Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University) Served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs. Expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups. Orientalist and lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. Research Fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. ​He specialized, among other things, in researching the Hafez al-​Assad administration in Syria. Vice President "NEWSRAEL - Pro-Israeli Dynamic Feed". Board member of the Professors' Circle for Political and Economic Resilience. ​​Creator of the Palestinian "Emirates Plan" (also known as the "Eight State Solution") as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

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