Israeli Government Sources


Absorption & Negev &
Galilee Development
Information Center - 03-9733333
Meital Noy, Spokesperson
Office: 02-6752697
Fax: 02-5618138
Cell: 050-621-4700
e-mail: dover@moia.gov.il

Nir Grossman, Media Adviser
Office: 03-606-0700
Fax: 02-566-9244

Agriculture & Rural Development
Dafna Yurista, Spokeswoman
Office: 03- 9485436
Fax: 03- 9485782
Cell: 050-624-1050
e-mail: dafnay@moag.gov.il

Tali Carmi, Advisor
Office: 03-9485548
Fax: 03-9485835

Antiquities Authority
Yoli Schwartz, Acting Spokesperson
Tel: 02-6204690
Fax: 02-628-7492
Cell: 052-599-1888

Bank of Israel
Dr. Yossi Saadon, Spokesman
Office 1: 02-6552712
Office 2: 02-6552713
Fax: 02-6528812
e-mail: spokeman@bankisrael.gov.il

Border Police
Moshe Finsi, Spokesman
Office: 08-9770416
Fax: 08-9770420
Cell: 050-733-6543

Cabinet Secretariat
Oved Yehezkel
Office: 02-670-5555
Direct: 02-670-5532
Fax: 02-563-2580

Censorship Office
Chief Censor
Office: 03-522-8541
Direct: 03-696-2538
Fax: 03-569-3472

Col. Avi Rosali, Jerusalem
Office: 02-625-3974
Fax: 02-624-5199
Fax 2: 02-569-4379
Cell: 057-812-8927

Col. Ron Carnielli, Tel Aviv
Office: 03-696-6208
Fax: 03-569-3494
Cell: 057-815-0236

Central Bureau of Statistics
Yael Nathan, Director of Information
Office: 02-6592222
Direct: 02-6592037
Fax: 02-6521340
Cell: 050-623-5124
e-mail: Yael@cbs.gov.il

Chief Rabbinate
Office: 02-5313173
Fax: 02-538-2695

Civil Administration, Judea & Samaria
Capt. Tzidki Maman, Spokesperson
Office: 02-997-7001
Fax: 02-997-7341
Cell: 050-623-4081

Coordinator of Activities in the Territories
Maj. Peter Lerner, Spokesman
Office: 03-697-7138/2249
Fax: 03-6975177
Cell: 050-623-4053

Coordinator and Liaison
Administration, Gaza Strip
Capt. Shadi Yasin, Spokesman
Office: 08-674-1469
Fax: 08-674-1625
Cell: 050-624-6425

Communications
Dr. Yechiel Shabi, Spokesman
Office: 02-6706323
Fax: 02-6706372

Naama Henig, Foreign Liaison
Office: 03-519-8215
Fax: 03-519-8109

Civil Service Commission
Arie Grinblatt
Office: 02-6705495
Fax: 02-6705496

Construction and Housing
Kobi Bleich, Spokesman
Office: 02-5847666
Office 2: 02-5847677
Fax: 02-5812884
e-mail: kobibl@moch.gov.il

Eran Sidis, Media Advisor
Office: 02-584-7654
Fax: 02-678-7662

Courts Administration
Ayelet Filo, Spokesperson
Office: 02-675-0412
Office 2: 02-6750413
Fax: 02-6750422
e-mail: dover@court.gov.il

Customs and VAT
Idit Lev-Zerahia, Spokeswoman
Direct: 02-6664100, 02-6664117
Fax: 02-6664112

Defense
Shlomo Dror, Spokesman
Office: 03-697-5546/339
Fax: 03-697-7285
Cell: 050-629-8148
Ronen Moshe, Media Advisor
Office: 03-697-5750
Fax: 03-691-6940

Science, Culture and Sport
Hadas Greenberg-Yaakov, Spokeswoman
Direct: 02-541-1190
Fax: 02-582-5581
e-mail: hadasag@most.gov.il

Education
Liptal Apter, Advisor
Office: 02-560-2330
Fax: 02-560-2246
Cell: 050-628-3502

Spokesman Office
Office: 02-560-2710
Fax: 02-560-2238

Employment Service
Batya Koris, Spokeswoman
Home: 03-648-1478

Environment
Sharon Achdut, Spokesman
Office: 02-655-3715
Fax: 02-653-5953
Cell: 050-623-3326
e-mail: L_dover@sviva.gov.il
Hanan Amior, Adviser
Office: 02-655-3702
Fax: 02-655-5958

Finance
Sholomi Shefer, Spokesman
Office: 02-531-7111
Direct: 02-531-7201
Fax: 02-569-5355

Li Gat, Media Advisor
Office: 02-531-7200
Office 2: 02-563-5769
Cell: 050-620-4466

Fire and Rescue Service
Moshe Mosco
Office: 03-943-0108
Fax: 03-962-1118
Cell: 050-620-4054
Beeper: #60181
e-mail: moshemo@moin.gov.il

Foreign Affairs
Areye Mekel, Spokesman
Office: 02-530-3555
Office 2: 02-530-3343
Cell: 050-620-3734
Fax: 02-530-3408

Gil Messing, Media Advisor
Office: 02-530-3111/215
Fax: 02-530-3728

Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, Adviser
Office: 02-530-3111
Office 2: 02-530-3738
Office 3: 02-530-3563
Fax: 02-530-3728
Beeper: #48707

Government Coins and Medals Corp.
Tova Krause
Office: 02-560-0100
Office 2: 02-560-0140
Fax: 02-563-4496
e-mail: Tova@coins.co.il

Government Press Office: Jerusalem
Daniel Seaman, Director
Office: 02-500-7502
Fax: 02-625-7886
Email: gpo@pmo.gov.il

Andy Luterman
English News Department
Office: 02-500-7524
Cell: 050-620-5432
Fax: 02-623-3388

Hebrew News Department
Office: 02-500-7518
Office 2: 02-500-7519
Fax: 02-623-3388
Visiting Journalists Department
Office: 02-500-7515
Fax: 02-623-5897

Dr. Fawaz Kamal
Arab Journalists Department
Office: 02-500-7504
Fax: 02-623-5897
Beeper: #25138
Email: fawaz@jpo.gov.il

Elana Dayan
Photography Department
Office: 02-500-7555
Fax: 02-624-1407

Danielle Harel Greenbaum
Administration
Office: 02-500-7507
Fax: 02-622-2585

Government Publications Office
Natan Meir, Director
Direct: 03-514-0450/08
Fax: 03-514-0472

Haifa Municipality
Tzachi Terano, Spokesman
Office: 04-835-6755/6
Fax: 04-835-6352
Cell: 057-754-8500

Ronnie Grossman, Dept. Spokesman
Cell: 057-754-8014

Health
Einav Shimron, Spokeswoman
Office: 02-678-7672
Office 2: 02-678-7674
Fax: 02-6786491

Tal Harel, Media Adviser
Direct: 02-670-5811
Fax: 02-678-7662
Beeper: #77002

IDF Spokesperson's Office
Brig.-Gen. Avi Benayahu, Spokesman
Office: 03-569-0922
Office 2: 03-569-0798
Fax: 03-569-8222

IDF Spokesperson's Office -
International Media Branch
Head of IDF International Media Branch
Major Avital Leibowitz
Office: 03-608-0238
Fax: 03-608-0300/12
Cell: 057-818-6248
Beeper: #72278

News Desk
Office: 03-608-0245
Fax: 03-608-0300

Head of Europe and Pacific Desk
Capt. Benjamin Rutland
Office: 03-608-0235
Office 2: 03-608-0326
Fax: 03-608-0300/12

Head of North American Desk
Capt. Noa Meir
Office: 03-608-0236
Office 2: 03-608-0317
Office 3: 03-608-0318
Cell: 057-818-9436
Beeper: #74061

Latin America and Asia Desk
Corp. Gabriel Castellan
Office: 03-569-4193
Fax: 03-608-0312
Cell: 057-817-2647
e-mail: Idfamlat@yahoo.com

Industry Trade and Employment
Haya Peri, Spokeswoman
Office: 026-66-2000
Direct: 02-666-2301
Direct 2: 02-666-2303
Fax: 02-666-2923
Beeper: #24404

Roi Lachmanovich, Adviser
Office: 02-666-4423
Fax: 02-666-2923

Information Center
Albert Achdut
Fax: 02-653-6953

Interior
Sabin Hadid, Spokesperson
Office: 02-670-1411
Office 2: 02-670-1447
Office 3: 02-670-1448
Fax: 02-670-1628
Beeper: #50625

Hanan Shlain, Adviser
Office: 02-670-1521
Fax: 02-566-6376

Israel Broadcasting Authority
Tali Ben-Avi
Office: 02-501-5555
Fax: 02-501-5521

Israel Lands Authority
Ortal Tzabar
Direct: 02-620-8366
Fax: 02-620-8399
Cell: 050-621-8030

Israel Police - National
Insp. Micky Rosenfeld
Office: 02-542-8874
Cell: 050-627-5870
Beeper: #41214

Jerusalem Municipality
Gidi Schmerling, Spokesman
Office: 02-629-7744
Fax: 02-629-6004
Cell: 057-776-9888
Beeper: #107

Foreign Media Department
Office: 02-629-6538
Fax: 02-629-6004
Beeper: #61585

Jewish Agency
Michael Jankelowitz, Foreign Press Liaison
Foreign Press Liaison
Office: 02-620-2780
Fax: 02-620-4013

Justice
Moshe Cohen, Spokesman
Office: 02-646-6487
Office 2: 02-646-6363
Fax: 02-646-6722

Shiri Crispin, Adviser
Office: 02-646-6527
Fax: 02-628-5438

Department of Pardons
Office: 972-2-6466801/2/3/4/

Knesset
Giorda Pordes
Office: 02-675-3333
Direct: 02-675-3396
Cell: 050-623-3750
Fax: 02-652-1599

Magen David Adom
Yeruham Mandola
Office: 03-630-0222
Direct: 03-537-9341
Cell: 052-256-9955
Beeper: #33332

Minister for Government -
Knesset Liaison
Ilan Marciano, Spokesman and Adviser
Office: 02-675-3382
Fax: 02-670-3386
Cell: 050-623-3837

Minister for Religious Councils
Keren Shironi, Spokesperson
Office: 02-531-1385
Fax: 02-531-1310
Beeper: #53355

Minister for Senior Citizens Affairs
Yoni Yitzhak, Spokesman
Office: 02-654-7022
Fax: 02-654-7034

Elle Baror, Media Adviser
Office: 02-654-7007
Fax: 02-654-7035

Ministry for Strategic Affairs
Irena Etinger, Spokesperson
Office: 02-653-5077
Fax: 02-654-7101

Media Adviser
Yossi Levy

Minister Meshullam Nahari’s Office
Ariel Deri, Spokesman and Adviser
Fax: 02-531-7727
Cell: 054-422-2171

National Infrastructure
Hagit Gamish, Assistant Spokesperson
Office: 02-500-6777
Office 2: 02-500-6712
Fax: 02-500-6715

National Insurance Institute
Haim Fitussi
Direct: 02-670-9530
Fax: 02-654-0428
Beeper: #60668

Postal Authority
Merav Lapidot, Spokesperson
Direct: 02-629-0808
Fax: 02-629-0921

President
Ayelet Frish, Spokeswoman
Office: 02-670-7211
Direct: 02-670-7251
Direct 2: 02-670-7223
Cell: 050-620-5111
Fax: 02-670-7295
Beeper: #44998

Prisons Authority
Yaron Zamir
Office: 08-977-6806
Fax: 08-919-3810
Cell: 050-627-9452
Beeper: #33841

Prime Minister's Office
Mark Regev, Foreign Press Adviser
Office: 02-670-5555
Direct: 02-670-5354
Cell: 050-621-6677
Fax: 02-670-5602

Yanki Galanti, Media Adviser
Office: 02-670-5465
Direct: 02-566-6920
Office 2: 02-670-5465
Fax: 02-566-9245

Public Security
Yehuda Maman, Spokesman
Office: 02-542-8003
Fax: 02-584-7872
Cell: 050-627-2680
Beeper: #25156

Sari Barak, Media Advisor
Office: 02-542-8502
Fax: 02-542-8039

Science, Technology, Culture & Sport
Dotan Olivier, Advisor
Office: 02-541-1101
Fax: 02-532-8016

Hadassah Greenberg, Spokeswoman
Office: 02-541-1159
Fax: 02-582-3030

Social Welfare
Nachum Ido, Spokesman
Office: 02-675-2311
Office 2: 02-675-2518
Fax: 02-675-2803
Beeper: #42544

Pnina Ben Ami, Media Advisor
Office: 02-675-2713/691
Fax: 02-566-9244

State Comptroller
Shlomo Raz, Spokesman
Office: 02-666-5000
Direct: 02-666-5105
Office 2: 02-655-9108
Fax: 02-666-5150

Tax Authority
Idit Lev-Zerahia, Spokesperson
Direct: 02-666-4110
Fax: 02-666-4112
Beeper: # 57597

Tel Aviv Municipality
Hillel Fertuk
Office: 03-521-8108
Fax: 03-527-0761
Cell: 054-222-2034

Tourism
Shira Kazeh, Spokesperson
Direct: 02-666-4203
Fax: 02-666-4400
Cell: 050-621-4141
Beeper: #21720

Foreign Press Adviser
Lydia Weitzman
Cell: 052-358-4395

Transportation
Avner Ovadiah, Spokesman
Direct: 02-666-3190
Fax: 02-666-3195
Beeper: #62202

Ora Salomon, Foreign Press
Office: 02-666-3191
Fax: 02-666-3195

Vice Premier Minister Haim Ramon's Office
Tzachi Moshe
Office: 02-670-5372
Fax: 02-670-5376
Cell: 050-621-7008

Yad Vashem
Iris Rosenberg, Spokeswoman
Office: 02-644-3400
Direct: 02-644-3410
Fax: 02-644-3409
Beeper: #42358

Esti Yaari, Foreign Media Liaison
Office: 02-644-3412
Fax: 02-644-3409
Cell: 050-200-7072


Academic Experts

Conflict management/Conflict resolution

Yossi Alpher
Affiliation: Coeditor of bitterlemons.org; Former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); Former special adviser to PM
Ehud Barak
Field: Settlements and borders; Strategic peacemaking
Tel : 02-644-9186
Cell: 052-298-9299
yalpher@netvision.net.il

Moshe Amirav
Affiliation: Former Likud City Council member and adviser to PM Ehud Barak
Field: Solutions for Jerusalem question
Tel: 03-648-3279
Cell: 050-550-7742
amirav2@netvision.net.il

Shaul Arlosorof
Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner
Field: Water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
sarlo@inter.net.il

Yaakov Bar-Siman-Tov
Affiliation: Chair for the Study of Peace & Regional Cooperation; Head of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Peace building; Mistakes in past Israeli/Palestinian attempts for peace
Tel: 02-588-3150
Home: 02-533-4122
msbarsi@mscc.huji.ac.il

