Barbara Opall-Rome

Opall-Rome is Israel bureau chief for Defense News. She has been covering U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation, Mideast security and missile defense since May 1988. She lives north of Tel Aviv. Visit her website at www.opall-rome.com.


  • IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer
    IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer

    Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Israel’s largest defense exporter, is courting India, its leading trade partner, with a spectrum of incentives aimed at preserving its edge against Russian, American and other rival arms suppliers.

  • Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy
    Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy

    With Israeli elections just five weeks away, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hardline rivals are ratcheting up security-centric rhetoric in their bid for the role as strongman-in-chief against the raging threat of radical Islam.

  • Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach
    Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach

    As Israel grapples with an arc of threats that emanate up and around the Arabian Sea, an Internet Protocol (IP)-supported communications network is augmenting its ability to command and control complex operations at its immediate borders and far beyond.

  • Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net
    Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net

    Israel’s Homefront Command is accelerating plans to field a national emergency response C4I network ahead of threatened retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah for last week’s aerial assassination strikes in Syria.

  • Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace
    Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, spoke here Monday of their shared commitment to peace and regional security, yet diverged in the hot-button issues they chose to flag as obstacles to realizing common goals.

  • Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility
    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility

    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility; Japanese Prime Minister and Delegation Visit Jerusalem

  • Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel
    Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel

    Leaks from last summer’s Gaza war dramatize the forces at play here when democracy and commitment to international law appear to clash with obligations to those fighting on the fog-laden front lines.

  • Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network
    Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network

    Israel’s Defense Ministry has awarded Elbit Systems rights to develop the next generation of the Israeli Army’s digital C4I network under a series of multiyear contracts estimated at $117 million.

  • Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority
    Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority

    Israeli military officers and experts are warning against funding freezes and other punitive acts against the Palestine Authority (PA) that they insist will jeopardize security coordination with Ramallah.

  • People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast
    People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast

    The continued shifting of the political sands in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, greater industrial development among the Arabian Gulf states and an Israel always preparing for the next possible conflict will help shape 2015’s outlook in the Middle East.

  • IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer
    IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer

    Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Israel’s largest defense exporter, is courting India, its leading trade partner, with a spectrum of incentives aimed at preserving its edge against Russian, American and other rival arms suppliers.

  • Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy
    Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy

    With Israeli elections just five weeks away, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hardline rivals are ratcheting up security-centric rhetoric in their bid for the role as strongman-in-chief against the raging threat of radical Islam.

  • Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach
    Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach

    As Israel grapples with an arc of threats that emanate up and around the Arabian Sea, an Internet Protocol (IP)-supported communications network is augmenting its ability to command and control complex operations at its immediate borders and far beyond.

  • Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net
    Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net

    Israel’s Homefront Command is accelerating plans to field a national emergency response C4I network ahead of threatened retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah for last week’s aerial assassination strikes in Syria.

  • Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace
    Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, spoke here Monday of their shared commitment to peace and regional security, yet diverged in the hot-button issues they chose to flag as obstacles to realizing common goals.

  • Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility
    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility

    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility; Japanese Prime Minister and Delegation Visit Jerusalem

  • Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel
    Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel

    Leaks from last summer’s Gaza war dramatize the forces at play here when democracy and commitment to international law appear to clash with obligations to those fighting on the fog-laden front lines.

  • Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network
    Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network

    Israel’s Defense Ministry has awarded Elbit Systems rights to develop the next generation of the Israeli Army’s digital C4I network under a series of multiyear contracts estimated at $117 million.

  • Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority
    Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority

    Israeli military officers and experts are warning against funding freezes and other punitive acts against the Palestine Authority (PA) that they insist will jeopardize security coordination with Ramallah.

  • People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast
    People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast

    The continued shifting of the political sands in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, greater industrial development among the Arabian Gulf states and an Israel always preparing for the next possible conflict will help shape 2015’s outlook in the Middle East.

  • IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer
    IAI Courts India with Offsets, Tech Transfer

    Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Israel’s largest defense exporter, is courting India, its leading trade partner, with a spectrum of incentives aimed at preserving its edge against Russian, American and other rival arms suppliers.

  • Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy
    Israeli Leaders Embrace Obama-Style Strategy

    With Israeli elections just five weeks away, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hardline rivals are ratcheting up security-centric rhetoric in their bid for the role as strongman-in-chief against the raging threat of radical Islam.

  • Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach
    Israeli C4I Network Extends Special Ops Reach

    As Israel grapples with an arc of threats that emanate up and around the Arabian Sea, an Internet Protocol (IP)-supported communications network is augmenting its ability to command and control complex operations at its immediate borders and far beyond.

  • Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net
    Israel Fast Tracks Emergency Response Net

    Israel’s Homefront Command is accelerating plans to field a national emergency response C4I network ahead of threatened retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah for last week’s aerial assassination strikes in Syria.

  • Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace
    Abe, Netanyahu See Different Hurdles to Peace

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, spoke here Monday of their shared commitment to peace and regional security, yet diverged in the hot-button issues they chose to flag as obstacles to realizing common goals.

  • Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility
    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility

    Netanyahu Courts Asian Markets Amid European Hostility; Japanese Prime Minister and Delegation Visit Jerusalem

  • Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel
    Gaza War Leaks Stir Soul-Searching in Israel

    Leaks from last summer’s Gaza war dramatize the forces at play here when democracy and commitment to international law appear to clash with obligations to those fighting on the fog-laden front lines.

  • Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network
    Israel Launches Next-Generation C4I Network

    Israel’s Defense Ministry has awarded Elbit Systems rights to develop the next generation of the Israeli Army’s digital C4I network under a series of multiyear contracts estimated at $117 million.

  • Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority
    Israeli Officers Warn Against Punishing Palestine Authority

    Israeli military officers and experts are warning against funding freezes and other punitive acts against the Palestine Authority (PA) that they insist will jeopardize security coordination with Ramallah.

  • People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast
    People & Programs To Watch in 2015: Mideast

    The continued shifting of the political sands in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, greater industrial development among the Arabian Gulf states and an Israel always preparing for the next possible conflict will help shape 2015’s outlook in the Middle East.