Brigadier General (ret.) Shlomo Brom, a thirty-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, is currently a guest scholar at the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC, where his research focuses on Israeli national security, Palestinian statehood, and the future of Israel’s relations with neighboring Arab states. He most recently served as senior research associate at the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Brom was deputy national security adviser under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and has served as director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Israel Defense Force’s General Staff and as the Israeli defense attaché in the Republic of South Africa. Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Brom participated in peace negotiations with Syria, Jordan, and the Palestinians. He also represented Israel in multilateral talks on Arms Control and Regional Security. In 2002–03, he was involved in the Geneva initiative, including the drafting of the security provisions. The author of numerous articles about Israeli strategic and diplomatic issues, Mr. Brom is a member of the Council on Peace and Security, a nongovernmental advisory body that brings together leading Israeli national security and intelligence figures.
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Brigadier General (ret.) Shlomo Brom, a thirty-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, is currently a guest scholar at the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC, where his research focuses on Israeli national security, Palestinian statehood, and the future of Israel’s relations with neighboring Arab states. He most recently served as senior research associate at the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University . . . full bio