Daniel Bar-Tal
Affiliation: Former Director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education (Tel Aviv Univ.); Visiting Scholar at the Maurice and Marilyn Center for Modern Jewish Studies (Brandeis Univ., USA)
Field: Jewish-Arab coexistence through education; Stereotypes and prejudice in conflict
Tel: 04-824-0050
daniel@post.tau.ac.il


Gabriel Ben-Dor
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science; Director of the National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Israeli-Palestinian relations; Druze in Israel; Miscommunication in conflict; Peace process
Office: 04-824-0050
Cell: 052-866-6435
Home: 04-825-5780
bendor@poli.haifa.ac.il


Raymond Cohen
Affiliation: Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.); Former US Institute of Peace Research Fellow
Field: Origins of diplomacy; Diplomacy and negotiating across cultures; Negotiations in Arab-Israeli conflict; Status quo in Jerusalem: conflict and negotiation between the denominations in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Tel: 02-588-3152
Home: 02-651-3226
msrcohen@mscc.huji.ac.il


Dore Gold
Affiliation: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Former principal foreign policy advisor to Ariel Sharon; Former Israeli ambassador to U.N
Field: Israeli and world Jewish affairs; Foreign policy
Tel: 02-588-3182
jcpa@netvision.net.il


Shlomo Hasson
Affiliation: Hebrew University Deputy Director of the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies in Jerusalem; Senior Researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Field: Efforts to reduce socio-economic gaps between Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab neighborhoods; Plans for resolving the Jerusalem issue within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian final status negotiations
Tel: 03-535-9195
Cell: 054-660-3409
mshasson@mscc.huji.ac.il
shlomo.hasson@huji.ac.il


Efraim Inbar
Affiliation: Professor of political studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.); Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies
Field: Middle Eastern strategic issues; Politics and strategy of Israeli national security; Israeli politics
Office: 03-535-9198
Home: 09-746-7636
Cell: 054-660-3409
inbare@mail.biu.ac.il


Amal Jamal
Affiliation: Head of Department of Political Science (Tel Aviv Univ.); Lecturer, Western Galilee College
Field: Jewish-Arab coexistence through education; Political trends among Israeli-Arabs; Nation and institution-building among the Palestinians; Political communication
Tel: 03-640-9061
ajamal@post.tau.ac.il


Menachem Klein
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Jerusalem and other aspects of Israeli-Palestinian final-status negotiations; Palestinian politics and the PLO; Continuity and change in Palestinian popular attitudes towards relations with Israel; Ideological roots of Islamic extremism and its impact on the Palestinian movement Israeli-Palestinian; Conflict resolution
Tel: 02-277-4846


Aharon Klieman
Affiliation: Nahum Goldmann Professor in Diplomacy (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Associate, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies Field: Arab-Israeli diplomacy and conflict resolution; Diplomatic history of the Middle East; Israeli foreign and security policy
Tel: 03-531-8051
Cell: 054-477-8742
astalk@ccsg.tau.ac.il


Nabil Kukali
Affiliation: Director, Palestinian Center for Public Opinion
Field: Internal Palestinian politics; Palestinian popular attitudes towards relations with Israel
Office: 02-277-4846 kukali@p-ol.com


Moshe Ma’oz
Affiliation: Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Middle East conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian politics; Israeli-Syrian relations
Tel 1: 02-588-2336 Tel 2: 02-588-2300
msmomaoz@mscc.huji.ac.il


Itamar Rabinovich
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); Andrew White Professor at Large (Cornell Univ.); Former Ambassador to the United States ; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996)
Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations
Tel: 03-640-8348
itamarr@tauex.ac.il


Barry Rubin
Affiliation: Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Arab-Israeli conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian movement; Inter-Arab affairs; Israel's international relations; Israeli foreign and security policy
Office: 09-970-2726
Tel: 03-528-7298
Cell: 052-473-2724
profbarryrubin@yahoo.com
gloria@idc.ac.il


Shmuel Sandler
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies;Faculty member, Department of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Field: International politics and comparative government; Israeli politics and foreign policy; Ethno-national politics and foreign policy
Tel: 03-531-8381
sandls@mail.biu.ac.il


Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Affiliation: Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya
Field: Middle East affairs; Israel-Palestinian conflict; International politics
Cell: 972-52-878-3591
jspyer@idc.ac.il


Justus Reid Weiner
Affiliation: Scholar-in-Residence, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Adjunct lecturer (Hebrew Univ. & Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: International legal issues affecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Human rights, status of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East
Tel: 03-6407381 justusdoc@yahoo.com


Ephraim Yaar
Affiliation: Head of the Evens Program in Mediation & Conflict Resolution (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Mediation and conflict resolution; Israeli-Jewish public opinion
Tel: 02-533-9900
eppie@post.tau.ac.il


Ehud Ya’ari
Affiliation: Chief Middle East Commentator, Israel Channel 2 Television; Associate editor, Jerusalem Report
Field: Regional security affairs; Conflict and conflict resolution
Tel: 02-589-2286
Yaari2@netvision.net.il

Archeology

Gideon Avni
Affiliation: Head of Excavations and Surveys Israel Antiquities Authority
Field: Archaeology of Jerusalem; Excavation of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Gideon@israntique.org.il


Israeli Finkelstein
Affiliation: Jacob M. Alkow Professor, Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Biblical Israel in the Bronze and Iron ages; Archaeological and historical aspects of early Israel
Tel: 03-640-9703
Fink2@post.tau.ac.il


Geography

Arnon Soffer
Affiliation: Chair in National Security Studies (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Military and political geography of the Middle East; Israeli Arabs
Tel: 04-824-0146
Cell: 052-866-6434
soffer@geo.haifa.ac.il


Israel Domestic Affairs

Hanna Adoni
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus (Hebrew Univ.); Head, Communication Course (Jezreel Valley Academic College)
Field: Impact of mass communications on; Israeli political culture; Mass media and cultural minorities
Tel: 02-588-3046
Msadoni@mscc.huji.ac.il

Shaul Arlosoroff
Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner
Field: Water acquisition; Water use and retention in Israel; Water as a factor in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution
Tel: 02-588-3150
sarlo@inter.net.il

Dan Avnon
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Classical and Jewish political philosophy; Civic values and democratic practices in; Israel and the world; Hermeneutics and theories of interpretation
Tel: 02-588 2267
Home: 02-5672144
Cell: 05281005054
danavnon@netvision.net.il
Yehuda Ben-Meir Affiliation: Author of “National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case”
Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469
Tel: 050-380-8849
benmeir@inss.org.il


Avraham Brichta
Affiliation: Chairman, Department of Political Science (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Comparative politics; Government and politics of Israel; Institutional and electoral reform
Tel 1: 04-825-8882
Tel 2: 04-824-1743
Cell: 054-472-3041
Rspc706@uvm.haifa.ac.il
brichta@poli.haifa.ac.il


Dan Caspi
Affiliation: Chair, Department of Communications Studies (Ben Gurion Univ.); Head of the Hurbert Burda Center for Innovative Communications
Field: Impact of media on Israeli electoral politics; Israel’s communications industry; Mass media as a factor in the development of political identity in multicultural societies
Cell: 054-489-1722
danca@bgu.ac.il


Stuart Cohen
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Field: Israel military strategy; Societal-military relations in Israel
Tel: 03-531-8958
Home: 03-921-9986
cohenst@mail.biu.ac.il


David Dery
Affiliation: Founder and chair of Delta Leadership Ltd; Professor of Public Policy (Hebrew Univ.); Former Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Deputy-Prime Minister; Former Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Interior and for the Civil Service Commission
Field: Public administrationPublic policy and administration in Israel; Research and policy; Organizational learning; Local governance; Agenda setting in Israel’s government
Tel: 02-588 3059
Home: 03-6869338
deryda@vms.huji.ac.il


Avraham Diskin
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Government and politics of Israel; Electoral and constitutional reform
Tel: 02-588 3060
Home: 02-5661323
mshanna@mscc.huji.ac.il


Gideon Doron
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Tel Aviv Univ.); Past President of the Israeli Association of Political Scientists
Field: Government and politics of Israel; Mass communications; Public policy; Electoral reform and constitutional change
Tel: 03-640-7394
gideond@post.tau.ac.il


Rachel Elboim-Dror
Affiliation: Professor of Education and Culture Policy and History (Hebrew Univ.); Established and directed The Division of Education Policy, Planning and Administration at Hebrew Univ.
Field: Historical evolution and current status of the Israeli education system; Factors contributing to education policy-making in Israel
Tel: 02-678-1679
msred@mscc.huji.ac.il


Gil Feiler
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at BESA (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Tel: 03-644-8977
Field: Economics of Middle East conflict and conflict resolution; International financing of Middle East-based terrorist organizations
Cell: 054-463-0515
ipr@netvision.net.il


Eran Feitelson
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geography and Public Policy (Hebrew Univ.); Head of School of Public Policy (HU)
Field: Transformation of planning and land policies in Israel during the nineties; Environmental policy, transportation policy and land-use policy; Water policies and trans-boundary water management; Sustainability indicators for Israel; Management of shared water resources
Tel: 02-588-3346
Home: 02-679-2693
Cell: 052-428-2597
msfeitel@mscc.huji.ac.il


Itzhak Galnoor
Affiliation: Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.); Deputy Chair of the Israeli Council for Higher Education
Field: Israeli administration and politics; Comparative politics; Political communication; Political humor; Israeli political system; Territory and boundaries; Israeli democracy
Tel: 02-588-3160
Home: 02-641-2406
itzhakg@vanleer.org.il

Yehuda Goodman
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Identity politics; Anthropology of religion; Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Jews; Culture and politics; Soldiership, morality, and politics in the context of the conflict; The politics of Jewish conversion in Israel
Tel: 02-588 3430
Home: 02-5610751
inbare@mail.biu.ac.il


Reuven Y. Hazan
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Tel: 02-588 1117
Field: Political parties and party systems; Elections and electoral laws; Political representation; Executive-legislative relations; Parliament legislative committees;Regime typology; Israeli politics; Candidate selection methods; Israeli political parties and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; The Knesset: its changing role, structure, function, and makeup; Representation, elections, and democratic governance; The politics and ramifications of electoral reform
Home: 02-5333076
mshazan@mscc.huji.ac.il

Mordechai Kremnitzer
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Law (Hebrew Univ.); Senior Fellow of Israel Democracy Institute; Chairman of the Israel Press Council
Field: Education system; Israeli police system; Constitutional principles and their implementation; National security and democracy; Political corruption; Civil and human rights in times of security crises; Powers and responsibilities of Israel’s Security Services (Shin Bet) in its treatment of suspected terrorists
Tel: 02-588-2580
msmoka@mscc.huji.ac.il

Peter Medding
Affiliation: Professor, Depts. Of Political Science and Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.); An editor of the annual Studies of Contemporary Jewry
Field: Israeli politics; Political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; The development of Israeli democracy; The politics of American Jews
Tel: 02-588-3269
speter@mscc.huji.ac.il

Rafi Melnick
Affiliation: Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya); Senior economist and former deputy director of research at the Bank of Israel
Field: Israeli economics; Monetary economics; Macroeconomics; Economic policy; Econometrics; Developed the State of the Economy Index, which analyzes the real-time performance level and directional changes in the Israel economy
Office: 09-952-7358
Cell: 054-4758448
Home: 02-586-5804
melnick@idc.ac.il


David Nachmias
Affiliation: Head, Public Policies Study Division (IDC Herziliya); Head, "New Government in Israel" Research Project
Field: Israeli politics; Political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; The development of Israeli democracy; The politics of American Jews
Tel: 09-9527291
Cell: 050-7476858
davidna@idc.ac.il


Arye Ratner
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Sociology (U. of Haifa)l Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences (U. of Haifa)
Field: Criminal justice system in Israel; Attitudes of Israeli Jews and Israeli; Arabs towards the legal system
Tel: 04-824-0010
04-824-0994
04-824-0995
arattner@soc.haifa.ac.il


Michael Shalev
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Depts. of Sociology and Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Development of economic institutions in the pre-state Yishuv; Factors affecting the political economy of modern Israel; Globalization; Transformation of Israel from a welfare state to welfare capitalism
Tel: 02-588-3319
Michael.shalev@huji.ac.il


Gabriel Sheffer
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Ethnic politics; Politics of ethno-national Diasporas; Leadership; Public policy and processes of change in Israel
Tel: 02-588-3161
msgabi@mscc.huji.ac.il


Yair Sheleg
Affiliation: Researcher, Israel Democracy Unit; Journalist, Ha’aretz
Field: Religion and state; Relationship between Israel’s ultra; Orthodox community and the Israel Defense Forces
Tel: 03-512-1280
03-512-1248
Cell: 050-743-9995
yairs@haaretz.co.il


Dov Shinar
Affiliation: Founder and Head, Center for Peace Journalism (Netanya Academic College); Professor Emeritus (Ben Gurion Univ.); Principal investigator, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Field: Evolving impact of the media on Israeli society and political culture; The media as a factor in Middle East peacemaking
Tel: 08-647-7211
08-647-7212
shinard@bgumail.bgu.ac.il


Yedida Z. Stern
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Law (Ben Gurion Univ.); Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Field: Business & Democracy; The role of Jewish law in matters of religion and state; Law in Israel
Tel: 03-531-7091


Gadi Taub
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Communication (Hebrew Univ.); Co-editor of Mikarov
Field: Contemporary Israeli society and culture; Influence of American ideas of Israel; Individualism and society; Philosophical pragmatism; Postmodernism; Post-Zionism
Tel: 02-588-2896
Cell: 052-468-1133
gaditaub@zahav.net.il


Hani Zubida
Affiliation: Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya
Through the Spokesperson
Field: Israeli electoral system; Social-mobility in Israeli society; Israeli democracy and its socio-economic and political realms; Voting behavior; Electoral analysis
09-960-2754
hzubida@idc.ac.il


Immigration and Absorption


Collete Avital
Affiliation: Member of Knesset, Labor Party; Veteran Israeli diplomat
Field: Immigration; Immigrant absorption; Diaspora affairs
Through her Spokesperson, Oded:
050-916-8884
avitalk@knesset.gov.il


Jacob Metzer
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Economics (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Immigration and the Jewish economy in Mandatory Palestine; Jewish migration in the 20th century; Economic history of modern Palestine and Israel; Economic aspects of ethno-national divides in history
Tel: 02-588-3242
Msmetzer@mscc.huji.ac.il


Inter-Faith Relations


Yossi Klein HaLevi
Affiliation: Israel Correspondent, The New Republic; Senior fellow, Shalem Center; Also wrote for The Jerusalem Post and The Los Angeles Times
Field: Issues affecting Israel's relationship with Diaspora Jewry; Palestinian rejectionists; Israeli inter-faith relations
Tel: 02-566-5555
khalevi@netvision.net.il


Dani Pattir
Affiliation: Editor-in-chief, Justice Magazine; Former spokesperson, Israeli Prime Minister’s office
Field: Co-existence between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens
Tel: 02-566-5133
tafjer@netvision.net.il


