After an action-packed first day at the Brooklyn 6G Summit, our roving reporter, Aron Heller, explores the highlights. Nokia President and CEO Pekka Lundmark’s opening keynote set the tone for a collaborative effort to build the metaverse and more. Nokia Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Nishant Batra laid out a technology vision for 2030. Industry pioneers, including NYU WIRELESS Founding … Read More
Welcome to the 2022 Brooklyn 6G Summit, one of the most distinguished events in the communications industry calendar. This event includes an opening keynote from our President and CEO Pekka Lundmark calling for a collaborative approach to the metaverse and an opening address from Nokia Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Nishant Batra and NYU Wireless Founding Director Theodore (Ted) Rappaport. … Read More
Establishing and operating a cellular network in outer space is no simple matter. It requires taking already complicated technologies and adjusting them to otherworldly conditions. That’s the enormous undertaking of Nokia Bell Labs, which, along with NASA, is seeking to establish the first such network on the Moon. In previous blog posts, we examined the challenges of deploying an LTE/4G network on the … Read More
Episode 8 of “Defense Matters” focuses on the cyber and its complex reach into our lives. Host Aron Heller speaks with Erez Kreiner, a former director of the Cyber Division of Israel’s Shin Bet security service and currently a senior research fellow at the Insitute for Counterterrorism at Reichman University. The two examine the prominent role that cyber plays in today’s … Read More
Nokia Bell Labs is boldly going where no one has gone before, building the first-ever LTE/4G network on the Moon. Working with NASA, Nokia aims to demonstrate how commercially available cellular technologies can be used and adapted for future space exploration and pave the way to a sustainable human presence on the Moon. But it’s not the first time that … Read More
Episode 7 of “Defense Matters” focuses on Saudi Arabia. Host Aron Heller speaks with Prof. Uzi Rabi, PhD, Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for the Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, about the Israel’s relations with Saudi Arabia and potential future normalization. Prof. Rabi and Heller discuss the Kingdom’s vital role as the lynchpin of the … Read More
The Bennett government collapsed because of baseless fearmongering, a tribal devotion to Likud and a cult of personality surrounding its leader on trial for corruption. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel Throughout the year-long tenure of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s unity government, there has been a common refrain coming from supposed Israeli hardliners. This was a dangerous experiment … Read More
Episode 6 of “Defense Matters” focuses on the upcoming Biden visit to the Middle East and what it means for Israel and the region. Host Aron Heller speaks with Helit Barel, a security expert on US-Israel relations, the former Director at the Israeli National Security Council, a founding member of Forum Dvorah, Women in Foreign Policy and National Security, and … Read More
Episode 5 of “Defense Matters” focuses on the current status of relations between Israel and Turkey. Host Aron Heller talks to Dr. Gallia Lindenstrauss, an expert on Turkey and a Senior Research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. They review the recent history of the two countries, discuss the impact of Turkish President Erdoğan, … Read More
Episode 4 of “Defense Matters” tries to figure out why Israel always seems to be on the losing end of global public opinion. We will review recent crises, such as the deadly shooting of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and its aftermath, to see how Israel communicates them to the world – or, often times, how it miscommunicates them. Host … Read More
Episode 3 of “Defense Matters” looks at the seemingly new era in the Middle East. Israel now has open relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and others, and the Palestinian issue seems passe. And yet, we still have rocket attacks from Gaza, terrorism on Israeli streets and the same, persistent tensions within the Old City of Jerusalem, restricted access to … Read More
How an awkward German refugee helped liberate southern Israel in the 1948 war of independence. Published in Tablet Magazine. It was a crucial turning point in Israel’s fight for survival. After ten days of intense fighting, the warring parties agreed on July 18 to the second, and final, cease-fire of the 1948 Mideast war. The ensuing three months would prove … Read More
Episode 2 of “Defense Matters” focuses on the recent wave of terror attacks in Israel, after the deadliest month of nationalist violence in years. The stabbing and shooting attacks in Beer-Sheba, Hadera, Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv were all very different, but the one common thread was that the perpetrators were all lone attackers who acted by themselves without any … Read More
The country’s current reality doesn’t merit the panicked reaction to a recent wave of attacks. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel Anytime Israel endures a spate of terrorist attacks the country seems to digress into a sad, visceral ritual. The latest manifestation has just played out in response to the three deadly attacks that killed 11 people within a … Read More
Episode 1 of “Defense Matters” focused on the war in Ukraine and discussed the fighting on the ground, the technology involved, the cyber war, the post-Cold War military balance that is currently unfolding – and, of course, the Israeli angle, its mediation efforts, and how all of this is tied to the Iran nuclear deal. Host Aron Heller’s first guest … Read More