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Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Gaza War

When: September 16, 2024 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Beachwood, OH
Contact: Jaclyn Szaruga at jszaruga@jewishcleveland.org
Summary: A conversation with Nimrod Novik, former policy advisor to the late Shimon Peres and Special Ambassador of the State of Israel.

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Nimrod Novik is a member of the executive committee for Commanders for Israel's Security (CIS). Novik will provide insight into his work with CIS, an Israeli non-partisan movement of ex-senior security officials that aims to promote a regional diplomatic solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to normalize relations with moderate Arab states.

Novik will also share his expertise on the challenges and opportunities facing Israel in the wake of the Gaza war.

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Dr. Nimrod Novik was the policy advisor to the late Prime Minister Shimon Peres, a special ambassador of the State of Israel, and an advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Commanders for Israel's Security (CIS), the Israel Fellow at the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), and a past chair and current senior fellow at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF).

Employing a network of security and diplomatic contacts in the Middle East and beyond, he has long been involved in back-channel diplomacy. Over the past months, he and his colleagues as well as regional partners and others, have contributed to the design of detailed plans and mechanisms for the Gaza ‘morning after’.

Before joining the Peres Prime Minister’s Office, he taught at both the University of Pennsylvania and at Tel Aviv University and engaged in research and analysis of Middle East regional dynamics, Israel’s security strategy and US-Israel relations.

Address

Mandel Jewish Community Center - Stonehill Auditorium

26001 South Woodland Road

Beachwood, OH 44122

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