The Israel National Defense College (INDC) Visits Sapir College

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, The Israel National Defense College (INDC) came to Sapir. The group included high ranking officers from the IDF, government and foreign services, as part of their two day research visit to Israel's south. 

The INDC's prestigious program offers Israel's senior national security leadership and their peers in foreign services, advanced and intensive training, along with a M.A. degree in Political Science from Haifa University.

Led by Professor Yossi Ben-Artzi, academic director of Israel's National Security Colleges, participants toured the campus, saw the security measures in place, and met with College President Professor Shai Feldman, former director of Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (renamed−INSS) and the founding director of Brandies University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies. 

President Feldman gave the officers an in depth briefing on the geopolitical situation with a special emphasis on their research topic: The Impact of Personal Security Issues on Development of the Negev. He also shared his own experiences of leading Sapir, Israel's largest public college that is located on the border with Gaza, and his personal thoughts as a resident of Sderot.  

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