Ari Cicurel
Ari Cicurel has been Associate Director of Foreign Policy at JINSA since January 2025. His research and writing focuses on U.S. defense strategy, Middle East security, air and missile defense, and U.S.-Israel security cooperation. Ari’s prior roles at JINSA include as Assistant Director of Foreign Policy from 2023-2025, Senior Policy Analyst from 2020-2023, and Policy Analyst from September 2018-January 2020.
Ari manages JINSA’s Iran Projectile Tracker, and this data on Iranian missile and drone attacks has been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, Politico, and Axios. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg, Newsweek, The Hill, Defense News, Defense One, Breaking Defense, The National Interest, The Jerusalem Post, Military Times, RealClearDefense, and The Jewish News Syndicate.
Ari is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he dual majored in Political Science and Judaic Studies. While in college, he interned at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in their Military and Security Program and the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. Ari received his Master of Arts in War Studies from King’s College London.
