A joint US-Israeli team of experts convened at the University of Haifa on August 22- 23, 2018 with the goal of discussing maritime security in the Eastern Mediterranean. The team’s work is part of the activity of a consortium established in 2016 between the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center at the University of Haifa and the Hudson Institute which is located in the US. This was a follow-up to the discussions of a joint team of experts on security and energy issues which took place in 2016 and which produced a joint report published in September 2016 on security and energy in the Eastern Mediterranean….