The Center for Strategic Dialogue

The Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College is a unique institute that applies innovative approaches to examine and tackle  different issues that are in controversy in forms of research and roundtable meetings for  finding  solutions to regional and global conflicts.

Our team is composed of leading academics alongside well-known personalities from the local and global economy and the  political arena, and people who have served as heads of the Israeli security forces.

The center is headed by Brig. Gen. (res.)  Dr. Efraim Sneh, a  medical doctor, former military officer and statesman. He was appointed chairman of the center after thirty-six years of service at all the important junctions in the Israeli military and political spheres. Other members of the center’s steering committee: Brig. Gen. (res.)  Baruch Spiegel; Dr. Yair Hirschfeld; Dr. Avner Barnea, Mrs. Aviva Palter; Journalist Henrique Cymerman; Brig. Gen. (res.)  Shimon Hefetz; Dr. Barry Feinstein; and Mrs. Esti Ofer. 

The main objectives of the Strategic Dialogue Center:

• Organizing international conferences to discuss current issues of the region and the neighboring countries, with the participation of leading academics, governmental experts alongside Israeli policymakers.
• Holding  round table sessions  with other thinktanks, and NGOs from neighboring countries, to promote a peaceful discourse in the Middle East.
• Summoning experts for meetings and discussions on relevant issues that arise in the strategy and security / public policy / social arena, while analyzing the relevant topics The conclusions of these meetings are often published in position papers that are sent to decision makers.