Conference Proceedings
2019 EN
Itay Mosafi · Eli Omid David · Nathan S. Netanyahu
As state-of-the-art deep neural networks are deployed at the core of more advanced Al-based products and services, the incentive for copying them (i.e., their intellectual properties) by rival adversaries is expected to increase considerably over time. The best way to extract or steal knowledge from such networks is by querying them using a large dataset of random samples and recording their output, followed by training a student network to mimic these outputs, without making any assumption about the original networks. The most effective way to protect against such a mimicking attack is to provide only the classification result, without confidence values associated with the softmax layer.In this paper, we present a novel method for generating composite images for attacking a mentor neural network using a student model. Our method assumes no information regarding the mentor's training dataset, architecture, or weights. Further assuming no information regarding the mentor's softmax output values, our method successfully mimics the given neural network and steals all of its knowledge. We also demonstrate that our student network (which copies the mentor) is impervious to watermarking protection methods, and thus would not be detected as a stolen model.Our results imply, essentially, that all current neural networks are vulnerable to mimicking attacks, even if they do not divulge anything but the most basic required output, and that the student model which mimics them cannot be easily detected and singled out as a stolen copy using currently available techniques.
Conference Proceedings
2019 EN
Daniel Rika · Dror Sholomon · Eli David
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This paper presents a novel scheme, based on a unique combination of geneticalgorithms (GAs) and deep learning (DL), for the automatic reconstruction ofPortuguese tile panels, a challenging real-world variant of the jigsaw puzzleproblem (JPP) with important national heritage implications. Specifically, weintroduce an enhanced GA-based puzzle solver, whose integration with a novelDL-based compatibility measure (DLCM) yields state-of-the-art performance,regarding the above application. Current compatibility measures considertypically (the chromatic information of) edge pixels (between adjacent tiles),and help achieve high accuracy for the synthetic JPP variant. However, suchmeasures exhibit rather poor performance when applied to the Portuguese tilepanels, which are susceptible to various real-world effects, e.g.,monochromatic panels, non-squared tiles, edge degradation, etc. To overcomesuch difficulties, we have developed a novel DLCM to extract high-leveltexture/color statistics from the entire tile information. Integrating this measure with our enhanced GA-based puzzle solver, we havedemonstrated, for the first time, how to deal most effectively with large-scalereal-world problems, such as the Portuguese tile problem. Specifically, we haveachieved 82% accuracy for the reconstruction of Portuguese tile panels withunknown piece rotation and puzzle dimension (compared to merely 3.5% averageaccuracy achieved by the best method known for solving this problem variant).The proposed method outperforms even human experts in several cases, correctingtheir mistakes in the manual tile assembly.
Book Series
2019 EN
James F. McGrath
Early in the summer of 2016, interest in the papyrus fragment known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife had begun to wane. Then investigative journalist Ariel Sabar published an article unveiling a great deal of truly fascinating evidence that he had uncovered, related not only to the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife itself, but also the person who we can now say was almost certainly responsible for the forgery. The article told of connections with sex and pornography, scams and financial catastrophes, which made the real story behind the text seem even more sensational than the contents of the papyrus fragment itself.1 Since then, still other new texts have come to light and made news headlines, including purported additional Dead Sea Scrolls, and what has been hailed as the oldest papyrus mentioning Jerusalem.2 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to the latter within days of the news of the fragment first appearing, as he responded to a proposed UNESCO declaration about the purported lack of ancient Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. Meanwhile, the Jordanian Department of Antiquities finally offered its assessment that the lead codices, touted by David Elkington as dating from the time when Jesus was alive, are modern fakes, a conclusion that most discussion of them online had already drawn.3 These and many other examples illustrate how the work of scholarship on ancient history intersects with contemporary concerns,
Journals
2019 EN
Victor Kattan
On 25 March 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel. The Golan Heights proclamation, which endorses Israel's annexation of the territory captured from Syria in the 1967 war, was issued two weeks before the Israeli general election in a photo-op with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Undermining internationally agreed-upon norms prohibiting states from recognizing the annexation of territory by force, the proclamation could have detrimental consequences for the international legal order, providing a precedent for other states to take steps to annex territory they claim is necessary for their defense.
Journals
2019 EN
Alaa Ghazi Rababah · Jihad M. Hamdan
This study provides a contrastive critical discourse analysis of the speeches of the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations General Assembly regarding the Gaza War (2014). The analysis explores the representation of the “Self” and the “Other” in relation to the war. Van Dijk’s ‘Ideological Square’ theory is adopted to explore the group polarization of Us versus Them dichotomy. Moreover Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar is utilized in the analysis to study how the polarization of the “Self” and “Other” is constructed via particular grammatical transitivity choices. The results indicated that the representation of the “Self” and “Other” in the speeches reflects two different opposing ideologically-governed perspectives on the Gaza conflict. Both speakers present the “Self” as ‘strong’, ‘human’ and ‘honorable’ in contrast to the “Other” that is deemed to be a ‘dire threat’ and an ‘agent of destruction’.
