Israeli CounterTerrorism Strategies

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Israeli Counter-Terrorism Strategies

• Fighting terrorism is like boxing
• You usually win by points.
• General Meir Dagan

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Goals

• Prevent terrorists from influencing national
  agenda
• Preserve the psychological resilience of civilian
  population
• Psychological and physical survival - existential

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Israeli Terrorism Brief History

• Aircraft hijacking of El Al in 1968
• Target progression of terrorism
• Airplanes
• Embassies
• Civilian targets buses markets, pedestrians
• Suicide terrorism Hizbollah Oct 23 1983
• First Intifada 1987 - 1993
• Second Intifada Sep. 2000

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Strategies

• Intelligence collection and analysis
• Military operations to disrupt terrorist
  infrastructure
• Commercial aviation security
• Chemical and biological attacks defense
• Strengthening of psychological endurance

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Intelligence Collection and Analysis

• Vigilance highly aware
• 80 of attacks are thwarted
• Investments are invisible
• Shin Bet Israel Security Agency
• Domestic intelligence, counterespionage, internal
  security, prevention of terrorist attacks
• Arab Affairs Division political subversion and
  surveillance
• Protection and Security Division government
  buildings and embassies, defense contractors,
  scientific installations, industrial plants, El
  Al
• Mossad Foreign Intelligence Agency
• Aman Military Intelligence Agency
• Undercover agents, local informants police
  operations
• Technology
• Explosives detection, eavesdropping and signals
  recovery, unmanned aerial vehicles

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Military Operations to Disrupt Terrorist
Infrastructure

• Israeli Defense Forces
• Air Force
• Navy
• Army
• Sayeret Matkal
• Frontier Police
• Duvdevan, Shimshon
• Israeli Police Force
• Yamam - 1974 - hostage rescue specialization of
  professionals

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Military Operations to Disrupt Terrorist
Infrastructure

• Minimize extent of terrorist activity and
  resulting damage
• Eliminate recruiters, leader, planners
• Assassination
• Eliminate information network
• Logistical support

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Commercial Aviation Security

• El Al national airline
• Security budget of 80 million
• 1985 Ben-Gurion International Airport assault
• Components
• Single access road checkpoint
• Plainclothes security officials
• Passenger screening system
• Psychological profiling - intelligence and
  observation
• High-tech security equipment -
• Luggage conciliation
• Invision
• Chemical sniffers
• Compression chamber
• Sky marshals
• Flight Guard - 1 mil per aircraft

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Chemical and Biological Attacks Defense

• Passive defense
• Civil defense program 1980s
• Free kit of gas mask, auto-injector containing
  nerve-agent antidotes
• IDF Home Front Command
• Sealed body in a sealed room
• New construction incorporates a protective room

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Strengthening of Psychological Endurance

• International Policy Institute for
  Counter-Terrorism
• Visits schools to immunize against the
  personalization of terror

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Defensive Security Fence

• Constructed under the Ministry of Defense as a
  strategic, defensive measure to combat terrorism
• Approved July 23, 2001

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IDF Low Intensive Conflict Conference 2004

• Land Forces Development
• Digitized Land Forces -200 mil program to
  modernize entire land forces
• Situational awareness
• Communications
• Navigation(GPS)
• Geographic Survey
• All-terrain fighting vehicles
• Infantry weapons
• Cornershot system
• Situational Orientation Systems

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IDF Low Intensive Conflict Conference 2004

• Door/wall breaching systems
• Unmanned systems
• Aerial vehicles
• Ground systems
• Precision attack
• Mortar munitions
• Missiles
• Integrated radar/surveillance

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Israel Export International Cooperation
Institute

• Security and safety companies
• 600
• Start-Ups involved in security and safety
• 50
• Exporting countries (2004)
• 300
• Non-defense/military related export
• 850 mil (20 increase expected per year)

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Segments of Israeli Counter-Terrorism Export

• Perimeter Security
• Consulting
• Barriers
• Sensors
• Video Motion Detector
• Access Control
• Tracking
• Surveillance
• Biometrics
• Integration
• Training
• IT Security
• Authentication
• Detectors

• Counter-Terrorism
• Consulting
• Training
• Weapons
• SWAT products
• Equipment
• Physical protection
• Communications
• CBRN/NBC
• Consulting
• Products
• Detectors
• Crisis Management
• Command/Control/Comm/Computers/Intelligence

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International Cooperation

• Athens Olympic Games - 12 companies generating
  200 mil
• Border Control EU
• Jails, stadiums, amusement parks, nuclear sites,
  critical infrastructure, private housing,
  airports, seaports, trains, federal sites
• HLS Masterkey IEICI
• Assist and promote Israeli companies in US and
  abroad

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International Education

• Institute for Counter-Terrorism Lauder School
  of Govt, Diplomacy and Strategy at the
  Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
• Executive Certificate Program in
  Counter-Terrorism Studies
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
  (JINSA)
• Flag and General Officers Trip to Israel
  (Admirals Generals)
• Nathan Golden Lectures in Middle East Security
• (Security Professionals)
• Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP)
• Gottesman Lecture Series (students in military
  academies and universities)