International Affairs


United States of America

Uzi Arad
Affiliation: Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya); Chairman of Atlantic Forum of Israel; Advisor to the Knesset on Foreign; Affairs and Defense; Former Foreign Policy Adviser to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu; Former Director of the intelligence division at the Mossad
Field: American and European-Israeli relations; Intelligence and National Security; Arab-Israeli conflict; Arms control and proliferations of weapons of mass destruction
Tel: 09-952-7389
Cell: 052-333-1626
Home: 03-642-1892
gamzu@netvision.net.il


Galia Bar-Nathan
Affiliation: Lecturer and professor, Dept. of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: International relations theory; Theories of international cooperation; Link between economic and security issues in East Asia; American foreign policy; The role of economic cooperation in the transition to peace; Transatlantic relations under; Unipolarity; U.S and regional economic cooperation in Asia in the 1950’s
Office: 02-588-1722
02-588-1101
Home: 08-971-7297
Cell: 050-640-0546
mspress@mscc.huji.ac.il


Roni Bart
Affiliation: Analyst, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); INSS
Field: Israel’s decision making processes; Israeli defense and security; Civil-military relations; Socio-military relations; Israeli National Security Council; Israeli public opinion; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Iraq: US forces, terror; Nuclear weapons proliferation
Office: 03-640-0400
ext. 462
Cell: 054-495-5345
ronib@inss.org.il


Yehuda Ben-Meir
Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Director at Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israel's decision making policy; Israeli defense and security; Israeli media and public diplomacy; Israeli public opinion; Israel-US relations
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469
Cell: 050-380-8849
benmeir@inss.org.il


Avi Ben-Zvi
Affiliation: Professor, Political Science (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: US-Israeli Relations
Cell: 052-549-0099
Tel: 04-837-0805
doreen@post.tau.ac.il


Shlomo Brom
Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; Revolution in military affairs; Deterrence, arms control, and balance of power; Low-intensity conflict
Tel: 03-640-0415
Cell: 050-633-3731
sbrom@inss.org.il


Eytan Gilboa
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies & Communication (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: American popular attitudes towards Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict; Increasing role of communications in international relations; Global communications and foreign policy
Tel: 09-746-7636
Cell: 052-860-7227
egilboa@mail.biu.ac.il


Mark Heller
Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islam
Tel: 03-640-0407
jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il


Itamar Rabinovich
Affiliation: Former Ambassador to the United States; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996)
Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations
Tel: 03-640-8348
itamarr@tauex.ac.il


Jonathon Rynhold
Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Science (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Israel and the peace process; US-Israel relations; Middle East-East Asia relations; Political culture; Foreign policy
Tel: 03-531-8873
rynhold@mail.biu.ac.il


Europe

Uzi Eilam
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli Defense Forces Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473
Cell: 054-533-3137
uzie@inss.org.il


Mark Heller
Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islamic movements
Tel: 03-640-0407
jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il


Avi Primor
Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies (IDC Herziliya); Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany
Field: Israel: Decision-making processes; Israel: defense and security; Israel: Civil-military relations; Israel: IDF; Israel: Nuclear & arms control policy; Israel: relations with Europe & NATO; Iran: Nuclear weapons development; Egypt: Israel, Nuclear; Terror: Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 09-960-2739
09-960-2740
Cell: 054-429-4750
cschael@idc.ac.il
zprimor@hotmail.com


Alfred Tovias
Affiliation: Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: The ongoing enlargement and deepening of the European Union (EU); Israel and the EU; Regionalism; The World Trade Organization
Tel: 02-588-1053
02-679-1450
mstovi@mscc.huji.ac.il


Africa

Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC Herziliya)
Field: International relations; International politics; The United Nations; Terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; Politics in Africa
Through his Spokesperson:
09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il
kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il


Asia-Eastern

Galia Bar-Nathan
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer of Internationals Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: International relations theory; Theories of international cooperation; Link between economic and security issues in East Asia; American foreign policy; The role of economic cooperation in the transition to peace; Transatlantic relations under Unipolarity; U.S and regional economic cooperation in Asia in the 1950’s
Tel: 02-588-1722
08-971-7297
Cell: 050-640-0546
mspress@mscc.huji.ac.il


Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC Herziliya)
Field: International relations; International politics; The United Nations; Terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; Politics in Africa
Through his Spokesperson:
09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il
kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il


Jonathon Rynhold
Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Science (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Israel and the peace process; US-Israel relations; Middle East-East Asia relations; Political culture; Foreign policy
Tel: 03-531-8873
rynhold@mail.biu.ac.il


Yitzhak Shichor
Affiliation: Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science (Univ. of Haifa) ;Senior Fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: China’s military modernization and defense conversion; Middle East policy in East Asia; East Asian democratization
Tel: 04-828-8524
02-588-2310
msshic@mscc.huji.ac.il


Egypt

Uzi Eilam
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473
Cell: 054-533-3137
uzie@inss.org.il


Mark Heller
Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islam
Tel: 03-640-0407
jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il


Eli Podeh
Affiliation: Head of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Modern history of the Arab Middle East; Inter-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli relations Egypt
Tel: 02-588-3673
09-743-1747
podeh@h2.hum.huji.ac.il

Iran

Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran
Through the Spokesperson:
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Uzi Eilam
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473
Cell: 054-533-3137
uzie@inss.org.il


Meir Javedanfar
Affiliation: Founder of Middle East Economic and Political Analysis organization
Field: Iran nuclear program, domestic politics, foreign politics; President Ahmadinejad
Cell: 054-207-1203
analysis@meepas.com


Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator of the Project on Terrorism at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Palestinian national movement; Fundamentalist Islamic movements; Low intensity conflicts; Terror organizations and strategy; Islamic fundamentalism; Hezbollah and Iran
Tel: 03-640-0409
anatk@inss.org.il


David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
menashri@post.tau.ac.il


Brenda Shaffer
Affiliation: Faculty member, the School of Political Science and Department of Asian Studies (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Iran; Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs; Ethnic politics and regime stability; Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Tel: 04-828-8531
bshaffer@univ.haifa.ac.il


Gerald Steinberg
Affiliation: Political Studies Department Chair; Founder of Conflict Management and Negotiation Program (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: International relations; Arms control; “Soft power” in the Middle East; Iranian nuclear program; NPT regime
Tel: 03-531-8043
steing@mail.biu.ac.il


Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450
zisser@post.tau.ac.il


Iraq

Baram Amatzia
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Middle East History (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Iraq 1920-2007, with an emphasis on 1968-2007; The Arab Shi’a, mainly in Iraq and Lebanon
Tel: 04-825-4825 Cell: 052-898-8301
baram@research.haifa.ac.il

Ronen Zeidel
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Rothberg School of International Students (Hebrew Univ.); Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Iraq; Persian Gulf
Through the Spokesperson:
Cell: 052-823-6347 vesnaronen@hotmail.com


Jordan


Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Through the Spokesperson:
Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Joseph Nevo
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Regional affairs; Political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian-Arab society
jnevo@research.haifa.ac.il


Lebanon


Major-General Ya’akov Amidror
Affiliation: Program Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs; Former head of the IDF's Research and Assessment Division; Former military secretary of the Defense Minister
Field: Contemporary guerrilla warfare; Hezbollah; Lebanon security dilemmas; Gaza security dilemma
Contact via Adam Shay, JCPA Project Coordinator
Tel.: 02-561-9281


Dr. Omri Nir
Affiliation: Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University; Published "The Shi'ites during the 1958 Lebanese Crisis," in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 6 (November 2004)
Field: Lebanese politics; Lebanese Shi'as and Shi'as in the Arab world
Cell: 054-479-9915


Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450
zisser@post.tau.ac.il


Russia


Galia Golan
Affiliation: Lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Israeli government, diplomacy, and strategy; Soviet and Russian policy in the Middle East
Tel: 09-952-7399
ggolan@idc.ac.il


Syria


Shlomo Brom
Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; Revolution in military affairs; Deterrence, arms control, and balance of power; Low-intensity conflict
Tel: 03-640-0415
Cell: 050-633-3731
sbrom@inss.org.il


Itamar Rabinovich
Affiliation: Former Ambassador to the United States; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996)
Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations
Tel: 03-640-8348
itamarr@tauex.ac.il


Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450
zisser@post.tau.ac.il


Saudi Arabia


Joseph Nevo
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Regional affairs; Political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian-Arab society
jnevo@research.haifa.ac.il


Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; Inter-Arab affairs
Tel: 03-640-6448
Cell: 054-431-2980
teitelba@post.tau.ac.il


Turkey


Anat Lapidot-Firilla
Affiliation: The Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University
Field: Turko-Iranian Relations; Gender in Turkey; Turkish-U.S. Relations
Phone: +972-2-5881988


Amikam Nachmani
Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University
Field: Contemporary history and politics of the eastern Mediterranean; Israel’s relations with Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus; Politics of water in the Middle East
Tel: 03-640-6448
Cell: 054-431-2980
teitelba@post.tau.ac.il


Middle East


Uzi Arad
Affiliation: Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya); Chairman of Atlantic Forum of Israel; Advisor to the Knesset on Foreign; Affairs and Defense; Former Foreign Policy Adviser to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu; Former Director of the intelligence division at the Mossad
Field: American and European-Israeli relations; Intelligence and National Security; Arab-Israeli conflict; Arms control and proliferations of weapons of mass destruction
Tel: 09-952-7389
Cell: 052-333-1626
Home: 03-642-1892
gamzu@netvision.net.il


Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran
Through the Spokesperson:
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Eitan Barak
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Arms control and disarmament; International security regimes; The Law of War (rules of belligerence); Israel’s arms control policy and the prospects of arms control regimes in the Middle East in the post-Saddam era
Tel: 02-588-3156
03-535-0678
eitanbarak@,mscc.huji.ac.il


Barak Oren
Affiliation: Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Comparative politics; State and society in the non-Western regions, especially the Middle East; Ethnic and national relations; Conflict and peace; The making of the Lebanese army
Tel: 02-588-3155
Cell: 02-581-3035
msornb@mscc.huji.ac.il


Guy Bechor
Affiliation: Lecturer of Arab Law, Radzyner Law School, and of Middle East Politics, Lauder School of Government (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Middle Eastern States; Arab-Israeli relations; Law in the Middle East; Israeli criminal procedures
Tel: 09-952-7316
gbechor@idc.ac.il


David Bukay
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Challenges and crises in the Middle East; International terror and Islam
Tel: 04-824-0484
04 -824-7795
Cell: 050-924-7795
bukay@poli.haifa.ac.il


Eytan Gilboa
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies & Communication (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: American popular attitudes towards; Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict; Increasing role of communications in international relations; Global communications and foreign policy
Tel: 09-746-7636
Cell: 052-860-7227
egilboa@mail.biu.ac.il


Jonet Ginat
Affiliation: Professor at Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa
Field: Regional political affairs; Concepts of honor in Arab political culture
Tel: 04-824-0156
04-824-6723
ginatj@research.haifa.ac.il
joseph.ginat-1@ou.edu


Galia Golan
Affiliation: Lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Israeli government, diplomacy, and strategy; Soviet and Russian policy in the Middle East
Tel: 09-952-7399
ggolan@idc.ac.il


Mark Heller
Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islam
Tel: 03-640-0407
jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il


Meir Javedanfar
Affiliation: Founder of Middle East Economic and Political Analysis organization
Field: Iran nuclear program, domestic politics, foreign politics; President Ahmadinejad
Cell: 054-207-1203
analysis@meepas.com


Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC Herziliya)
Field: International relations; International politics; The United Nations; Terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; Politics in Africa
Through his Spokesperson:
09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il
kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il


Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator of the Project on Terrorism at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Palestinian national movement; Fundamentalist Islamic movements; Low intensity conflicts; Terror organizations and strategy; Islamic fundamentalism; Hezbollah and Iran
Tel: 03-640-0409
anatk@inss.org.il


Dr. Meir Litvak
Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Middle Eastern History and a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Field: Political trends in the Arab world; Radical Islam; Palestinian Islamic movements and their political participation in the PA government
Tel.: 972-3-640-7404
Cell: 972-54-760-9115
E-mail: litvak@post.tau.ac.il


David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
menashri@post.tau.ac.il


Amikam Nachmni
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Field: Contemporary history and politics of the eastern Mediterranean; Israel’s relations with Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus; Politics of water in the Middle East
Office: 03-531-8158
Home: 02-566-4391
Cell: 054-498-3585
nachma@mail.biu.ac.il


Joseph Nevo
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Regional affairs; Political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian-Arab society
jnevo@research.haifa.ac.il


Eldad Pardo
Affiliation: Director of Research on Iran at The Truman Research Center (Hebrew Univ,)
Field: Strategy, culture, and politics in the Middle East, especially Iran, Turkey, and Israel
Tel: 02-588-3673
09-743-1747
podeh@h2.hum.huji.ac.il


Eli Podeh
Affiliation: Head of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Modern history of the Arab Middle East; Inter-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli relations Egypt
Tel: 02-588-3673
09-743-1747
podeh@h2.hum.huji.ac.il


Avi Primor
Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies (IDC Herziliya); Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany
Field: Israel: Decision-making processes; Israel: defense and security; Israel: Civil-military relations; Israel: IDF; Israel: Nuclear & arms control policy; Israel: relations with Europe & NATO; Iran: Nuclear weapons development; Egypt: Israel, Nuclear; Terror: Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 09-960-2739
09-960-2740
Cell: 054-429-4750
cschael@idc.ac.il
zprimor@hotmail.com


Uzi Rabi
Affiliation: Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Middle Eastern affairs; Arab-Israeli relations; Political and socioeconomic development of states in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Office: 03-640-6667/8
Tel: 09-958-9294
urabi@post.tau.ac.il


Itamar Rabinovich
Affiliation: Former Ambassador to the United States; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996)
Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations
Tel: 03-640-8348
itamarr@tauex.ac.il


Nissim Rejwan
Affiliation: Israeli scholar born in Iraq
Field: Israel’s place in the contemporary Middle East; Islam vs. the West; Status of minorities in Middle Eastern cultures
msdon@mscc.huji.ac.il


Barry Rubin
Affiliation: Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Arab-Israeli conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian movement; Inter-Arab affairs; Israel's international relations; Israeli foreign and security policy
Office: 09-970-2726
Tel: 03-528-7298
Cell: 052-473-2724
profbarryrubin@yahoo.com
gloria@idc.ac.il


Alisa Rubin-Peled
Affiliation: Academic Director, Argov Fellows Program in Diplomacy (IDC Herzliya), On Sabbatical until October 2008
Field: International political economy (with a focus on the Middle East); Business-government relations; Globalization; Israeli policy towards the religious institutions of the Muslim minority
Tel: 09-960-2767 Or
Through the Spokesperson
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Shmuel Sandler
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; Faculty member, Department of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Field: International politics and comparative government; Israeli politics and foreign policy; Ethno-national politics and foreign policy
Tel: 03-531-8381
sandls@mail.biu.ac.il


