Name: The Israel–Iran 12 Day War: Tracing the Road to Conflict
Start: 2026-01-29T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-29T17:30:00+00:00
Location: King's Building - King's College London

$The Israel\u2013Iran 12 Day War: Tracing the Road to Conflict$

The talk explains how Israel’s nuclear dominance strategy and Iran’s deterrence efforts turned a shadow conflict into the 12-day war.
About this Event

Speaker: Or (Ori) Rabinowitz
Israel’s long-standing effort to preserve its regional nuclear monopoly has been shaping its confrontation with Iran and other regional nuclear proliferators for decades. By situating Israel’s counter-proliferation strategies and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear deterrence within a shared historical trajectory, this talk will explain how a persistent shadow conflict evolved into open confrontation, detailing the dynamics that laid the groundwork for the 12-day Israel–Iran war.

About the speaker

Or (Ori) Rabinowitz, a Chevening scholar, is a tenured Senior Lecturer at the International Relations Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. As of September 2022, she is a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s CISAC. Her research interests include nuclear proliferation, intelligence studies, and Israeli-American relations, and she holds a PhD in Department of War Studies from King’s College London, an MA in Security Studies, and an LLB in Law from Tel-Aviv University. She was awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including two personal research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation. In 2020, she was a member of the Young Academic Forum of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.