Former Director General of the Ministry of Health continues to the next stop and joins the Institute for National Security Studies • "The last few months have proven that national resilience depends on the health system"
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Oren Ben Hakon
Moshe Bar-Siman Tov, the retiring director general of the Ministry of Health, has joined the Institute for National Security Studies headed by Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Yadlin, where he is to serve as a visiting researcher. Bar-Siman Tov is expected to lead the health system as an important and central component. Israel's national security and to conduct research and policy documents, in collaboration with senior researchers at the INS, which will be presented within the institute and submitted to the public and decision makers.
"I am happy to join the institute and I am glad that the institute is expanding its areas of research into the subject of health as well," said Moshe Bar-Siman Tov. "The last few months have taught us all that our national resilience depends on the proper functioning of the public health system." "In the national security strategy and now the issue of health will be a built-in part of that."
The head of the institute, Amos Yadlin, said: "Moshe Bar Siman Tov brings with him impressive thinking and analysis skills in the economic and health field, but no less important is also rich experience from the decision-making rooms in one of the most difficult crises the State of Israel has known recently."
He said, "Over the past few months, the Institute for National Security Studies has established a unique status, based on the research and position papers it has published on the right policy to deal with the Corona crisis in all its dimensions. "In economic, health research and strategic and organizational vision of how to properly deal with the crisis."