Amnon Sella
Affiliation: Head of the Diplomacy & Strategy Studies Division (IDC Herzliya)
Field: International politics; Israel’s foreign policy; War, peace, and strategic aspects of international relations
Through the Spokesperson
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Brenda Shaffer
Affiliation: Faculty member, the School of Political Science and Department of Asian Studies (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Iran; Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs; Ethnic politics and regime stability; Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Tel: 04-828-8531
bshaffer@univ.haifa.ac.il


Yitzhak Shichor
Affiliation: Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science (Univ. of Haifa); Senior Fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: China’s military modernization and defense conversion; Middle East policy in East Asia; East Asian democratization
Tel: 04-828-8524
02-588-2310
msshic@mscc.huji.ac.il


Dan Shiftan
Affiliation: Head of The National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Contemporary Middle East; Arab-Israeli relations
Tel: 04-824-0504
Cell: 050-546-0570
chotam@netvision.net.il


Emmanuel Sivan
Affiliation: Professor, The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Political leadership in the Middle East; Islam in historical perspective
Home: 02-643-1996
Office: 02-563-3356
emmanuelsivan@gmail.com


Gerald Steinberg
Affiliation: Political Studies Department Chair; Founder of Conflict Management and Negotiation Program (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: International relations; Arms control; “Soft power” in the Middle East; Iranian nuclear program; NPT regime
Tel: 03-531-8043
steing@mail.biu.ac.il


Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; Inter-Arab affairs
Tel: 03-640-6448
Cell: 054-431-2980
teitelba@post.tau.ac.il


Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450
zisser@post.tau.ac.il


International Law


Ariel Bendor
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Legal aspects of the current Israeli geopolitical situation
Home: 03 -573-3708
Mobile: 052-851-0007
abendor@research.haifa.ac.il


Eyal Benvenisti
Affiliation: Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law
(Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: International law; International legal aspects of Arab-Israeli conflict resolution
Tel: 03-640-6426
ebenve@post.tau.ac.il


Yehuda Blum
Affiliation: Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Legal status of Jerusalem; The refugee question; Palestinian self-determination; Israeli self defense; Settlements
Office: 2-588-2562
msblumy@mscc.huji.ac.il


Yoram Dinstein
Affiliation: Professor, International Law, Faculty of Law (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: International law and human rights; Legal issues affecting human rights; Relationship between democracy and national security
Tel: 03-640-8678
ydinstein@yahoo.com


Guy Harper
Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Law and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Public international law; Private international law; European Union EU) law; International trade; Dispute resolution; Regional economic integration; Peace promotion; Privatization
Office: 02-588-2561
Home: 02-534-6220
gharpaz@mscc.huji.ac.il


Moshe Hirsch
Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Law and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Public international law; International trade law; European Community law; International environmental law; Environmental cooperation in the Middle East; Rules of origin in Euro-Middle Eastern trade; Eastern trade
Office: 02-588-1177
Home: 02-643-5302
msmosheh@mscc.huji.ac.il


Justice Reid Weiner
Affiliation: Scholar-in-Residence, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Adjunct lecturer (Hebrew Univ. & Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: International legal issues affecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Human rights, status of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East
Tel: 03-6407381
justusdoc@yahoo.com
jusstus@netvision.net.il


International Terrorism


Steve Emerson
Affiliation: Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, the largest intelligence and data-gathering center in the world on militant activities; Regularly consulted by the White House, National Security Council, FBI, Justice Department, Congress and Intelligence Services; Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Field: International terrorism; National Security
Phone: 202-363-8602
E-mail: info@ctnews.org


Douglas Farah
Affiliation: President, IBI Consultants; Terrorism analyst and senior fellow at Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation (NEFA) and the International Assessment and Strategy Center; Worked with the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence
Field: Intelligence reform; Armed groups
Phone: 202-360-0802
E-mail: farahd@rcn.com


Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Affiliation: Vice President of Research, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Consults for Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism, the Christian Broadcasting Network and law enforcement agencies
Field: Terrorism; Islamic extremism
Phone: 202-207-0190
E-mail: daveed@defenddemocracy.org


Christopher Hamilton
Affiliation: Former FBI unit chief on Palestinian rejectionist groups; Oversaw the Terrorism Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Field: Palestinian rejectionist groups; Holy Land Foundation
Phone: 703-876-9481
E-mail: chrisnevis@aol.com


Aaron Mannes
Affiliation: Author, TerrorBlog and "Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations"; Analyst at University of Maryland’s Semantic Web Agents Group; Former director of research at Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Field: Terrorist networks; International and homeland security
Phone: 240-472-3839
E-mail: author@profilesinterror.com


Andrew C. McCarthy
Affiliation: Director, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Center for Law and Terrorism; Former federal prosecutor and a contributor at National Review Online; Led the prosecution against the jihad organzation of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman; Contributed to the prosecutions of the bombers of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Millennium plot attack Los Angeles International Airport; Supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City, coordinating investigative and preventive efforts with numerous federal and state law enforcement and intelligence agencies
Field: Prosecution of terror; Legal issues with terrorism
Phone: 202-207-0190 x130
E-mail: andrew@defenddemocracy.org


Neil Livingstone
Affiliation: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Action; Author of nine books on terrorism, security and foreign policy, including: "Inside the PLO," "The War Against Terrorism," and "Rescue My Child," which was an NBC movie-of-the-week; Published more than 200 articles in major newspapers
Field: Intelligence and national security
Phone: 202-223-4888; E-mail: nlivingstone@executiveaction.com


Israeli-Arabs


Majid Al-Haj
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Univ. of Haifa); Dean of Research; Head of The Center of Multiculturalism and Educational Research (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Status and political attitudes of Israeli Arabs; Minority rights in multicultural societies; Jewish and Arab popular attitudes in Israel
Office: 04-824-0836
m.alhaj@soc.haifa.ac


Clinto Bailey
Affiliation: Former Advisor for Shiite Affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Field: Bedouin culture; Status of Bedouins in Israel
Tel: 02-566-4860
Clinton.bailey@mail.trincoll.edu


Avraham Sela
Affiliation: A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Inter-Arab affairs; Political Islam; Changing conceptions of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Palestinian Hamas
Office: 02-588-2322
Home: 02-654-1193
msavse@mscc.huji.ac.il


Arnon Soffer
Affiliation: Head of Chair, Geostrategy (Univ. of Haifa); Vice Chairman of the National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Military and political geography of the Middle East; Israeli Arabs
Tel: 04-824-0146
Cell: 052-866-6434
soffer@geo.haifa.ac.il


Palestinians


Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Through the Spokesperson:
Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Gershon Baskin
Affiliation: Israeli CEO and founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
Field: Development of public policy aimed at advancing peace; Mechanisms for Israeli/Palestinian cooperation; Water and economic development issues in the peace process
Tel: 02-676-9460
gershon@ipcri.org
http://www.ipcri.org
http://www.walkthegreenline.org


Hillel Frisch
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at The BESA Center (Bar-Ilan Univ.)
Field: Evolution/Internal politics of the Palestinian national movement; Palestinian nationalism; Israeli Arabs; Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conflict resolution
Office: 03-531-7936
Home: 02-535-3593
Cell: 054-548-5909
hfrisch@mail.biu.ac.il


Amal Jamal
Affiliation: Head of Department of Political Science (Tel Aviv Univ.); Lecturer, Western Galilee College
Field: Jewish-Arab coexistence through education; Political trends among Israeli-Arabs; Nation and institution-building among the Palestinians; Political communication
Tel: 03-640-9061
ajamal@post.tau.ac.il


Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Contemporary Arab world; Islamism; Inter-Arab relations
bmaddy@post.tau.ac.il


Jimmy Weinblatt
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Ben-Gurion Univ.); Rector of Ben-Gurion Univ.
Field: Israel’s political economy; Palestinian economics; Economics of conflict resolution
Tel: 08-646-1105
weinb@bgu.ac.il


Strategic and Military Affairs


Shlomo Aronson
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Israel’s non-conventional military doctrine; Israeli foreign and security policies, particularly regarding: a) nuclear weapons, in connection with Arab and Iranian proliferation efforts and American policy b) the connection between domestic and foreign affairs
Office: 02-588-3278
Home: 03-529-9529
Shlomo1@hotmail.com


Roni Bart
Affiliation: Analyst, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); INSS
Field: Israel’s decision making processes; Israeli defense and security; Civil-military relations; Socio-military relations; Israeli National Security Council; Israeli public opinion; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Iraq: US forces, terror; Nuclear weapons proliferation
Office: 03-640-0400
ext. 462
Cell: 054-495-5345
ronib@inss.org.il


Avi Beker
Affiliation: Leads the Jewish Public Policy Project and the UN-Israel Institute at the Hartog School of Government and Policy (Tel Aviv Univ.); Lectures at Ashkelon Colleg; Columnist, Ha’aretz Daily
Field: Global and regional security affairs; Jewish history and Holocaust; World Jewish affairs; Immigration in Israel
Office: 03-640-5896
avibeker@post.tau.ac.il
azb@netvision.net.il


Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author of National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469
Tel: 050-380-8849
benmeir@inss.org.il


Gabriel Ben-Dor
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science; Director of the National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Israeli-Palestinian relations; Druze in Israel; Miscommunication in conflict; Peace process
Office: 04-824-0050
Cell: 052-866-6435
Home: 04-825-5780
bendor@poli.haifa.ac.il


Uri Ben-Eliezer
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Israeli “militarism”; Civil-military relations
Office: 04-824-9396
uriben@soc.haifa.ac.il


Zeev Bonen
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate, The BESA Center (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Israel’s weapons development; Weapons export industry
Office: 04-837-7787
bonen@netvision.net


Shlomo Brom
Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; Revolution in military affairs; Deterrence, arms control, and balance of power; Low-intensity conflict
Tel: 03-640-0415
Cell: 050-633-3731
sbrom@inss.org.il


Uzi Eilam
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473
Cell: 054-533-3137
uzie@inss.org.il


Yoav Gelber
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Land of Israel Studies (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Israeli military, political, and social history; Historiography of the Jewish-Arab conflict
Tel: 04-824-0851
ygelber@univ.haifa.ac.il


Efraim Inbar
Affiliation: Professor of political studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.); Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies
Field: Middle Eastern strategic issues; Politics and strategy of Israeli national security; Israeli politics
Office: 03-535-9198
Home: 09-746-7636
Cell: 054-660-3409
inbare@mail.biu.ac.il


Efraim Kam
Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Security problems of the Middle East; Strategic intelligence; Israel’s national security issues; Israeli Intelligence; US- Middle East policy; Arab World’s Defense budgets and military industry; Iran, Lebanon, and Hizbollah; Middle East Nuclear Procurement
Tel: 03-640-0400
Cell: 054-625-2844
ephraimk@post.tau.ac.il


Avi Kober
Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.); Senior Research Associate at The BESA Center (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Military thought; Israeli national security doctrine and policy; Arab-Israeli wars; Low-intensity conflicts
Office: 03-531-8107
Home: 09-740-6040
avik@doubt.com


Mordechai Kremnitzer
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Law (Hebrew Univ.); Senior Fellow of Israel Democracy Institute; Chairman of the Israel Press Council
Field: Education system; Israeli police system; Constitutional principles and their implementation; National security and democracy; Political corruption; Civil and human rights in times of security crises; Powers and responsibilities of Israel’s Security Services (Shin Bet) in its treatment of suspected terrorists
Tel: 02-588-2580
msmoka@mscc.huji.ac.il


Zvi Shtauber
Affiliation: Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel’s decision-making policy; Civil-military relations; Israeli intelligence
Tel: 03-640-0401
zvis@inss.org.il


Ehud Ya’ari
Affiliation: Chief Middle East Commentator, Israel Channel 2 Television; Associate editor, Jerusalem Report
Field: Regional security affairs; Conflict and conflict resolution
Tel: 02-589-2286
Yaari2@netvision.net.il


Territories & Settlements


Yossi Alpher
Affiliation: Coeditor of bitterlemons.org; Former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); Former special adviser to PM Ehud Barak
Field: Strategic aspects of peacemaking; Conflict management/conflict resolution; Settlements and borders
Tel : 02-644-9186
Cell: 052-298-9299
yalpher@netvision.net.il


Herb Keinon
Affiliation: Veteran diplomatic correspondent, The Jerusalem Post
Field: Jewish residents of the West Bank; Israeli popular attitudes towards the settlements
Cell: 050-205-2616
keinon@netvision.net


Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Affiliation: Advisory Board Member, Endowment for Middle East Truth
Field: West Bank settlements; Chief Rabbi of the West Bank settlement Efrat
Tel: 02-548-8444
rabbiriskin@ohrtorahstone.org.il


Terrorism & Religious Extremism


Ephraim Asculai
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Proliferation and control of weapons of mass destruction
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 441 Cell: 054-666-6323
hona24@zahav.net.il


Eitan Azani
Affiliation: Deputy Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Iran and Shiite Terrorism; Hezbollah and the Lebanese theater; Global Jihad Movements; Terror Financing
Through the Spokesperson:
09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Yehuda Ben-Meir
Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Director at Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469
Cell: 050-380-8849
benmeir@inss.org.il


Uzi Eilam
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473
Cell: 054-533-3137
uzie@inss.org.il


Haggai Erlich
Affiliation: Professor of Ethiopian and Middle East History (Tel Aviv Univ. and Open Univ.)
Field: Political and social trends in Arab and Islamic societies; Militant forms of political Islam; Revolutionary movements in Islam; Modernity. Vs. Arab traditionalism (especially in Egypt)
erlich@post.tau.ac.il


Jonathon (Yoni) Fighel
Affiliation: Senior Researcher (IDC Herzliya); Former Military Governor of Ramallah, Jenin, and Tul Karem
Field: Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority; Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad; Security policy in the territories; Fighting terrorism; Suicide terrorism; Islamic culture
Tel: 09-952-7364
09-952-7277
pr@idc.ac.il


David Friedman
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Field: Non-conventional weapons in the Arab world; Biological weapons proliferation; Chemical weapons proliferation; Non-conventional terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 475
davidf@inss.org.il


Boaz Ganor
Affiliation: Executive Director and CEO, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Terror strategies; Definition of Terror; Terror and the Media and public opinion; Terrorism and democracy; Counter-terrorism strategy; Unconventional terrorism; Suicide attacks; The peace process and terror; Relations between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; Israeli and coping with terror; Coping with countries supporting terror; Dilemmas in counter-terrorism
Tel: 09-952-7358
Cell: 052-447-8000
ganor@idc.ac.il


Ely Karmon
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya)
Field: International terrorism; Strategic issues in the Middle East and beyond; Weapons of mass destruction
Tel: 09-952-7277
09-951-3768
Cell: 052-265-3306
ekarmon@idc.ac.il


Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC Herziliya)
Field: International relations; International politics; The United Nations; Terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; Politics in Africa
Through his Spokesperson:
09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il
kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il


Martin Kramer
Affiliation: Wexler-Fromer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Washington, DC); Olin Institute Senior Fellow at Harvard University (US); Adelson Institute Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem
Field: Muslim fundamentalism; Impact of Islamization of Arab political culture; Inter-Arab affairs; Quality of Middle East scholarship in the West
Kramer-query@usa.net
http://www.martinkramer.org


Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator of the Project on Terrorism at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Palestinian national movement; Fundamentalist Islamic movements; Low intensity conflicts; Terror organizations and strategy; Islamic fundamentalism; Hezbollah and Iran
Tel: 03-640-0409
anatk@inss.org.il


Moshe Marzuk
Affiliation: Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzilya)
Field: Terror organizations in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran; Iran’s serving as a proxy to terrorist organizations
Through Spokesperson:
Tel: 09-952-7376
pr@idc.ac.il


David Menashri
Affiliation: Head of the Center for Political Violence (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
menashri@post.tau.ac.il


Ariel Merari
Affiliation: Head of the Center for Political Violence (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Political violence; Psychology of terrorism; Suicidal terrorism; Deterrence of state-sponsors of terrorism and sub-state terror groups
Office: 03-640-8978
merari@post.tau.ac.il


Paz Reuven
Affiliation: Director, The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Ideological, cultural, political, and social roots of Islamic movements and terrorism; Impact of Islamic radicalism on Palestinian politics; Financing of Middle East terrorist organizations; Iran’s sponsorship of international Islamic terrorism
Home: 09-950-7317
Cell: 054-469-1777
reupaz@netvision.net.il
pazlek@aol.com
http://www.ict.org.il
http://www.e-prism.org


Yoram Schweitzer
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow and Director, Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Regional and international terrorism
Tel: 03-640-0411
Cell: 054-727-7474
jcsssy@post.tau.ac.il
yorams@inss.org.il
yamatz@netvision.net.il
www.labat.co.il


Yael Shahar
Affiliation: Director, Database and Internet Project, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya)
Field: Cyber Terrorism; International Terrorist Organizations
Office: 09-792-6447
Cell: 054-421-7828
050-892-8993
webmaster@ict.org.il


Shabtai Shavit
Affiliation: Chairman and Board of Directors, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya); Former head of Mossad
Field: Counter-terrorism
Through the Spokesperson:
Tel: 09-960-2754
pr@idc.ac.il


Dani Shoham
Affiliation: Senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.)
Field: Chemical and biological warfare in the Middle East
Office: 03-696-8953
shoham_d@netvision.net.il


Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Affiliation: Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya
Field: Middle East affairs; Israel-Palestinian conflict; International politics
Cell: 972-52-878-3591
jspyer@idc.ac.il


Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; Inter-Arab affairs
Tel: 03-640-6448
Cell: 054-431-2980
teitelba@post.tau.ac.il


Gabriel Weimann
Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Communication (Univ. of Haifa)
Field: Terrorists' use of the internet; Public opinion research; Media psychology; The interplay between modern international terrorism and the mass media; Right-wing extremism in Israel; The challenges modern terrorism poses to Israel and other democratic societies
Office: 04-824-9598
Cell: 054-487-3713
weimann@soc.haifa.ac.il


Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Field: History and modern politics of Syria and Lebanon; Hezbollah; Syrian support of Palestinian terror factions; Iranian involvement in anti-Israel terror; Arab-Israeli conflict
Tel: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450
zisser@post.tau.ac.il


Women In Politics & Society


Hanna Herzog
Affiliation: Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Tel Aviv Univ.); Director, Civil Society Umbrella, Van Leer Institute
Field: Societal attitudes towards the role of women in Israeli politics; Gender politics among Israeli Arabs
hherzog@post.tau.ac.il


World Food Shortages


Ayal Kimhi
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Economics of developing nations; Wheat prices
Tel: 08-948-9376
Cell: 054-888-2043

Baruch Rubin
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Extermination of weeds in field crops and orchards; How present-day agricultural changes will affect food supply
Tel: 08-948-9248
Cell: 054-882-0054

Yakir Plessner
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: The Israeli economy; Agricultural planning
Tel: 08-948-9373
Cell: 050-560-3340


Shuki Saranga
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: The search for genetic sources for the improvement of plant sustainability under stressful conditions
Tel: 08-948-9040
Cell: 054-882-0411


Ram Reifen
Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Nutritional Sciences (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Issues relating to food availability and health, including influences on child growth and women in pregnancy
Tel 1: 08-948-9020
Tel 2: 08-946-7979


Yoni Elkind
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Plant breeding; Vegetable growth; The influence of water shortages
Tel: 08-948-9246
Cell: 054-882-0214


Zionism


Michel Abitol
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Zionism in France and North Africa; Contemporary history of North African Jewry; French Jewry in the 20th century; Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Africa
Tel: 02-588-2600
Cell: 050-647-6330
msmabit@mscc.huji.ac.il


Shmuel Almog
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: History of Zionism; Nationalism; Was Herzl a Jewish nationalist
Tel: 02-588-2494
msalmog@mscc.huji.ac.il


Haim Avni
Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History (Hebrew Univ.); Head of the Division for Latin America Spain and Portugal since 1967
Field: Zionism; The Jews of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal; Immigration and communal history; Jewish-Gentile relations
Tel: 02-588-2489
heavni@mscc.huji.ac.il


Michael Bar-Zohar
Affiliation: Veteran political and military analyst; Former political advisor to Moshe Dayan, Yitzchak Rabin, and Shimon Peres
Field: Zionist and Israeli history
Tel: 03-641-3030
michelbar@aol.com


Yehuda Baur
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Hebrew University
Field: Zionist history; Anti-Semitism; Holocaust and genocide; World War II
Tel: 02-588-1005
yehudabauer@hotmail.com


Yosef Gorny
Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Head, Zionist Research Institute
Field: Intellectual and ideological roots of Zionism; British influence on Zionism during the Mandatory period
Tel: 03-640-9175
Tel: 03-640-9277
gorny@post.tau.ac.il


Yoram Hazony
Affiliation: Shalem Center, Founding President; Member of the Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference
Field: Historical and contemporary challenges affecting Zionism and Israel
Tel 1: 02-566-5500
Tel 2: 02-566-5515
yhazony@shalem.org.il
media@shalem.org.il


Joseph Heller
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Early history of Zionism and Israel; Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Zionist right’s response to British Mandate policy
Tel: 02-588-3157
msjh@mscc.huji.ac.il


Israel Kolatt
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: History of Zionism; Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel; The Jewish labor movement; Socialism and nationalism; Historiography
Tel: 02-588-2387


Hagi Hadassa Lavsky
Affiliation: Lecturer, Jewish Philosophy (Hebrew Univ.); Researcher, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Field: History of the Zionist Movement, in general, in Germany; Jewish life in post-Holocaust Germany; Economic and social history of the; Jewish community in Mandatory ;Palestine; Jewish migrations in the 20th century; Jewish immigration to Palestine between the World Wars
Tel: 02-588-2381
Hagit.lavsky@huji.ac.il


Anita Shapira
Affiliation: Head, The Chaim Weitzman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel; Professor of Modern Jewish History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Director of the Yitzchak Rabin Center
Field: Zionism; Zionist historiography
Tel 1: 03-640-9680
Tel 2: 03-640-9277
ashapira@post.tau.ac.il


Gideon Shimoni
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: The history of Zionism; The history of Jewish communities in countries of the British Commonwealth; Israel-Diaspora relations; Zionism since the establishment of Israel; South African Jewry and the transformation of South Africa
Tel: 02-588-2386
shimoni@h2.hum.huji.ac.il


Zeev Sternhell
Affiliation: Leon Blum Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.)
Field: Jewish nationalism; History of Zionism and the State of Israel; Pre-state (Yishuv) period; Fascism in Europe and its impact on Jewish history
Tel: 02-588-3163
mszeevst@mscc.huji.ac.il


Robert Wistrich
Affiliation: Neuberger chair for Modern European History (Hebrew Univ.)
Head, International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Field: History of Zionism; European Jewry; Contemporary forms of international anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Tel: 02-588-3627
Robert.wistrich@huji.ac.il
natalf@h2.hum.huji.ac.il


Moti (Mordechai) Zalkin
Affiliation: Senior lecturer, Department of Jewish History (Ben Gurion Univ.)
Field: Modern Jewish and Zionist history; History of the traditional Eastern; European Jewish society
Tel: 08-647-2242
Cell: 050-699-4672
zalkin@bgumail.bgu.ac.il


Agriculture, Technology, Exports


Spokeswoman of Centre for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO)
Daphna Yoresta
E-mail: cinadco@moag.gov.il
Phone: 972 3 948 5436
www.cinadco.com


Marketing Manager, Netafim
Ofra Ram
E-mail: postmaster@netafim.com
Phone: 972 864 74747 or 972 8 647 3983
http://www.netafim.com/


Polysack, Marketing Division
Nir Zalmanov
E-mail: sales@polysack.com
Phone: 972 8 998 9720/1
Fax: 972 8 998 9710
www.polysack.com


General Manager of Agritech International
Dan Meiri
Phone: 972 3 972 7578


The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute; Executive of Agrotechnology Department
Yitzhak Kiriati
E-mail: kiriati@export.gov.il
Phone: 972 3 514 2868


Alternative Energy


Public Relations Officer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
Cochy Abuharon
Tel: 972-8-6596710
Fax: 972-8-6563411
Cell: 972-52-5793072
Email: cochy@bgu.ac.il


Weizmann Institute of Science; Solar Research Facilities; Expert on bio-gas and bio-mass
Roman Adinberg
E-mail: Roman.Adinberg@weizmann.ac.il
Tel: 972-8-934-3779
Fax: 972-8-934-4117
Office: Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research 303


Hebrew University; Department of Organic Chemistry; Expert on fuel cells
Zeev Aizenshtat
Office: Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: 972-2-658-5561
Fax: 972-2-652-8250
E-mail zeev@vms.huji.ac.il


Expert on batteries and storage
Doron Aurbach
Office address:
Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
Building: 211; Room: 205
Tel.: 972-3-531-8317
Fax: 972-3-738-4053
E-mail: aurbach@mail.biu.ac.il


Expert on hydropower
Dvora Barnea
Office: Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel: 972-3-640-8504
Tel: 972-3-640-8930 (secretary)
Fax: 972-3-640-7334
E-mail: dbarnea@eng.tau.ac.il


Expert on solar energy
Sergey Biryukov
Office: BGU, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
Tel.: 972-8-659-6737
Fax: 972-8-659-6736
E-mail: beryukov@bgu.ac.il


Director, Department of Publications & Media Relations, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Faye Bittker
Tel: 972-8-6461753; Fax: 972-8-66472803; Cell: 972-52-8795863;
Email: fbittker@bgu.ac.il


Expert on Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Air Pollution
David Broday (D.Sc)
Tel: 972-4-829-3468
Fax: 972-4-822-1529
E-mail: dbroday@tx.technion.ac.il


Alternative Energy Commission in the U.S.
California Energy Commission
Media & Communications Office
1516 Ninth Street, MS-29
Sacramento, CA 95814 USA
Tel (US): 1-916-654-4989
E-mail: mediaoffice@energy.state.ca.us


Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Division of Environmental, Water and Agricultural Engineering; Expert on Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Air Pollution
Yohay Carmel (Ph D)
Tel: 972-4-829-2609
E-mail: yohay@tx.technion.ac.il
Web site: http ://envgis.technion.ac.il/


Tel Aviv University, School of Mechanical Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
Expert on Nuclear Energy
Abraham Dayan
Office: Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel.: 972-3-640-8443
Fax: 972-3-642-9540
E-mail: dayan@eng.tau.ac.il


Director, National Solar Energy Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Prof. David Faiman
Tel: 972-8-6596933
Fax: 972-8-6596736
Email: faiman@bgu.ac.il


Media Advisor to President Shimon Peres
Ayelet Frish
Tel: 972-2-670-7256
Cell: 972-50-620-5111
Fax: 972-2-670-7295
E-mail: ayeletf@president.gov.il


Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Expert on alternative energy in the U.S.
Dr. Gal Luft
Tel (US): 202-271-0531
E-mail: luft@iags.org
Web site: http://www.iags.org/galluft.htm


Alternative Energy Company in the U.S.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3393 USA
Tel (US): (Main): 1-303-275-3000
Tel (US): (Photovoltaics): 1-303-384-6491
Tel (US) : Public Affairs: 1-303-275-4090


President of Israel
Pres. Shimon Peres
3 Hanassi Street, Jerusalem, 92188 Israel
Tel.: 972-2-6707211
Fax: 972-2-5611033
E-mail: president@president.gov.il


Government experts on alternative energy
San Fernando Valley Office (US)
5000 Van Nuys Blvd.
Suite 420, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Phone (US): 1-818-501-9200
Fax (US): 1-818-501-1554


Alternative Energy Company in the U.S.
Schott Solar, Inc.
Roseville, CA 95661 USA
Tel (US): 1 916-774-3000
Fax (US): 1 916-784-9781
Web site: http://www.us.schott.com/photovoltaic/english/index.html


U.S. Representative
Brad Sherman
Washington, D.C. Office
2242 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515-0524
Tel (US): 1-202-225-5911
Fax (US): 1-202-225-5879


Director, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute; Expert on nanotechnology Uri Sivan (Ph D)
Sivan, Uri (Ph D)
Tel.: 972-4-829-3452/972-4-829-5596
Fax: 972-4-823-5107
E-mail: phsivan@tx.technion.ac.il


Professor Emiritus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Expert on alternative energy in Israel
Dan Zaslavsky
Tel.: 972-4-823-2319 /972-4-829-2746
Fax: 972-4-829-2746
E-mail: agdanz@tx.technion.ac.il


American Jewry


Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Malcolm Hoenlein
Tel.: 212-318-6111 (office)
E-mail: info@conferenceofpresidents.org
Web site: www.conferenceofpresidents.org


Arab Rights


Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Director, The Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation
Dr. Elie Rekhess
E-mail: relie@post.tau.ac.il or e-rekhess@northwestern.edu
Web site: http://tau.ac.il/dayancenter/people/erekhess.htm


International Communication Coordinator, Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Melanie Takefman
Tel: 972-2-652-1218
E-mail: melanie@acri.org.il
Web Site: www.acri.org.il


Christian Affairs


Professor of human rights and international law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Author of "Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society," published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, www.jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm
Justus Reid Weiner
Tel.: 972-2-561-9281
email: justusdocs@yahoo.com


Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Data on Israel's Christian Population Press Relations Unit
http://www.cbs.gov.il/
Tel.: 972-2-652 7845; cell: 972-50-623 5124


Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality
Rafi Shami
Tel.: 972-2-629-7744


Foreign Press Liaison, Israeli Ministry of Tourism
Jonathan Pulik
Tel.: 972-2-666-4207
cell: 972-54-300-1971


Spokesman for the Civil Administration in the West Bank
Zidky Maman
Cell: 972-50-623-4081


Coordinator for Activities in the Territories
Shlomo Dror
Tel.: 972-3-697-7138
cell: 972-50-623-4053


United States


Oral Roberts University, chairman and associate professor of history, Department of History, Humanities, and Government
John W. Swails III, Ph.D.,
Tel.: 918- 495-6077
email: jswails@oru.edu


International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, vice president of marketing and communications
Ray Pokorny
Tel.: 800-486-8844
email: rpokorny@ifcj.org


