Yossi Alpher is a former Mossad official and former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. His 2015 book Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies won two awards in Israel. His latest book is Winners and Losers in the ‘Arab Spring’: Profiles in Chaos.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent address to the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu declared himself open to peace with the Palestinians, championed the prospects of normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and warned of the dangers of AI.