Shay Gal, former VP of External Relations at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and one of the most prominent Israeli voices in international strategic discourse, is launching Line of State, a strategic practice for state files operating where strategy, government relations, strategic communications, business intelligence and public power meet.
The practice gives name, structure and scale to work Gal has led over the past eighteen months with governments, institutions, security establishments, companies, executives and decision-makers across international political, security and public arenas.
The three core pillars of Line of State are Strategic Affairs, Government Relations and Public Power. Strategic communications, business intelligence and Track 1.5 channels are not adjuncts, but operational instruments within the same architecture.
Line of State is not public relations, not lobbying and not a think tank. It is a strategic practice for state files in which interests diverge, alliances require design, risks must be priced, and decisions require a line.
Over the past eighteen months, Gal has worked with European Union and NATO institutions, and across arenas including Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Australia, India, France, the GCC states, Denmark, Greenland and the Arctic. His work deals with lines of power, sovereignty, alliances, infrastructure, foreign interference, strategic dependency, corridors, bases, intelligence, communications and decision systems.
In the Eastern Mediterranean, Gal is identified with the line that views occupied northern Cyprus not only as a Cypriot issue, but as a Turkish platform with security significance for Israel, Greece, Cyprus and Europe. His work on the issue generated attention in Greek, Cypriot and Turkish arenas, and appeared in security-intelligence assessments dealing with Ankara and its regional moves.
In Australia, Gal works on foreign interference, the Grey Wolves and cognitive warfare against Western democracies; his work was also incorporated into the professional learning environment of the Royal Australian Air Force. In India, he developed the concept of India as a connector power between arenas, corridors, markets and alliances. In the Greenland and Arctic file, he developed SILA, Strategic Ice Line Architecture, connecting Greenlandic legitimacy, Danish authority and European scale in order to turn sovereignty into infrastructure, capability and access, and to shift the North from exclusive American dependency to a European architecture.
Previously, Gal served as VP of External Relations at Israel Aerospace Industries, where he operated at the intersection of the defense industry, government, communications, branding, international influence and strategic relations. Earlier, he held roles across Israel’s political system, including in the Knesset and government. In his role at Israel Aerospace Industries, he led communications, government affairs and international visibility efforts for one of Israel’s leading defense companies, and was associated with generating estimated international earned-media value of hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Line of State operates from Israel across international arenas, working with governments, institutions, companies, executives, investors and decision-makers on files that demand integration between strategy, government, communications, business intelligence, public power and execution.