Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Chuck Freilich was Israel’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Foreign Affairs. Now a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center’s International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, his primary areas of expertise are U.S. Middle East policy and Israeli national security policy. He is currently writing a book on Israeli national security decision-making processes and teaches Political Science at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities. He also co-directs a Middle Eastern affairs consultancy.

Freilich was a senior analyst at the Israel Ministry of Defense, focusing on strategic affairs, policy advisor to a cabinet minister, and a delegate at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations. He has been the executive director of two nonprofit organizations, Israel’s Zahavi Association, dealing with lobbying, educational, and consumer programs on behalf of underprivileged families, and the Golda Meir Association in the United States. He served in the Israel Defense Forces for five years and is a reserve major.

Freilich earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Born in New York, he immigrated to Israel as a teenager.

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