The Institute for the Research of the Methodology of Intelligence (IRMI) at the Israeli Intelligence Community Commemoration and Heritage Center was established in 2016. Its goal is to serve as a space for developing and discussing intelligence methodologies for the Israeli Intelligence Community and to help connecting it to the relevant methodological discourse in other intelligence communities, in academia and in the private and public sectors.
IRMI research and other activities are based primarily on the vast experience of practitioners,those who are active within the Israeli Intelligence Community and its veterans, as well as on professional research in academia and research centers worldwide.
In IRMI's view, methodology is a critical component of the intelligence practicum, and the convergence between theory and operation is essential for developing knowledge needed for on-going development of the intelligence profession. This is why practitioners are best fit to develop the theory of intelligence whose implementation feeds the development of further relevant knowledge.
IRMI issues "Intelligence in Theory and in Practice" – a professional periodical dedicated to Intelligence methodological issues. The first volumes dealt with "Jointness in Intelligence","Intelligence in a time of Rapid Change", "Intelligence and Big Data", "The Cognitive Campaign– Strategic and Intelligence Perspectives, "Intelligence for Civilian National Security Needs",Multi-Dimensional Intelligence, Inte-agency Jointness and Gender and Intelligence.
IRMI also publishes in-depth research, written by its research fellows and Israeli Intelligence veterans, conducts seminars and workshops on methodological issues and promotesacademic studies of intelligence in Israel.
IRMI director is Brig. General (Ret.) Yosef Kuperwasser, who served as the director of the research division in the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Branch. Its advisory board includes Gen. Moshe Yaalon, former minister of Defense, Tamir Pardo, former head of Mossad, Gen.Aharon Zeevi-Farkash former head of Military and Defense intrelligence, Roni Alsheich, former deputy director of Israel Security Agency, and professors Shlomo Avinery, Azar Gat,Eviatar Matanya, Gen. Yitzhak Ben Israel and Shlomo Shapira.
- Yossi Kuperwasser - Brigadier General (Ret.) Yossi Kuperwasser is the head of the Intelligence Methodology Research Institute at the Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center. He is also the head of the project for regional issues at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs. He served in the Israeli Military Intelligence (IDI), among other things as the intelligence officer of the Central Command and as head of the research division. He also served as the director general of the office for strategic issues.
- Dudi Siman-Tov - Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dudi Siman Tov is the deputy head of the Intelligence Methodology Research Institute at the Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center and a researcher in the field of consciousness at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He previously served in the the Israeli Military Intelligence (IDI). He has published many articles about consciousness, cyber and intelligence and he is the editor of the journal " Intelligence In Theory and In Practice". He was also, co-author in the writing of the book "אמ"ן יוצא לאור". Siman-Tov Holds a master's degree in political science from Tel Aviv University.
- Col. (Ret.) Dr. Ofer Guterman
- Inbal Karo
- Alon Sasson
- Dr. Shay Hershkovitz
- Dr. Ehud (Udi) Eran
- Dr. Yonit Rusho
- Lt. Col. (Ret.) Noam Alon
- Dr. Haim Assa
- Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tzachi Davidi
- Major (Ret.) Dr. Ofek Rimer
- Col. (Ret.) Gilad Eisin
- Dr. Yaakov Falkov
- Lt. Col. (Ret.) Sarit Shapira
- Shoval Ben Yair