Journals
2019 EN
Alek D. Epstein
Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov knew the Middle East so well as, perhaps, nobody else in Russia did: he worked in Cairo from 1965 till 1969 and visited the city regularly after that period of time. He was personally acquainted with all of the highest representatives of Egyptian political and military elite. He had visited Israel multiple times since August, 1971. Five PrimeMinisters of the Jewish state (Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu) were his interlocutors in different years. Whatever views and powers he had in different years of his extremely intensive and multifaceted activity, the Middle East lacks very much statesmen of such magnitude and with such depth of understanding of geopolitical and regional processes which distinguished Yevgeny Maximovich, to the memory of whom the current essay is devoted. The June War of 1967 year, which is called in Western and Israeli historiography the Six-Day War, has radically changed the Middle East. Dozens of books and hundreds of scientific articles on this war have been published. The current research demonstrates the central role of Egyptian leaders in the onset of the war which nobody sought for. These lead-ers were driven by considerations and interests of pan-Arab solidarity which significantly contradicted in this case the interests of Egypt itself. By analyzing the causes of the war of June 1967 between Egypt and Israel it is proved that they laid to a certain significant extent beyond the context of bilateral relations of these countries. The tragic experience of June 1967 is important nowadays when it is taken for granted that a new war between Israel and Egypt could not erupt because these countries have nothing to divide after the return of the Sinai Peninsula. Once upon a time, in March 1957, Israel has already withdrawn its forces from the Sinai. The same situation of lack of territorial claims did not prevent abrupt escalation of conflict in May 1967 and the following outbreak of hos-tilities. Another important lesson is that security of any country, including Israel, cannot be guaranteed neither by deployment of the “blue helmets” nor by receiving American guaran-tees. As events of the second half of May 1967 demonstrated, both UN forces and American authorities were ready to shirk when the task of war prevention was most acute.
Journals
2019 EN
Ido Cohen · Eli David · Nathan S. Netanyahu
In recent years, large datasets of high-resolution mammalian neural imageshave become available, which has prompted active research on the analysis ofgene expression data. Traditional image processing methods are typicallyapplied for learning functional representations of genes, based on theirexpressions in these brain images. In this paper, we describe a novelend-to-end deep learning-based method for generating compact representations ofin situ hybridization (ISH) images, which are invariant-to-translation. Incontrast to traditional image processing methods, our method relies, instead,on deep convolutional denoising autoencoders (CDAE) for processing raw pixelinputs, and generating the desired compact image representations. We provide anin-depth description of our deep learning-based approach, and present extensiveexperimental results, demonstrating that representations extracted by CDAE canhelp learn features of functional gene ontology categories for theirclassification in a highly accurate manner. Our methods improve the previousstate-of-the-art classification rate (Liscovitch, et al.) from an average AUCof 0.92 to 0.997, i.e., it achieves 96% reduction in error rate. Furthermore,the representation vectors generated due to our method are more compact incomparison to previous state-of-the-art methods, allowing for a more efficienthigh-level representation of images. These results are obtained withsignificantly downsampled images in comparison to the original high-resolutionones, further underscoring the robustness of our proposed method.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Journals
2019 EN
Paweł Pokrzywiński
Neo-revisionism is a term proposed by Ilan Peleg and Paul Shaum for the philosophy originated by Menachem Begin in 1977 and kept by Yitzhak Shamir and Benjamin Netanyahu. It invokes Vladimir Jabotinski’s revisionism with a strong emphasis on state-centrism, bilateral alliances, power and territory. The foreign policy of the Likud leaders showed that a postulated ideological hard-line stand is far from political reality and is closer to a pragmatic interpretation of state’s surrounding. The author will try to examine the relation between ideology and pragmatism in the Likud’s policy. It will also be shown in the light of neoclassical realism – close to neo-revisionism – by the examples of power, the Israeli-Palestinian conict, non-state representatives but also in the light of pragmatism. The overview of the Likud’s policy is divided between ideologised aspects of securing the self-interest of the state, Israeli raison d'état, acting against Arab states’ ambitions and securing the territory as a strategic depth and between pragmatic decisions like Begin’s peace treaty with Egypt and returning the Sinai, Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal of the settlements from the Gaza Strip or the freezing of settlement by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Institute of Political Studies - Polish Academy of Sciences
Journals
2019 EN
Yudi Prawira
Zionist narrative constitutes Netanyahus policy in Jerusalem. The use of narrative in conflict is important to build worldview either internally or externally to justify their ideological goal. This paper uses Constructivism framework to understand how Netanyahus worldview created by that narrative and replicates his worldview by using speech act. This paper uses qualitative interpretive method which focused on how to understand narrative. The objective of this research is to undertand Netanyahus position about Jerusalem according to Zionist ideology. I conclude that this conflict will remain as long as Netanyahu in power. It is hard to imagine about the possibility to reach the final agreement about two state solution especially in the most important issue like Jerusalem because the ideology that Netanyahu holds will not allow compromise.
Fakultas Ilmu Sosial Dan Ilmu Politik (FISIP) Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani (UNJANI)
Journals
2019 EN
عيسى فاضل نزال الشمري.
The Israel government led by Rabin reached an advanced stage in peace negotiations with Syria, but his assassination in 1995 prevented the completion of the peace process. The Likud returned to power, making the extremist Netanyahu as a prime minister, who insisted on returning to the zero point in the negotiations with Syria. But with Barak's Labor government in power, negotiations resumed again from the point where they stopped in 1996, but the dispute between Syria and Israel for a few meters prevented negotiations from succeeding. When Sharon became Israeli prime minister and America evaded its role in pursuing negotiations, the peace process was halted again by the beginning of the century. Things continued as they were until 2007. when Kadima leader Olmert asked Turkey to resume indirect negotiations with Syria, rather, despite Ankara's embrace of the negotiations, the situation worsened after the renewal of Netanyahu's election in 2009 as a prime minister.