The man answering the phone on the other end of the line doesn’t seem very talkative. Chuck Freilich cannot hide the discouragement he feels about the current situation in his country. He guarantees that he did not feel “panic” when he woke up in the early hours of October 7 and saw the first notifications on his cell phone reporting the Hamas attack in Israel, even though his family was there, more than ten thousand kilometers away. distance. the place where he is, in New York City. But he recognizes that the urge to return took over him.
Currently teaching Political Science at Columbia University, all of his professional experience is, however, within the structure of the State of Israel. He began working as an analyst at the Israeli Ministry of Defense in 1993. Less than ten years later, he was already deputy national security advisor. And although he emphasizes that the positions he held were those of “public servants” and not political appointments, Freilich contributed throughout this period to the making of several important decisions.
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Source: Observadora
