Forum of Strategic Dialogue

Mission

ELNET’s Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD) organizes and facilitates high-level strategic dialogues between Europe and Israel, focusing on the major geopolitical issues facing both parties and on Israeli-European relations. The FSD provides a unique platform for “Track 1.5” dialogues involving governmental and non-governmental participants in brainstorming and exchanges that go beyond the constraints of formal inter-governmental dialogues.

Goals

  • To promote an in-depth dialogue between Israeli and European officials and experts in the fields of national security and foreign policy
  • To enhance mutual understanding and advance joint interests
  • To establish professional ties and personal relations

Dialogues

ELNET established a total of 12 strategic dialogues. The first Strategic Dialogue, between France and Israel, was launched by ELNET in 2010. The success of this event led to collaboration with additional prestigious European and Israeli think tanks and governmental institutions, and to the establishment of the FSD in 2013.

Today, the FSD carries out annual Israeli-European bilateral dialogues with key countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain. The FSD has also established multilateral dialogues, including with the EU, NATO, the US-Europe-Israel Trilateral Strategic Dialogue, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Europe-Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Forum.

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