Omer Haim is a Distinguished Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, where he focuses on U.S.–Israel defense and security cooperation. A highly decorated security and defense professional with more than twenty-five years of experience, he has built strategic partnerships across the defense, homeland security, and enterprise sectors and advanced industrial cooperation between the United States and Israeli governments and industries.

He currently serves as Director, International Sector at Rhombus Power, where he leads the company’s global business development and strategic partnerships with international defense and government organizations, with a focus on predictive intelligence, AI-driven defense solutions, and dual-use technology adoption among U.S. allies and partners.

From 2019 to 2025, Mr. Haim served in Washington, D.C. as the Israel Ministry of Defense Representative and Director of the Office of Defense Cooperation — the senior defense liaison overseeing strategic defense and security cooperation between the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) and the U.S. government. In that role he led high-level engagements with U.S. federal departments, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as state governments and leading defense and homeland security industries, and supervised defense export and licensing processes in alignment with U.S. regulations.

Earlier, he served as Chief of Staff and Principal Advisor to the Director General of the IMOD in Tel Aviv (2015–2019), overseeing twenty-four branches and directorates and spearheading the unification of the ministry’s acquisition and sustainment processes. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Division Director in the Directorate of Security of the Defense Establishment (DSDE), developing and executing security strategies to protect critical defense technologies and coordinating strategic security agreements with senior defense and military partners.

Mr. Haim began his career with the Israel Security Agency (ISA), where he served from 2000 to 2009 in a series of staffing and command roles in the Dignitary Protection Unit, including Director of Operations and detail leader for the Prime Minister’s protection.

He holds an M.A. in Political Science from the Executive Program on Diplomacy and Defense Studies at Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in Business Administration (Finance and Marketing) from Ono Academic College, and has completed multiple executive seminars at the U.S. National Defense University.