Divestment from Iran


Co-Founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and Director, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation
Debra Burlingame
e-mail: db@911familiesforamerica.org


Vice President, Center for Security Policy and National Director, Center for Security Policy’s Divest Terror Initiative
Christopher Holton
Tel: 202-302-1974; e-mail: holton@centerforsecuritypolicy.org


Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University; currently Visiting Professor, University of Maryland
Orde Kittrie
Tel (office): 410-706-7949 or 202-276-5226 (cell);
e-mail: okittrie@law.umaryland.edu


Economics


Hebrew language publication
Globes
127 Yigal Alon St.
Tel Aviv 67443
Tel.: 972-3-697-9797
English-language Web site: www.globes-online.com


Professor of economics at ESCP-EAP business school; Paris specialist in Israel economy
Prof. Daniel Rouach
E-mail: drouach@rouach.net
Phone: 33 149 232 265 or 33 608 324 264


Environment


Spokesperson, Ministry of Environmental Protection
Sharon Achdut
Tel.: 972-2-655-3716
E-mail: l_dover@sviva.co.il
Web site: www.sviva.gov.il


Department Head, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Pinhas Alpert
Tel.: (direct): 972-3-640-5689
Tel.: (general): 972-3-640-8633
E-mail: pinhas@cyclone.tau.ac.il
Web site: http://geophysics.tau.ac.il/personal/pinhas/ or http://www.nasa.proj.ac.il


Attorney, Israel Union for Environmental Defense
Tamar Gannot
Tel.: 972-3-566-9939 ext. 220
E-mail: tami@iued.org.il
Web site: http://www.adamteva.org.il/english


The Institute of the Earth Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alexander Khain
Tel.: (office): 972-2-658-5822
Tel.: (cell): 972-54-788-3481
E-mail: khain@vms.huji.ac.il


Senior Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Ilan Koren
Tel.: 972-8-934-2522
E-mail: Ilan.Koren@weizmann.ac.il


The Goldemberg Chair Professor in Atmospheric Physics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University
Zev Levin
Tel.: (office): 972-3-640-8274
Tel.: (laboratory): 972-3-640-8242
E-mail: zevlev@post.tau.ac.il
Web site: http://geophysics.tau.ac.il/personal/zev


Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Program of Atmospheric Sciences, Hebrew University
Daniel Rosenfeld
Tel.: 972-2-658-5821
E-mail: daniel@vms.huji.ac.il


Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, Weizmann Institute of Science
Yinon Rudich
Tel.: 972-8-934-4237
E-mail: yinon.rudich@weizmann.ac.il
Web site: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ESER/People/Yinon-Rudich/index.html


Co-founder, Jewish Climate Initiative
Rabbi Julian Sinclair
Tel.: 972-54-779-4553
E-mail: julianbsinclair@yahoo.com


EU-Israel Relations


Brussels


Israeli Ambassador to the EU
Amb. Ran Curiel
E-mail: ambeu-sec@brussels.mfa.gov.il
Phone: +32 02 373 55 24


Director of European Friends of Israel
Dimitri Dombret
E-mail: director@efi-eu.org
Phone:+ 32 2 235 72 72
www.efi-eu.org


Executive Director, Transatlantic Institute
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Phone: +32 2 500 72 80
E-mail: ottolenghie@transatlanticinstitute.org


Israel


Former Israeli Ambassador to the EU; Representative of the World Jewish Congress in Israel
Amb. Oded Eran
E-mail: odederan@hotmail.com
Phone: + 972 542-488-600


Jean Monnet Lecturer; Director for the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sharon Pardo, PhD
E-mail: pardos@bgu.ac.il
Phone : + 972 54 300 7551


Head of the Israel-Europe Project, a program which seeks to develop ties and avenues of cooperation between Israel & Europe
Amb. Freddy Eytan
E-mail: fredeytan@gmail.com
Phone: + 972 54 200 6067


Former Political Director and Advisor on Middle Eastern issues to MEP Hannu Takkula, ALDE
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen
E-mail: susanna.kokkonen@gmail.com
Phone: +972 545 313122


The ongoing enlargement and deepening of the European Union (EU); Israel and the EU; Regionalism; The World Trade Organization
Alfred Tovias
Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.)
Tel: 02-588-1053
02-679-1450
mstovi@mscc.huji.ac.il


U.S.


Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Member of the Executive Committee, Israel Association for the Study of European Integration
Co-founder, Israeli European Policy Network
Dr. Joel Peters, PhD
E-mail: Peters25@vt.edu
Phone (home) : + 1 301 657 3697
Phone (cell) : + 1 202 465 5623


France-Israel Relations


Israel’s Ambassador to France
H.E. Daniel Shek
Tel. : +33 1.40.76.55.68
E-mail: porteparole@paris.mfa.gov.il


President of CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France, English: Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions)
Dr. Richard Prasquier
Tel. +33 1 42 17 11 11
E-mail : infocrif@crif.org


Professor of sociology at Paris X-University
Shmuel Trigano
Tel. : +33 1 42 39 27 53 or +33 6 24 66 26 06
E-mail: shmuel.trigano@gmail.com


Political analyst and advisor to The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI); Paris Editorial writer for the Financial Times; Die Welt (Germany), Ouest France
Dominique Moisi
Tel. : +33 6 07 91 69 27
E-mail: dpintmoisi@aol.com


Zionism in France and North Africa; Contemporary history of North African Jewry; French Jewry in the 20th century; Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Africa
Michel Abitol
Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.)
Tel: 02-588-2600
Cell: 050-647-6330
msmabit@mscc.huji.ac.il


Professor of political science, Aix-en-Provence University
Prof. Raphaël Drai
Tel. : +33 6 20 54 79 63
E-mail: raphaeldrai@free.fr


Professor of economics at ESCP-EAP business school; Paris specialist in Israel economy
Prof. Daniel Rouach
Tel. : +33 1 49 23 22 65 or +33 6 08 32 42 64
E-mail: drouach@rouach.net


Former spokesman of Israel Defense Forces, Director of Infolive.tv news channel
Olivier Rafowicz
Tel. : +33 6 20 54 79 63
E-mail: olivierrafowicz@gmail.com


Israel


Head of press department, French Embassy in Israel
Mariam Diallo
Tel. : + 972 3 520 8303/13
E-mail : mariamdiallo@diplomatie.gouv.fr


French spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister’s Office
Gali Cohen
Tel. : + 972 50 628 6831
E-mail : Gali.Cohen@it.pmo.gov.il


Deputy spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem
Emmanuel Nahshon
E-mail : emmanuel.nahshon@mfa.gov.il


Former spokesperson of Israel Embassy to France; Communications and marketing director for Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal
Yosh Amishav
Email: yehoshua@khuia.org.il


Lecturer, international relations, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Emmanuel Navon
Tel. : +972-2-9938555 or +972 544 844 394
E-mail: emmanuel@navon.com


Spokesman for Israeli Foreign Ministry
Ygal Palmor
Tel. : +972-2 53 03 290 or +972 056 20 32 77
E-mail: palmor@mfa.gov.il


Freedom of Press


Bar-Ilan University
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Tel. (office): 972-3-531-8578


Israel Ministry of Communications, Spokesman
Yehiel Shabi
Tel.: 972-2-670-6323
E-mail: sarbiy@moc.gov.il


Bar-Ilan University
Shlomo Shapiro
Tel. (office): 972-3-531-8108
E-mail: sshpiro@isdn.net.il


Hebrew University
Gadi Wolfsfeld
Tel. (office): 972-2-588-3272


Healthcare


M.D., MPH, Director General, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dr. Barbash has served as director general of Israel’s Ministry of Health and regularly speaks about Israel’s health care system to international audiences. See article: http://www.jstandard.com/articles/3963/1/Medical-expert-contrasts-U.S.,-Israeli-health-care
Dr. Gabriel I. Barbash
Tel.: 972-3-697-4212
Fax: 972-3-697-4433


Spokesperson, Israeli Ministry of Health
Shimon Einav
Tel.: 972-2-670-5056
E-mail: dover@moh.health.gov.il
Web site: www.health.gov.il/english


Director, JDC-Middle East Program
Randi Garber
E-mail: randig@jdc.org.il
http://www.ashalim.org.il and http://brookdale.pionet.com/


Public Affairs Director, Barzilai Medical Center
Leah Malul
Tel.: (office): 972-8-674-5766
Tel.: (cell): 972-8-674-5838
Email: leama@barzi.health.gov.il


Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Spokesman, Yad Sarah
David Rothner
Tel.: 972-2-644-4430
E-mail: davidr@yadsarah.org.il


Deputy Director General and Director of Medicine & Healthcare Department, The Peres Center for Peace
Dr. Danny Shanit
Tel.: 972-3-568-0680
E-mail: info@peres-center.org
Web site: http://www.peres-center.org/SectionProject.asp?cc=01140201


Spokesman, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer
David Weinberg
Tel.: 972-3-530-2473
E-mail: David.Weinberg@sheba.health.gov.il


Humanitarian Aid


Manager of Immigrants Absorption Program, Kibbutz Eilot
Daphna Bar
Tel.: 972-8-635-8666
Cell:972-52-393-0731
E-mail: eilot-res@eilot.ardom.co.il
Web site: http://www.eilot.co.il/en/index.html


Coordinator Public Relations Desk, Magen David Adom
Israel Jaqueline Brown
Tel.: 972-73-263-0004
E-mail: jacquelineb@mdais.co.il
Web site: http://www.mdais.com/


Director of Almagor Terror victims
Meir Indor
Cell: 972-54-440-3636

Director, Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team (FIRST)
Dr. Efraim Laor
Tel: 972-4-6709 944
Fax: 972-4-6709 945
E-mail: laor10@zahav.net.il
Web site: http://www.israaid.org.il/member_page.asp?id=6


Organization - means "to give" in Hebrew
Latet
Tel.: 972-3-683-3388
E-mail: latet@latet.org.il
Web site: http://www.latet.org.il/english


Public Relations Manager, The Hotline for Migrant Workers
Ron Lefkovitz
Tel: 972-3-560-2530
Fax: 972-3-560-5175
E-mail: info@hotline.org.il
Web site: http://www.hotline.org.il


Manager of Arad Office, The World Union of Jewish Students
Institute (WUJS) in Arad
Merav Leyba
Tel: 972-8-995-5370
Fax: 972-8-995 5472
E-mail: merav@wujsarad.org
Web site: http://www.wujs-arad.org/index.htm


Center for International Cooperation
MASHAV
E-mail: mashav@haigud.org.il
Fax: 972-2-651-2636
Web site:
http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/missionhome.asp?MissionID=1
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Organization - sends medical volunteers to perform free cardiac surgeries on children in developing countries
Save A Child’s Heart
(Israel Office)
Tel: 972-3-558-9656
Fax: 972-3-558-9657
E-mail: sach@barak-online.net
Web site: http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html


Spokesman, Committee for Advancement for Darfur Refugees (CARD)
Eytan Schwartz
Tel.: 972-54-794-9417
E-mail: business@eytanschwartz.com or eytan@eytanschwartz.com
Web site: http://www.eytanschwartz.com/english


Founder and Coordinator, IsraAID - The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid
Shachar Zahavi
Tel.: 972-54-567-9979
E-mail: szahavi@hotmail.com or info@israaid.org.il
Web site: http://www.israaid.org.il


Iran


American Foreign Policy Council; Author ("Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States" (2005)); Vice President for Policy
Ilan Berman
Tel: 202-543-1006 (office)
http://www.afpc.org/berman.shtml


Sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame, III, pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11; Co-founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America; Director, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation
Debra Burlingame
Tel: 914-844-3146
E-mail: db@911familiesforamerica.org


Deputy Director for Research,
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Patrick Clawson, Ph.D.
Tel: 202-452-0650 ext. 220 (office), 202-302-1722 (cell);
E-mail: pclawson@washingtoninstitute.org; http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=10


President, The Center for Security Policy and Founder, DivestTerror.org
Frank Gaffney
Tel: 202-253-9433 (cell)
E-mail: gaffney@centerforsecuritypolicy.org;
www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org


Senior National Security Analyst, Center for American Progress
Andrew Grotto
Tel: 202-682-1611 (office)
E-mail: agrotto@americanprogress.org


Visiting Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Larry Haas
Tel: 202-257-9592 (cell)
www.larryhaasonline.com


Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel
Jeremy Issacharoff
Tel: 202-364-5578 (office)
www.israelemb.org


Secretary General, Iranian American Jewish Federation
Sam Kermanian
Tel: 310-854-1199 (office, direct)
E-mail: skermanian@tradeattache.com


Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
Orde Kittrie
Tel: 480-727-8572 (office)
E-mail: orde.kittrie@asu.edu


Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Dr. Michael Ledeen
Tel: 202-862-5800
E-mail: mledeen@aei.org
www.aei.org/scholars


Editor, Iranwatch.org
Valerie Lincy
Tel: 202-223-8299 (office
E-mail: valerie@wisconsinproject.org; http://www.iranwatch.org/


Consultant and Former Executive Director, Iran Policy Committee
Claire Lopez
Tel: 703-583-9573 (office)
E-mail: clairelopez@gmail.com


President and Executive Director, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Cliff May
Tel: 202-207-0190 (office), 202-207-0184 (direct);
E-mail: cliff@defenddemocracy.org; www.defenddemocracy.org


Executive Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
Gary Milhollin
Tel: 202-223-8299 (office); E-mail: info@wisconsinproject.org


Founder and President, The Israel Project
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Tel: 202-857-6644 (office)
www.theisraelproject.org


Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Peter W. Rodman,
Tel: 202-797-6000 (office)
http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/prodman.htm


Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Michael Rubin
Tel: 202-862-5851 (office)
Fax: 202-862-4877
E-mail: mrubin@aei.org


Vice President, Director of Studies and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
Gary Samore
Tel: 212-434-9627 (office)
Fax: 212-434-9870
E-mail: gsamore@cfr.org; www.cfr.org/bios/4643


Former U.S. Senator (R-Penn.), Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Rick Santorum
Contact Virginia Davis:
Cell: 215-528-9368
Home office: 610-658-9658
E-mail: virginiad@ricksantorum.com, virginiadavis05@gmail.com


D-Calif., Member, Committee on International Relations Ranking Member; Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman
Tel: 202-225-5911 (office)
www.house.gov/sherman/about


President, Middle East Data Project, Inc.; Author, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran (2005)
Ken Timmerman
Tel: 301-946-2918 (office); E-mail: timmerman.road@verizon.net; www.KenTimmerman.com
In Israel:


Lecturer in the History of the Middle East, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Professor Ze'ev Maghen
Tel: 011-972-3-531-7812 (office); 011-972-52-383-4069 (cell); E-mail: maghenz@netvision.net.il;
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa


Chair of Modern Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
David Menashri
Tel: 011-972-3-640-8911 or 011-972-3-640-6161 (office); 011-972-8-940-1467 (home);
E-mail: menashri@post.tau.ac.il


Israeli Media Outlets


Hebrew language publication
Globes
127 Yigal Alon St.
Tel Aviv 67443
Tel.: 972-3-697-9797
English-language Web site: www.globes-online.com


