“The possibility of Syria presenting a conventional threat to Israel in the next 10 or even 20 years is not high,” says researcher Assaf Orion.

The Justice Ministry’s legal adviser concluded that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara faces a potential conflict of interest in the affair.

The problems Israel has been forced to solve—detecting low-flying drones in crowded airspace, distinguishing friendly from hostile platforms, and closing the kill chain quickly—are now confronting European governments.

“There are about 300,000 people who are actually responsible for keeping Israel in the developed world in terms of all the more advanced sectors of the economy,” Dan Ben-David noted.

Ankara “is trying to acquire a diplomatic status that will allow it to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more directly in favor of the Palestinians,” says Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak.

The country is a proven innovation hub with global reach in cybersecurity and defense technology, yet it has lagged in national-scale investment.

The choice of which countries form the backbone of the force may determine whether the ISF becomes a viable mechanism for postwar stabilization, or another diplomatic experiment doomed by conflicting agendas.

The clans are “substantial, influential players that control hundreds if not thousands of enforcers.”

Rivalry with the US sees Beijing seizing the Hamas war as an opportunity to expand its diplomatic influence and reshape global opinion in its favor.

“As Israel increasingly recognizes the strategic importance of its maritime domain, the navy’s role and influence have grown, albeit gradually.”