Ofir Winter

Egypt and Israel: From Peace between Leaders and Armies to Peace between Peoples

2019 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies Udi Dekel

March 27, 2019 15:35 pm

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter and Udi Dekel Original Link: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-israel-peace-leaders-armies-peace-peoples/ March 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. This signed agreement affirmed peace as the strategic choice of both countries, and in turn distanced them from the...

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Beyond Energy: The Significance of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum

2019 Culture, Education and Development Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Gallia Lindenstrauss Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

February 03, 2019 15:44 pm

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Source: The Institute for National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter and Gallia Lindenstrauss Original Link: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/beyond-energy-significance-eastern-mediterranean-gas-forum/ The Energy Ministers of Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority met in Cairo in mid-January 2019 to discuss the establishment of the Eastern...

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Culture, Education and Development Expert Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai

January 29, 2018 21:41 pm

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Dr. Ofir Winter, a research fellow at INSS, holds a PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His doctoral research focused on Egypt and Jordan’s quest to legitimize their peace treaties with Israel between the years 1973-2001. He is the author of the book Zionism in Arab Discourses

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The War on Terrorism in Sinai: A Watershed?

2017 Egypt Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Institute For National Security Studies Yoram Schweitzer

November 29, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Yoram Schweitzer, Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/war-terrorism-sinai-watershed/ The November 24, 2017 attack on al-Rawda mosque in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, apparently by Wilayat Sinai, a proxy of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Egypt, was the most deadly terrorist attack Egypt has ever...

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The IMF Egyptian Assistance Program, One Year On

2017 Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Nizan Feldman Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

November 06, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Nizan Feldman, Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/imf-egyptian-assistance-program-one-year/ The financial assistance program to Egypt by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), approved in November 2016, has scored important achievements, even as it has presented Cairo with complicated economic and...

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Egypt’s Challenging Shift from Counterterrorism to Counterinsurgency in the Sinai

2017 Meirav Malter Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Institute For National Security Studies

August 24, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter, Meirav Malter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypts-challenging-shift-counterterrorism-counterinsurgency-sinai/ Since June 2017, Egypt has been dealing with a signficant rise in terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and inside Egypt by Sinai Province, the Islamic State affiliate. Improving the...

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Israel’s Empty Embassy in Cairo

2017 Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Institute For National Security Studies

July 03, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-empty-embassy-cairo/ Since the normalization of relations between Israel and Egypt, the only time that the Israeli presence in Cairo was cut off completely came in late 2016, when the Israeli ambassador and his staff returned to Israel due to security warnings...

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Egypt’s War on Terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula: Alliance with Tribes, Partnership with Israel?

2017 Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai The Institute For National Security Studies Yoram Schweitzer

June 15, 2017 05:53 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Yoram Schweitzer, Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypts-war-terrorism-sinai-peninsula-alliance-tribes-partnership-israel/ Egypt’s failure in fighting the Salafi-jihadi terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula and its movement into other parts of the country had led to a new stage in the fight against terror...

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Egypt’s Advance toward a New Social Contract

2016 Democracy and Politics Economy Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

November 20, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypts-advance-toward-a-new-social-contract/ On November 11, 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a loan of $12 billion to Egypt over three years, to help it undertake an ambitious reform plan that should enable it to overcome years of structural problems...

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Not Just Sports: Mixed Sentiments in Egyptian Discourse about Israel

2016 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Omer Einav Orit Perlov Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

August 18, 2016 03:37 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Omer Einav, Orit Perlov, Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/not-just-sports-mixed-sentiments-in-egyptian-discourse-about-israel/ The match on the judo mat between Israeli Ori Sasson and Egyptian Islam el-Shehaby in the 2016 Olympic Games went beyond sports. The question that arose before the match of...

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Egypt and Turkey following the Failed Coup: The Interrupted Thaw

2016 Egypt Foreign Relations Gallia Lindenstrauss Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

August 02, 2016 03:39 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter, Gallia Lindenstrauss Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-and-turkey-following-the-failed-coup-the-interrupted-thaw/ A resolution to the crisis in Egypt-Turkey relations, which recently seemed a viable possibility, is no longer visible on the horizon, at least for the near future. The coarse...

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An Egyptian Take on the “New Middle East”

2016 Economy Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Institute For National Security Studies

June 07, 2016 05:53 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/an-egyptian-take-on-the-new-middle-east/ The voices of peace that were sounded recently in Egypt, which emerged from the inner circles of the Egyptian regime and beyond, attest to the fact that new winds are blowing in the Land of the Nile regarding true opportunities...

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