Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Israel Insider with Ashley Perry

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

3:00p.m. Eastern Time

Can Netanyahu’s minority government survive? Can it achieve a Gaza ceasefire and additional normalization agreements?

Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as adviser to Israel’s minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in 2009-15, and has also worked with Israel’s Ministers of Intelligence, Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy, Water and Infrastructure, Defense, Tourism, Internal Security, and Immigrant Absorption and as an advisor to The Negev Forum. Originally from the U.K., he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a B.A. from University College London and an M.A. from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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