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Contents
2020 Strategic Overview: Growing Challenges to Israel’s Current Strategy 2
Itai Brun and Itai Shapira 14
Chapter 1 18
The International System: Superpower Competition and Functional Difficulties 26
Assaf Orion, Eldad Shavit, Shahar Eilam, and Rotem Oreg 31
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Chapter 2 44
The Regional System: Struggling for the Shape of the Middle East 49
Sarah Feuer, Itai Brun, Gallia Lindenstrauss, Oded Eran, Yoram Schweitzer, Ofir Winter, Yoel Guzansky, Remi Daniel, 54
Eldad Shavit, and Ari Heistein
Chapter 3
Iran: Defiance and Audacity, alongside Internal Challenges
Sima Shine, Raz Zimmt, and Emily B. Landau
Chapter 4
The Northern Arena: Toward a Large-Scale Conflict
Udi Dekel, Carmit Valensi, and Orna Mizrahi
Chapter 5
The Palestinian System: Weakened and Close to Escalation
Udi Dekel, Noa Shusterman, and Anat Kurz
Chapter 6
Israeli Society: Challenges to Societal Resilience
Meir Elran, Carmit Padan, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Sason Hadad, Zipi Israeli, Shmuel Even, and Yehuda Ben Meir
Chapter 7
The Operational Environment: New Capabilities of the Radical Shiite Axis
Itai Brun and Itai Shapira
Conclusion: Net Assessment and Policy Recommendations for 2020
Amos Yadlin