Daily Hebrew language newspaper
Ha’aretz
21 Shocken St.
Tel Aviv 66532
Tel.: 972-3-512-1212
English-language Web site: www.haaretz.com


Daily Hebrew language newspaper
Ma’ariv
2 Karlebach St.
Tel Aviv 67132
Tel.: 972-3-563-2111


Daily English language newspaper
The Jerusalem Post
P.O. Box 81
Jerusalem 91000
Tel.: 972-2-531-5666
English-language Web site: www.jpost.com


The National Association of Israeli Journalists
Beit Sokolov
4 Kaplan St.
Tel Aviv 64734
Tel.: 972-3-695-1437


Daily Hebrew language newspaper
Yediot Aharonot
138 Petah Tikva Rd.
Tel Aviv 67446
Tel.: 972-3-697-2222
English-language Web site: www.ynetnews.com


Israeli Society


Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University (United States)
Office: 404-727-2798


Director, Independent Media Review & Analysis
Aaron Lerner (Israel)
Office: 972-9-760-4719
Cell: 972-54-231-6470
Email: imra@netvision.net.il


Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
David Makovsky (United States)
Office: 202-452-0650
Email: davidm@washingtoninstitute.org


Professor of Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Begin-Sadat Center
Gerald Steinberg (Israel)
Office direct: 972-3-531-8043
Cell: 972-54-890-445
Email: gerald@vms.huji.ac.il


Professor of History, James Madison College, Director, Jewish Studies
Kenneth Waltzer (United States)
Office: 517-432-3493
Email: waltzer@msu.edu


Mediterranean Union


Scientific Advisor to the Museum of Europe in Brussels; Professor of European Early Modern History at the University of Tel Aviv; Former Israeli Ambassador in Paris
Elie Barnavi
Phone: 972 6 417 177/640
E-mail: barnavi@post.tau.ac.il


Former Israeli Ambassador to the EU; Representative of the World Jewish Congress in Israel
Amb. Oded Eran
Phone: 972 54 24 88 600
odederan@hotmail.com


Deputy Director General of the Middle East and Peace Process Division in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yaakov Hadas
Phone: 972 2 530 3418
Mobil: 972 50 6203112
E-mail: Yacov.hadas@mfa.gov.il


French ambassador in charge of the Mediterranean cultural workshop
Jacques Huntzinger
Phone: 33 147 649 550
Jacques.huntzinger@diplomatie.gouv.fr


Jean Monnet Lecturer; Director for the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sharon Pardo, PhD
Phone : 972 54 300 7551
E-mail: pardos@bgu.ac.il


Israel’s Ambassador to France
H.E. Daniel Shek
Phone: 33-140-765-568
porteparole@paris.mfa.gov.il


Peace


U.S.-based experts


Executive Director
Art Abramson, Ph.D.
Baltimore Jewish Council
Tel: 410-542-4850
bjcart@msn.com


Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D.
Tel: 301-565-3918
mgbard@aol.com


Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC)
Ronald Halber
Tel: 301-770-0881
rhalber@jcouncil.org


Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
U.S. Ambassador Martin S. Indyk
Tel: 202-797-6492
mindyk@brookings.edu


Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
David Makovsky
Tel: 202-452-0650
dmakovsky@washingtoninstitute.org


Founder and President, The Israel Project Annapolis; Resident Active Member of Annapolis Jewish Community
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Tel: 202-857-6644
jenniferm@theisraelproject.org


Chief U.S. Correspondent, Haaretz
Shmuel Rosner
Tel: 301-801-5220
rshmuel@gmail.com


Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross
Tel: 202-452-0650
dross@washingtoninstitute.org


Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Peace
Robert Satloff, Ph.D.
Tel: 202-452-0650
rsatloff@washingtoninstitute.org


Press Counselor, Embassy of Israel
David Siegel
Tel: 202-364-5538
Web site: www.israelemb.org


Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; Director, Middle East Democracy and Development Project; The Brookings Institution, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; Assistant to Dr. Cofman Wittes
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Ph.D.
Andrew Masloski:
Tel: 202-797-6043
amasloski@brookings.edu


Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney
David Wurmser, Ph.D.
Tel: 202-746-2046
wurmserd@delphiglobalanalysis.com


Israel-based experts


Senior Foreign Press Coordinator, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (Jerusalem)
David Baker
Tel: 011-972-2-677-3649 (office); 011-972-50-620-5061 (cell)
Web site: www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng


Foreign Press & Public Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister
Israel Prime Minister’s Office
Miri Eisin
Tel: 011-972-50-620-5273
Miri.eisin@it.pmo.gov.il


Spokesperson
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jerusalem)
Mark Regev
Tel: 011-972-2-530-3111 (Main office)
Web site: www.mfa.gov.il/mfa


Pediatric Care


Spokesperson, Israel Ministry of Health
Shimon Einav
Tel.: 972-2-670-5056
E-mail: dover@moh.health.gov.il
Web site: www.health.gov.il/english


Director, JDC-Middle East Program
Randi Garber
E-mail: randig@jdc.org.il
Web sites: http://www.ashalim.org.il and http://brookdale.pionet.com/


Coordinator, Safe Kids Israel
Michael Klein
Tel.: 972-3-925-3213
Fax: 972-3-925-3261
E-mail: michalk@beterem.org
Web site: www.beterem.org (Hebrew) or http://www.beterem.org/template/default.asp?maincat=12 (English)


Spokeswoman, The National Center for Children's Safety and Health
Drora Navon
Tel.: 972-3-926-3106
E-mail: droran@beterem.org


Director, The Edmond & Lily Safra Children’s Hospital
Gideon Paret
Tel.: 972-3-530-2895
E-mail: Gidi.Paret@sheba.health.gov.il
Web site: http://eng.sheba.co.il/414/ (English


Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Deputy Director General and Director of Medicine & Healthcare Department, The Peres Center for Peace
Dr. Danny Shanit
Tel.: 972-3-568-0680
E-mail: info@peres-center.org
Web site: http://www.peres-center.org/SectionProject.asp?cc=01140201


President, ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection
Dr. Hanita Zimrin
Tel.: 972-3-609-1930
E-mail: Zimrin@eli.org.il
Web site: www.eliusa.org (English)


Protecting Women


Spokesman, Israel Ministry of Social Affairs
Nahum Eido
Tel: 972-2-675-7424
E-mail: nachumi@molsa.gov.il


President, Women’s International Zionist’s Organization (WIZO)
Helena Glazer
Tel.: 972-3-692-3716
E-mail: Helena@wizo.org


Director, Israel Trauma Coalition
Tali Lavanon
Tel.: 972-2-586-6385
E-mail: taly.levanon@itc-office.org.il


Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Director, Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center
Miriam Schler
Tel.: 972-3-516-7664, ext. 201
E-mail: Center_director@012.net.il


Director - International Department, NA'AMAT Israel
Shirli Shavit
Tel.: 972-3-692-1904
E-mail: Shirlisha@naamat.org.il


Spokeswoman, Israel Ministry of Health
Einav Shimon
Tel.: 972-2-670-5056
E-mail: dover@moh.health.gov.il
Web site: www.health.gov.il/english


The Israel Women’s Network
Tel.: 972-3-612-3990
E-mail: office@iwn.org.il


President, ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection
Dr. Hanita Zimrin
Tel.: 972-3-609-1930
E-mail: Zimrin@eli.org.il
Web site: www.eliusa.org


Religious Freedoms


Bar-Ilan University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Menachem Friedman
Tel.: 972-3-531-8624 (office)
E-mail: mfriedma@mail.biu.ac.il


Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Yedidia Stern
Tel.: 972-3-531-8414 (office direct)
E-mail: sternyz@mail.biu.ac.il


Tourism


Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality
Yossi Gottesman
Tel.: 972-2-629-7744
Email: dover@jerusalem.muni.il


Special Advisor for Religious Affairs, Jerusalem Municipality
Motti Levi
Tel.: 972-2-629-6666


Israeli Ministry of Tourism Spokesperson
Shira Kazeh
Tel.: 972-2-666-4203


Spokesman for the Civil Administration in the West Bank
Zidky Maman
Tel: 972-50-623-4081


Spokesman, International Christian Embassy
David Parsons
Tel.: 972-2-539-9700


Bridges for Peace media
Ron Ross
Tel.: 972-2-624-5004


Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality
Rafi Shamir
Tel.: 972-2-629-7744


Turkey


Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board Business Council Coordinators
Phone: (90) (212) 339 50 00
Email: info@deik.org.tr


The Israel-Turkey Business Council
Menashe Carmon (lead Israeli representative to the council)
Managing Director, Overseas Export Import Ltd.
Phone: +972-3683-6833


The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
Phone: (90) 312-413-8000
Email: info@tobb.org.tr
http://www.tobb.org.tr/eng/haber/haberarsiv.php


Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures (including the Energy sector)
http://www.mni.gov.il/mni/en-US/default.htm


Minister of National Infrastructures
Binyamin (Fouad) Ben Eliezer
Phone: +972-2-5006711


Media Advisor to the Minister
Ronen Moshe
Phone: +972-2-5006730
Email: ronenm@mni.gov.il


Director General of Natural Gas Authority
Yeoshua (Shuki) Stern
Phone: +972-2-5006843
Email: ystern@mni.gov.il
http://www.mni.gov.il/mni/en-US/Energy/NaturalGas/


Turko-Iranian Relations; Gender in Turkey; Turkish-U.S. Relations
Anat Lapidot-Firilla
The Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University
Phone: +972-2-5881988



Voting


Israel Ministry of Interior, Spokesperson
Sabin Hadad
Tel.: 972-2-670-1415
E-mail: dover@moin.gov.il


Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Water


The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences
Prof. Uri Shani
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
P.O. Box 12
Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone: 972 8 948 936
Fax: 972 8 947 5181
E-mail: shuri@agri.huji.ac.il, shuri@water.gov.il


Chairman, Israeli Association of Water Resources
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Haim Gvirtzman
Phone: 972 2 658 4912
E-mail: haimg@vms.huji.ac.il


CEO of Mekorot Water Company – Israel National Water Co.
Ronen Wolfman
Mekorot Water Company – Israel National Water Co.
9 Linkoln St., 67134
P.O. Box: 20128
Tel Aviv 61201, Israel
Phone: 972 3 623 0555/0411
Fax: 972 3 623 0833
www.mekorot.co.il


President of Israeli Water Association
Environmental Science Division, Graduate School of Applied Science
Prof. Avner Adin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Phone: 972 2 658 5550
Fax: 972 2 563 5266
E-mail: adin@vms.huji.ac.il
http://sites.huji.ac.il/applsci/es/adin/
www.israelwater.org.il


Former Water Commissioner
Shimon Tal
14 Hamasger St.
Tel Aviv 61203, Israel
Phone: 972 3 636 9600
Fax: 972 3 636 9750
E-mail: ShimonT10@water.gov.il


Director of Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Prof. Eilon Adar
Phone: 972 8 659 6797 or 972 8 659 6714
Fax: 972 8 659 6889
E-mail: eilon@bgu.ac.il


Women’s Rights


President of International Council of Jewish Women
Leah Aharonov
Tel: 972-52-423-9507


Spokeswoman, Isha L’Isha (Literal translation: Woman to Woman; the most veteran, grassroots feminist organization in Israel and the country’s leading voice for women’s rights.)
Yahel Ash Kurlander
Tel: 972-4-865-0977
E-mail: yahelmedia@gmail.com


Spokeswoman, Economic Empowerment for Women (Reduces poverty and bridges social and economic disparities among women in Israel)
Ilany Ayelet
Tel.: 972- 4- 852-0027
E-mail: eew@womensown.org.il


Spokeswoman, KAYAN (Advances the status of Arab-Israeli women by catalyzing independent thought and action, and changing the way women are viewed and treated in Arab and Jewish society in Israel)
Rula Deeb
Tel: 972-4-864-1291 or 972-4-866-1890
E-mail: kayan@netvision.net.il


Spokesman, Israel Ministry of Social Affairs
Nahum Eido
Tel: 972-2-675-7424
E-mail: nachumi@molsa.gov.il


Director, Association of Bedouin Women to Promote Education
Rula Elatuna
E-mail: info@Bedouinwomen.org.il


Chairwoman, Committee on Women’s Status of the Israel Lawyers Association; director, Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel; visiting professor, College of Management Academic Studies University College London; visiting professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; emerita chair, Israeli Association for Freedom of Science, Religion and Culture
Frances Raday (PhD)
E-mail: radayf@netvision.net.il


Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office
Mark Regev
Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555
Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354
Fax: 972-2-670-5602


Spokeswoman, Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel
Einat Rubin
E-mail: einat@igud1202.org.il


Organization - Improves and advances the status of working women at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder
Sister for Women in Israel
Tel: 972-3-687-0545
E-mail: achoti@zahav.net.il


Co-founder and president, Strauss-Elite Group
Raya Strauss Bendror
E-mail: straussr@netvision.net.il


Organization - Fights the widening gaps in Israeli society, particularly what they refer to as the “growing violation of women's rights.”
Women Lawyers for Social Justice
Tel: 972-3-516-3936
E-mail: mail@itach.org.il


Area Contacts for Cities and Communities Hit by Hezbollah Missiles


Afula


Mayor Avi Alakbetz
Tel.: 04-652-0355


Deputy Mayor Menahem Yavor
Tel.: 04-652-0321/2


HaEmek Hospital Spokeswoman Merav Moyal
Tel.: 04-649-4023; Cell: 057-722-6069


Akko


Municipality:
Tel.: 04-995-6000


Mayor Shimon Lankri
Call spokeswoman Merav Tzuker:
Cell: 052-386-3890


Director of the Akko Festival
Albert Benshlosh
(English-and French-speaking resident)
Tel: 052-371-8926


Restaurant owner
Uri Buri (speaks English)
Tel.: 050-457-0719


Hadera


Mayor Chaim Avitan
Tel.: 04-630-3311


Spokeswoman Meira Goronova
Tel.: 04-630-3313


Haifa


Municipality
Tel.: 04-835-6865


Spokesperson Tzachi Tarno
Tel.: 04-835-6754
Cell: 057-754-8500


Police Chief Commander David Ben Atir
contact through spokesperson:
Moshe Weitzmann
Tel.: 050-627-3227


Rambam Hospital Spokesperson David Ratner
Tel.: 04-854-2718


English-speaking
Yossi Zur
(lost his teenage son in a suicide attack in 2003)
Cell.: 054-424-8912


General Manager of Haifa Tourist Board
Moshe Tzur-Zurich
Tel.: 04-853-5606
Cell: 054- 853-5606


English-speaking
Yossi Mendellevich
(lost his 13 years old son in suicide attack in 2003)
Tel.: 04-834-1672


German-and English-speaking resident
Ron Kehrmann
(lost his teen-age daughter in a suicide attack in 2003)
Cell: 054-491-1822


