IESI focuses on economic-security questions that sit between traditional institutional boundaries: economics and national security, public policy and private capital, domestic resilience and international cooperation.
The Israel Economic Security Initiative examines the economic foundations of Israel’s security and the strategic relationships that sustain them.
Our purpose is to improve understanding of structural economic risks and opportunities, connect relevant institutions around them, and identify areas where practical cooperation can strengthen Israel’s resilience, strategic freedom of action and capacity for long-term growth.
Economic power determines more than prosperity.
It affects whether strategic industries can produce under pressure, whether essential goods remain available, whether capital continues to flow, whether infrastructure absorbs disruption, whether governments retain fiscal room to act and whether international relationships create leverage or vulnerability.
Israel’s economy combines exceptional technological and commercial strengths with unusually high levels of specialisation and external integration.
The relevant question is not whether that model should change. It is where concentration creates material exposure, where diversification is worth its cost, and where Israel’s existing economic strengths can be converted into greater strategic resilience and influence.
A claim should be specific enough to test. Figures should carry a source and a date. Uncertainty should be stated rather than hidden.
IESI begins with the problem, not with a predetermined institutional response. Research, convening or practical cooperation is useful only when the underlying question warrants it.
Some of the most useful information about economic constraints sits with people who cannot productively discuss it in public. IESI uses small working discussions where candid exchange materially improves the work.
Analysis matters when there is an identifiable recipient, decision or institutional pathway through which better information can change an outcome.
IESI is non-partisan. Its work is not directed by party politics in Israel, the United States or elsewhere.
IESI is not a consultancy and does not sell research conclusions.
IESI is not a news organization and does not organize its work around the daily media cycle.
The objective is durable analysis of questions with strategic economic consequence.