“Israel and Regime Change in Iran” with Efraim Inbar
Israel and Regime Change in Iran
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented Israel’s new national security strategy on October 18, he said Israel had adopted a policy of regime change in Iran, a goal no earlier Israeli security doctrine had named. Efraim Inbar, founder of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, will discuss why Jerusalem made that shift after the 2025 and 2026 wars with Iran, why the Islamic Republic has survived the U.S.-Israeli campaign and the U.S. naval blockade, and what it would take to bring the regime down, followed by audience questions.
Efraim Inbar is the founder and a senior researcher of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, which he headed from 2017 to 2025, and professor emeritus of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He directed the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies from 1991 to 2016 and has held visiting posts at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. His books include Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999) and Israel’s National Security (2008).
