Jonathan Schanzer
Operation Breaking Dawn - What Next’s for Gaza and Israel
Summary
A close examination of the 2022 Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), uncovering the key players and the long-term impact on the region.
Jonathan Schanzer
Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Centre on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft. Jonathan previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers. He has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum. Jonathan has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East, along with more than a dozen monographs and chapters for edited volumes. His newest book, Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War, challenges and corrects some of the wildly inaccurate news reported during the conflict. A sought-after public speaker, Jonathan earned his PhD from King’s College London. He speaks Arabic and Hebrew.
Carly Maisel
Carly Maisel is the global CEO of Kirsh Philanthropies.