Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and long-time senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, teaches political science at Columbia University, New York University, and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy (2012) and Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change (Oxford, 2018 and Modan Press in Hebrew). Freilich is the senior editor at the Israel Journal for Foreign Affairs, has published numerous academic articles and over 170 op-eds, and appears frequently on US, Israeli and international TV and radio stations.