Intelligence and the Israeli National Security- 2016
Brig. General (Res.) Ephraim Lapid
Course Description:
The Intelligence Community is an integral part of national security. The main objectives of Intelligence are to provide effective, timely early warning before any threat to the interests of the country may emerge, and to supply the best possible information to support Government Agencies and combat units in their operations.
The Intelligence Community is comprised of major three agencies (both civilian and military) that operate in close coordination in order to carry out its missions:Aman, the military intelligence, Mossad – the external intelligence and ISA - Shabak – the Israeli Security Agency.
To do so it utilizes the synergies of different units. These include in the military intelligence a large unit for national intelligence analysis and several units for collection, such as SIGINT, HUMINT, VISINT and OSINT. Other functions of intelligence are in the Air and Navy services and in the regional commands.
Course Subjects:
1. Intelligence in the Israeli National Security
2. Perspectives of National Security in Other Countries
3. The Defense System and the Intelligence Community
4. The Military Intelligence
5. Intelligence during the Wars 1948-1973
6. Coping with Terror
7. Cyber as a new challenge to Intelligence
8. The Mossad
9. I.S.A. – Israel Security Agency (Shabak)
10. Homeland & Internal Security
11. Intelligence and media
12. Intelligence in a Democratic Society
13. Summary – Intelligence & National Security
Course Requirements:
- Reading assignments, as indicated below.
- Participation in class, including discussion of reading - 10% of the final grade.
- Individual Final Essay: (10-15 pages) On a pre-approved topic, in consultation with the lecturer. The essay will be written according to the regulations of academic research (i.e. footnotes, bibliography etc.).Printed- font 12, 1.5 -spaced.
Students will give a 25-minute summary presentation & discussion of a further 20 minutes of their work in class.
- The presentations will take place during lessons 10-13 according to pre-designated times.– 60%of the final grade.
- Examination- 30%of the final grade
Required Book
Gilboa, A., and Lapid, E.,Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 2011.
Lessons and Articles
1. Intelligence from the Perspective of Israeli National Security
Pascovich, E, "Military Intelligence and Controversial Political Issues: The Unique Case of the Israeli Military Intelligence", ", Intelligence and National Security, Vol.29, No.2, March 2014 , pp.227-261.
Yadlin, A., "IDI Faces the Challenges of Tomorrow", Israel's Silent Defender,
Pp.6-12.
2. Perspectives of National Security in Other Countries
Booth, K., "Security and global transformation", in C. H. Hughes and L. Y. Meng (ed.), Security Studies: A reader, London and New York: Routledge, Tylor &Francis Group, 2011, pp. 398- 405.
Buzan, B., "The national security problem in international relations", in C. H.Hughes and L. Y. Meng (ed.), Security Studies: A reader, London and New York: Routledge, Tylor & Francis Group, 2011, pp. 18- 23.
Shpiro, S., "Shadowy Interest: West German- Israeli Intelligence and Military cooperation, 1957- 82", ", in C. Jones & T. T. Petersen (eds.), Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies, London: Hurst & Company, 2013, pp. 169- 188.
3. I.D.F. – The Defense System and the Intelligence Community
Lapid, E., "Collecting Information in Preparation",Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 65- 70.
Pollak, E., "VISINT in Israeli Intelligence", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 236- 248.
Shabtai, S., "OSINT in the service of Intelligence", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 217- 235.
4. Military Intelligence
Gazit, S., "Problems with Collective Thinking"Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 316- 320.
Geffen, H., "SIGINT in the Service of Intelligence", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 197- 202.
Goren, S., "HUMINT in the Service of Intelligence", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 203- 206.
Pascovich, E, "Intelligence Assessment Regarding Social Developments: The Israeli Experience", International Journal of Intelligence Counterintelligence, Vol. 26, 2012, pp. 84- 114.
Sheffy, Y.," Confronting Cairo: Israeli Perceptions of Nasser's Egypt, 1960- 6", in C. Jones & T. T. Petersen (eds.), Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies, London: Hurst & Company, 2013, pp. 103-120.
5. Intelligence during the Wars 1948-1973
Gilboa, A., "A comparison of the Intelligence between Two Wars: The Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973)", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 71- 75.
6. Coping with Terror
Ganor, B., "Dilemmas and Challenges for the Israeli Intelligence Community in fighting Terrorism", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 154- 164.
Kober, A., "From Heroic to Post heroic Warfare: Israel's Way of War in
Asymmetrical Conflicts", Armed Forces& Society, August 2013,pp. 1- 5.
Lavie, E., "Intelligence Challenges in the Palestinian Arena", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 134- 145.
Zohar, G., "Intelligences for Operation Yonatan (Entebbe) 1976", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 87- 94.
7. Intelligence & Technology
O'hanlon, M., "Technology and war", in C. H. Hughes and L. Y. Meng (ed.),
Security Studies: A reader, London and New York: Routledge, Tylor & Francis Group, 2011, pp. 240- 245.
Tirosh, S., "Technology in the Service of Intelligence", ", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 187- 196.
8. The Mossad
Avivi, S., "Founding the Mossad", ",Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 30-36.
Dagan, M., " The Mossad: Vision and Reality", ", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 13-15.
Halevy, E., "The Mossad", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 277- 294.
9. I.S.A. – Israel Security Agency (Shabak)
Ben-Tzur, B.,"Counterintelligence", Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 258- 266.
Diskin, Y., "The Israel Security Agency: Challenges and Vision",Israel's Silent Defender, pp. 16- 20.
Glaser, E., "Founding the Israel Security Agency", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 37- 45.
Pascovich, E., "Not above the law: Shin Bet's (Israel Security Agency) democratization and legalization process", Journal of Intelligence History, 2014,
pp. 1-16.
10. Homeland & Internal Security
Tzur, D., "Operational Demands Placed on Intelligence", Israel's Silent Defender,
pp. 295- 301.
11. Freedom of Speech and the Intelligence Community
Magen, C., "Mossad directors and the media: a Historical perspective", Journal of Intelligence History, Vol.13, No.2, June 2014, pp. 144- 160.
12. Intelligence in a Democratic Society
Amit, M., "Relationship between the Decision Makers and the Head of Intelligence",Israel's Silent Defender, pp.302- 308.
13. Summary – Intelligence & National Security
Buzan, B., "Security in the twenty – first century", in C. H. Hughes and L. Y. Meng (ed.), Security Studies: A reader, London and New York: Routledge, Tylor &Francis Group, 2011, pp. 365- 374.
Wolfers, A., "National Security as an ambiguous symbol?" in C.H. Hughes and L.Y. Meng (eds.), Security Studies: A Reader, London and New York: Routledge, Tylor& Francis Group, 2011, pp. 5- 10.
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