Israeli politicians Dani Yatom and Yitzhak Ben Yisrael discuss the threat a nuclear Iran poses to the world.
Bio
Yitzhak Ben Yisrael
Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael is an Israeli military scientist, general and politician, currently the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and a Member of the Knesset for Kadima. He is the former head of the Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry, which he was appointed to in 1998, and at that point, elevated to the rank of Aluf (Res.).
Ben Yisrael is head of the Program for Defense Studies, the Curiel Center and the Tel Aviv Workshop for Science Technology and Security, and a lecturer at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas and at the School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. He holds several other positions.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is Executive Director at the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels. He previously taught Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
He holds a degree in Political Science from University of Bologna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in political theory from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1998 he is at Oxford.
His research focuses on Israeli domestic politics, specifically coalition and party politics, and elections, post-Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict (mainly the Oslo era), Europe's new anti-Semitism and European attitudes to the Middle East. He is currently finishing a book on Israel's electoral reforms in the 1990s.
Dani Yatom
Dani Yatom is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Labour. He was previously a Director of Mossad.
Yatom studied mathematics, physics and computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a BA. From 1963 to 1996 he served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked in the Sayeret Matkal anti-terrorism force, rising to the position of deputy commander, after which he moved to the Armor Corps and then became the head of the Israeli Central Command, ranked Major General. Between 1996 and 1998 he served as head of Mossad, and became a security advisor to then PM Ehud Barak.[1]
In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset on Labour's list, and served as head of the committee on foreign workers, as well as chairing the lobbies for enlisted soldiers and the West Bank barrier. He retained his seat in the 2006 elections and continues to serve as head of the West Bank barrier lobby.
As this is my first Post, perhaps an introduction is in order, my name is Alastair Carnegie, and I serve as Chaplain to The Lord High Constable and Knight Marshal of Scotland. Honorary Colonel of The R.M.P.T.A. I have served since 1971 with the Nuclear Division.
First may I congratulate the member of the audience who managed to put wide smiles onto glum faces. Bravo! Language is mankind's greatest friend, but careless words may become one's greatest enemy.
I fully concur with the assertion that weapons grade material production will lead rapidly to nuclear capability. There was a brief mention of Polonium 210 Neuton initiation. It is now public knowledge that Tritiated aqueous electrolysis of thin-film Bismuth Hydride produces transmutations of Bismuth to Polonium 210. The only benefit is the short half-life of Polonium 210, which "time-limits" the catastrophic impact of "Broken-Arrow" and "Empty-Quiver" incidents.
Israel must tread a critical path in the near future. essential to navigating this critical path, is retention of the moral high ground. The wide smiles, that clearly indicated pure hearts, was an encouraging sign that the speakers were still walking that critical path. Please keep smiling, and if you find circumstances make that difficult, please do not delay in requesting support from your friends. Shalom.
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