IESI is an independent institute focused on Israel’s economic security: the economic capacity, strategic relationships and institutional choices that shape resilience, freedom of action and long-term growth.
Economic security is the part of national security built in ordinary times: through trade relationships, industrial capacity, infrastructure, capital formation, fiscal choices and access to critical goods and technologies.
Israel is a small, open and highly specialised economy. That specialisation is a source of exceptional strength. It also creates concentrations that matter under stress.
IESI examines where those concentrations create strategic exposure, where existing strengths can create greater leverage, and where cooperation with the United States and other allied nations can strengthen both resilience and growth.
Independent analysis of the economic conditions that shape Israel’s long-term security, resilience and strategic position.
Private working discussions bringing together relevant perspectives from government, finance, industry, research and strategic affairs.
Identifying areas where research, institutional coordination or allied cooperation can move a clearly defined problem.
Economic-security debates often begin with broad claims about dependence, resilience or isolation.
IESI starts one level deeper.
Where a dependency can be measured, it can be reduced, diversified, hedged or accepted deliberately rather than by default.
Critical inputs, defence-industrial depth, supplier concentration and the capacity to sustain strategic production.
Export concentration, preferential access, sanctions exposure and the resilience of commercial relationships under political pressure.
The financing of strategic industries, foreign capital dependence, investment screening and access to long-term allied capital.
Energy security, ports, shipping routes, water, critical infrastructure and the systems through which disruption reaches the domestic economy.
The economic foundations required to sustain a higher security burden while preserving investment, participation, competitiveness and growth.
Economic cooperation with the United States and other allied nations, regional integration, strategic technology relationships and the use of economic strength to reinforce common interests.
IESI research is built around specific questions, traceable sources and evidence proportionate to the claim.
Initial work is focused on the structural dependencies and strategic relationships that most directly affect Israel’s economic resilience.
Mapping concentration across major export categories and destination markets, and examining where exposure is strategically significant.
Examining port concentration, shipping-route exposure and the transmission of logistics disruption into the wider economy.
IESI convenes small, substantive working discussions around questions where different institutions hold different parts of the answer.
The governing question is simple:
Where can IESI make a practical, meaningful contribution to Israel’s economic security?
Participation is selective. The objective is not public positioning. It is to identify what matters, challenge assumptions and determine where further research or cooperation can produce a useful result.
IESI works with people and institutions interested in the economic foundations of Israel’s long-term security and in the allied relationships that strengthen them.
For research, convening, institutional cooperation or support enquiries: