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Colonel (res.) Udi Evental is a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy & Strategy (IPS) at the Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, where he also teaches policy planning. While in uniform for 25 years, Colonel Evental served as: head of the strategic planning unit of the political-military bureau of the Israeli Ministry of Defense; assistant for intelligence to the military secretary of the prime minister; intelligence attaché in Washington and elsewhere.
Colonel Evental holds an M.A. in the History of the Middle East and Islamic Culture from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris.
Israel's counter-Iran strategy: Significant accomplishments, but a negative trend
One of the first foreign policy decisions facing Israel’s new government will be if it wants to maintain or modify the policy spearheaded by Netanyahu to counter the United States’ determined effort to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran. Moreover, the new government needs to assess how successful the maximalist approach Israel has embraced since the negotiations between Iran and the great powers began about two decades ago has been, and to what extent it has pushed the international community to refrain from making concessions and compromises vis à vis Iran.
