Yaakov Nagel

Prof. Yaakov Nagel

Visiting-professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (From 2017) in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, manager of the Science and Technology Center of Defense.

Senior Fellow at the FDD.


40 years of service in Israel’s Security Forces (IDF, IMOD and Prime Minister Office).

National Security Advisor for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and acting Head of Israel’s National Security Council, 2016-2017. Deputy Chief of Israel’s National Security Council, 2011-2015.


Deputy Science Chief of DDR&D and acting Chief of R&D at IMOD, 2001-2011.

Variety of technological and management positions in 8200, 1980-1996

Head of the ‘Nagel committee’ that recommended on the development of the ‘Iron Dome’ in 2007. In 2016 he signed in the name of Israel the 38-billion-dollar US aid agreement. Led Israel’s specialist team that conducted the conversations with the superpowers during the discussions on the nuclear agreement in years 2013-2015

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