Brigadier General (IDF, ret.) Michael Herzog is an International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Senior Fellow at BICOM and the Jewish People Policy Institute. General Herzog served in the IDF until 2010 including as head of the IDF Strategic Planning Division and as senior military aide and chief of staff for four defense ministers. Since 1993, Herzog has actively participated in nearly all of Israel’s peace negotiations with the Palestinian, Syrians and Jordanians, including in the last round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations (2013-2014).