Israeli Security
Threats and Counter Threats – Learning from Israeli Experience
In the pre-Covid Middle East, ISIS was still a major thorn in everyone’s side but it has since been pounded down in Syria where Russia has also been asserting itself.…
Read MoreSixteen Years of Predictive Profiling
Back in 2002, I was driving with a colleague to see a client in Palmdale, California, a couple hours’ drive outside of Los Angeles. This was only a few months…
Read MoreSecurity Attitudes in Israel
In Israel, security policy and procedures are well integrated into the fabric of its society. This manifests in a couple ways: There is a full acceptance of the fact of…
Read MoreThe Red Sea Diving Resort
Tales of crazy covert spy operations make great memoirs. Ex-Mossad agent Gad Shimron tells such a story about Operation Brothers, a mission that took place in the 1980s to extricate…
Read MoreGuns in Israel
Some people have the idea that in Israel, gun laws are very liberal. In fact, the very opposite is true. There are strict requirements to gun acquisition and ownership. Gun…
Read MoreNo Such Term as Active Shooter
The term Active Shooter is not used in Israel. That might seem surprising to hear, given the terrorist threats against that country. Although there is an ebb and flow in…
Read MoreBorder Security that Trumps
Some people are comparing Trump’s vision for a fence along the Mexico-U.S. border with the Security/Separation Fence that runs along the West Bank in Israel. A far better example that…
Read MoreThe Method to the Madness of Criminal Intent
Late in the summer of 2015, open source news reporting indicated that Chinese hackers may have been to blame for the breach of information at USIS, which is the major…
Read MoreTrump’s Homeland Security Efforts Fall Short
With any large influx of people or for that matters goods, our ability to control and identify the traffic is challenged. Through the decades, anyone involved in securing these flows…
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