On August 14, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum consisting of two separate, sequential video conversations: one with Gen. Khalil Helou of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and another with Lt. Col. Sarit Zehavi and Brig. Gen. Assaf Orion of the Israel Defense Forces. Helou served in the LAF Rangers Regiment and the hostage rescue force of the military intelligence services; he is currently an associate professor at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. Zehavi served with the IDF Intelligence Corps and later founded Alma, an institute focusing on security challenges along the Israel-Lebanon border. Orion is The Washington Institute’s Rueven International Fellow, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, and former head of the IDF Strategic Planning Division. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks.
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