Debate with Former Saudi head of intelligence and former Israeli head of military intelligence

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) hosted the first public panel discussion on May 26 in Brussels between a former Saudi head of intelligence and a former Israeli head of military intelligence. This conversation addressed the most pressing foreign and security policy issues currently facing the Middle East including the future of the Middle East Peace Process, the impact of a potentially nuclear Iran on the region, and the conflict in Syria.

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Speakers
HRH Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh
General Amos Yadlin, Director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv

Moderator
David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post

His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal is the youngest son of the late King Faisal. He was the director of the General Intelligence of Saudi Arabia from 1979 to 2001 and served as the ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2007. His Royal Highness is the chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and has given many public lectures about relations between the Saudi Arabia and the West.

Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin began his career with the Israeli Air Force as a fighter pilot. He served as the deputy commander of the Israeli Airforce and was appointed the rank of major general in 2002. After serving as Israel’s military attaché in Washington D.C. from 2004 to 2006, General Yadlin was named head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. Following his retirement in 2010, Yadlin joined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as a Kay Fellow and was appointed director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies.

David Ignatius’ twice-weekly column on global politics, economics, and international affairs began appearing on The Washington Post‘s op-ed page in 1999. Prior to becoming a columnist for the newspaper, Ignatius was the assistant managing editor of business news. Before joining The Post in 1986, Ignatius spent ten years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covered the steel industry, the U.S. Justice Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Senate, and was the Middle East chief diplomatic correspondent.

Location
Hotel Sofitel Brussels Europe, Paul Henri Spaak Room, 1st floor
Place Jourdan 1, 1040 Brussels, Belgium