English-speaking resident
Alex Gan
Cell: 052-878-9999


Russian-speaking Haifa City Council member
Yulia Straim
Cell: 050-729-8897


Spanish-speaking resident, originally from Buenos Aires
Mario Wainstein
Tel.: 054-462-1179


French-and Bulgarian-speaking resident
Mathy Cohen
Cell: 054-648-0250


Russian-and Bulgarian-speaking resident
Izzi Cohen
Cell: 054-648-0240


English-speaking residents from the United States
Carol and Paul Goldgeiger
Tel.: 04-833-8020


English-speaking resident
Yossi Gluzman
Cell: 050-728-3356
Email: gluzman@netvision.net.il


Karmel


Municipality:
Tel.: 04-908-5502/3/4/5


Spokesperson
Leviah Shalev Fischer (English speaker)
Tel:. 04-908-5561


Russian speaker
Rina Greenberg
Tel.: 04-908-5511


Spanish, French and English speaker
Hanna Koval (General Director of municipality)
Cell: 054-662-6806 Tel: 04-908-5531


Kfar Giladi


Main Office:
Tel.: 04-694-6555

Information Center:
Tel.: 04-694-6377


Kfar Verdim


English-speaking resident
Elaine Levitt
Cell: 052-851-2313


Kiryat Shmona


Municipality:
Tel.: 04-694-2610
Tel.: 04-690-8406


Spokesperson
Doron Shnaper
Tel.: 050-867 5052


International Relations Officer
Susan Shosh Peretz (speaks English, German and Greek)
Tel: 052-666-3686


French speaking resident
Meir Marciano
Tel.: 050-869-7660


Ma’a lot-Tarshiha


Municipality
Tel.: 04-957-8800


Spokesman
Isfahan Baalul
Tel.: 050-562-6584


Mayor
Shlomo Buchbut
Tel.: 04-957-8800


Metula

Municipality:
Tel.: 04-694-1364

Spokesman (Head of Municipality)
Yaakov Katz
CelL: 050-530-0552; 057-775-7766


Nahariya


Municipality
Tel.: 04-987-9811


Spokesperson
Gadi Ness
Tel.: 052-226-9500


Western Galilee Nahariya Hospital, Director of the hospital
Dr. Moshe Daniel
Tel.: 04-910-7770
Hospital Web site: http://www.wgh.org.il/site/homepage.asp?lang=ENπ=32


English-speaking resident
Galia Mori
Tel.: 052-282-8195


Spanish-speaking resident
President of the Association of Immigrants from Latin America, Spain and Portugal in Israel
Alicia Hecht
Tel.: 04-900-0613; Cell: 050-857-9066


Russian-speaking resident
Semyon Goretsky
Tel.: 04-951-3637


French-speaking residents
Benoid and Chantale Dourieze
Cell: 052-520-1335 or Cell: 052-482-9676


Nazareth


Municipality:
04-645-9201


Spokesman
Safuan Fahoum
Tel.: 054-541-9201


Peki’in


Tourist Center
Tel.: 04-997-8650


Rosh Pina


English-speaking resident
Kenny Elias
Cell: 050-893-9042


French-speaking resident
Jacky Buchvut
Tel.: 04-693-6617


English-speaking resident and tour guide
Richard Woolf
Cell: 050-589-4647


Southern Golan


English- speaking residents, originally from Chicago
Mark and Tamar Kaplan
Tel: 04-676-2460
Tamar cell: 052-831-9941
Mark cell: 052-831-9938


Tiberias


Head of municipality
Zohar Oved
Tel.: 04-673-9513; 04-673-9546


Spokesperson
Shani Yisraeli
Cell: 057-351-2017


English-speaking resident
Hadar Rosenthal
Cell: 052-390-7764


Tzfat


Information Center (Dept. of Public Relations):
Tel.: 04-692-7400


English speaking resident
Laurie Rappaport:
Tel.: 04-697-3604; Cell: 050-893-9092


English speaking resident
Miriam Botzer
Tel.: 04-692-2667


Upper Galilee


Community Director for Upper Galilee Regional Council
Ya'ara Kadosh
Cell: 050-522-6312



Sderot and Area Contact

The Israel Project


Director, The Israel Project’s Jerusalem Office
Marcus Sheff
Tel: 02-623-6427
Cell: 054-807-9177
marcuss@theisraelproject.org


Senior Advisor for Research & Communications, Jerusalem Office
Leah Soibel
Tel: 0-2-623-6427
Cell: 054-807-9041
leahs@theisraelproject.org


Medical Professionals


Spokesperson for Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem
Yael Bosem-Levi
Tel: 972-50-404-8666


Magen David Adom (MDA) International Relations Division
(for the latest updates on number of injured and casualties)
Jacqueline Brown
jacquelineb@mdais.co.il


Deputy Director of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon
Dr. Emeil Chai
Tel: 08-674-5600


Spokesperson for Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva
Inbar Guter
Cell: 050-626-3063


Spokesperson for Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon
Barzilai Hospital currently treating Palestinians injured in Gaza and Qassam rocket attack victim
Leah Malul
Tel: 08-674-5766
Cell: 057-767-8766


Spokesperson for Shaarey Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem
Shoham Rubio
Cell: 972-50-740-0661


MDA Director and Spokesman for the Negev (southern) region
Yehuda Shushan
Cell: 052-246-2771


Spokesman for Magen David Adom
Yerucham Mandola
Cell: 052-256-9955
dover@mdais.co.il


Magen David Adom
Yoni (E) Yagodovsky
Tel: 052-890-2888


Head Nurse of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon
Shosh
Tel: 057-767-8800


International Emergency Medical Services


Jerusalem Representative, International Committee of the Red Cross
Bernard Barret
Tel: 02-582-8845
Cell: 052-526-0191


Jerusalem Representative, International Committee of the Red Cross
Bana Sayeh
Tel: 02-582-8845
Cell: 052-601-9142


Southern Area Contacts


Ashkelon


Deputy Mayor of Ashkelon
Marius Levy
Cell: 054-9908382


Assistant to Ashkelon Municipality Spokesperson (Russian-speaking)
Gregory Mezin
Cell: 050-899-8698


Spokesperson for Ashkelon Municipality
Anat Weinstein-Berkowitz
Tel: 08-679-2385
Cell: 050-899-8385


Eshkol


Mayor of Eshkol region
Chaim Yalin (Spanish-speaker)
Tel.: 972-8-992-9102
Cell: 972-54-791-7222


Netivot


Mayor for the City of Netivot
Yechiel Zohar
Tel: 08-993-8701; 08-993-8701;
08-993-8700


Spokesperson for the City of Netivot
Benny Cohen
Tel: 08-993-8766
Cell: 054-667-7266


Head of Security for the City of Netivot
Erez Kidhar (Languages: English and Spanish)
Cell: 054-667-7861


Sderot


Municipal Spokesperson
Shalom
Tel: 057 899 4586
Tel: 08-662-0200; 689-3156


Sderot City Council (Russian-speaking)
Elena Biryukova
Tel: 08-662-0208
Cell: 054-694-4149


Assistant to Sderot Spokesman
Shalm Halevi
Tel: 08-662-0206
Cell: 057-899-4586


Spokesman for the city of Sderot
Yossi Chohen
Cell: 057-738-3770


Police Chief
Yossi Martziano
Tel: 08-662-0444
Fax: 08-662-0410
Cell: 050-545-9427


Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council


Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
Alon Schuster
Cell: 054-675-5111


General Manager of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
Eliahu Segel
Tel: 08-689-7223
Cell: 054-675-5112


Assistant to Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
Michal Shaban
Cell: 054-675-5115


Press liaison for Alon Schuster, Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
Naftull Sivan
Cell: 054-675-5113


Community Leaders and Social Service Organizations


Trauma expert - works for NATAL (The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War)
Local resident, speaks English, Spanish and basic Arabic
Yehudit Be Hay
Tel:052 521 7855
judithbk@netvision.net.il


Community organization dedicated to several different projects in Sderot
Gvanim
Cell: 054-668-9902 (ask for Hen)


Head of social work services in Sderot
Aron Poulet
Tel: 08-662-0273


Head Psychologist
Tima Sagie
Tel: 08-662-4000


Head of Sderot's Education Department
Miriam Sasi
Tel: 08-662-4000


A community project for Russian-speaking residents of Sderot
“Sela”
Contact Natasha,
Cell: 050-795-5051


Russian speaking-resident and head of a social project in Sderot
Raneta Shulomov
Cell: 054-668-9014


Heads a project that deals with community protection services
Dalia Yosef
Cell: 054-471-3268


Other Workers in the Area


Restaurant owner
Chaim Cohen
Tel: 08-689-2450
Cell: 054-637-7790


UIAC Youth project Coordinator (Eng/Spanish)
Eddy
Tel: 054-764-3246


Police Spokeswoman Merhav Kachish
Karen
Tel: 050-764-3167


Homefront Commander
Ofer Shushan
Tel: 057-815-2196
Erik (Spokesperson)
Tel: 057-815-4399


Kiosk owner
Sasson
Tel: 08-689-7018


Hairdresser
Shopan
Tel: 08-689-7204, 08-689-4366


Sapir College
Simon Tamir
Tel: 08-680-2778
Cell: 054-675-5245


Stills photographer
Yossi
Tel: 052 523 0325


Residents


Arabic Speaker
Ofra Dahari
Tel: 054-813-5082


Sderot resident
Iris
Tel: 050-326-0621


Mother of Yael Shushan, child injured by Qassam
Mari Ochana
Tel: 08-689-9034


Husband was evacuated to the hospital due to Qassam
Meir & Yehudit Dahan
Tel: 08-689-9074
Cell: 050-882-2973


English-Speaking


Ashkelon resident, teacher
Ruth Yashin
Tel: 052-4802574


Pilipino resident of Sderot home hit by Qassam on May 16, 2007, while at home with children
Shareel Ben-David
Cell: 054-628-6006


Sderot resident
Odelia Ben-Porat
Tel: 08-689-0787
Cell: 050-672-8204


Sderot resident
Batya Edry
Cell: 054-5444-1375


Sderot resident
Eliyahu Edry
Cell: 054-5444-1376


12-year-old Sderot resident (Has parent's consent)
Shoshana Edry
Tel: 08-689-2112


Sderot resident
Mechi Fendel
Cell: 050-741-1670


Sderot resident
Noama Hassiboss
Cell: 050-288-9983


Sderot resident
Jenny Ion
Cell: 052-396-2512


12-year-old Sderot resident (Has parent's consent)
Yael Kfir
Tel: 077-331-2875


Sderot resident
Dabid Landau
Cell: 052-604-6931


Kibbutz Ben-Ami resident (located near northern Gaza border)
Ofer Liberman
Cell: 050-566-6700


Sderot resident taking refuge from rocket attacks in Jerusalem
Hannah Malool
Cell: 050-631-6950


Sderot resident
David Mamo
Tel: 08-661-0481
Cell 050-590-0862


Sderot resident
Adina Mestelbaum
Tel: 077-932-2221
Cell: 050-412-4467


Sderot resident
Atara Orbach
Tel: 08-661-2869
Cell: 052-311-5496


Grandmother and Sderot resident, originally from Canada
Cherna Rosenberg
Cell: 054-220-0606; 077-345-8009
chernaida@hotmail.com


Sderot resident
Avraham Sheetrit
Tel: 050-791-6701


Sderot resident
Yakov Sheetrit
Tel: 08-661-1259


Sderot resident
Yael Shushan
Tel: 050-396-7380
moriny@actcom.net.il


Sderot resident
David Spengelt
Tel: 08-661-2960;
Cell: 054-205-1984


Sderot resident
Reshes Steret
Cell: 050-623-6439


Sderot resident
Mor Yehudai
Cell: 052-620-9029


Russian-Speaking


Historian and journalist
Alexander Rieman
Cell: 050-562-5571
rieman1@012.net.il


Assistant to Ashkelon Municipality Spokesperson
Gregory Mezin
Cell: 050-899-8698


Sderot resident
Nicol Alchazon
Cell: 052-667-0252


Sderot resident
Malcha Alchazov
Cell: 054-810-0263


Sderot City Council
Elena Biryukova
Tel: 08-662-0208
Cell: 054-694-4149


French-Speaking


Sderot resident
Dina
Tel: 054-767-3409


Sderot resident, since 1955
Sister's house was hit by a Qassam rocket on May 16, 2007
Lea Broch
Cell: 054-595-5593


Sderot resident
Leah Levy
Cell: 052-311-5816


Sderot resident
Yael Ben-Yaeir
Tel: 08-661-2173
Cell: 052-311-4309


Sderot resident
Sherry Kalimi
Tel: 08-661-2821
Cell: 052-476-1972


Residents From Otef Aza


Nir Am


English and Spanish Speakers
Ein Hashlosha and Rami Negbi
Tel: 052-325- 0031


Residents
Residents Rachti and Ofer Shlomi Saad
Rachti - Tel: 08-680-0405
Ofer Shlomi - Cell: 052-393-4582


Nir Oz


Resident
Oded Lifshitz
Tel: 054-791-6934


Resident
Shlomo Margalit
Tel: 054-791-6600


Nirlat Factory Spokesman
Avi Shubert
Tel.: 08-998-6333
Cell: 052-466-4664


Works at guesthouse
Tal
Tel: 054-791-6915


Nir Oz Security Representative
Cell: 054-791-6800


Nir Oz Secretariat
Tel.: 08- 998-3611


Alumim


Alumim Guesthouse
Tel: 054-779-2805


Security Sdot Negev (Border Police)
Rafi Babian
Tel: 050-558-4909


Resident
Sarah Jane
Tel: 054-779-2769


Resident
Stanley Kaye
Tel: 08-993-7059


Meir


Be’eri
Tel: 054-791-8079


Spokespeople


Spokesperson for Machoz Darom (IEC)
Ilan User


IDF Erez Spokesperson
Shadi


Principals and Teachers


Principal of school in Sderot
Eli Edri
Cell: 052-607-0751


Resident of Sderot, mother of three, special education teacher and therapist
Sari Kalimi
Tel.: 08-661-2821


Resident of Sderot, mother of three, and special education teacher
Adina Mastbaum
Tel: 08-932-2221
Cell: 050-753-3363


Principal of school in Sderot
Amit Orbach
Cell: 054-443-6633


Mother of six and teacher in Sderot
Atara Orbach
Tel.: 08-661-2869
Cell: 054-443-5588


Principal of a school in Sderot
Matin Ovadia
Cell: 052-607-0712


Head of a Sderot kindergarten
Shusha Sido
Cell: 050-683-1310


Parents of three and teachers at a local school in Sderot
Spanglet, Mutti, and Rivka
Tel.: 08-684-9964
Cell: 050-865-2991


Schools in Sderot


Gill
Neve Eshkol
08- 689-7079


HaRoca
Mivtza Sinai St.
08- 689-7285


Maoz
Yoseftal
08- 689-7021


Religious School for Science
4 HaDekel st.
08- 661-1133


School for Science
906 kk”l st.
08-689-4317


Shikmim (religious)
10 Cicar Ha Nasi st. Sderot
08- 689-7043


Yesodi HaTora (religious)
120 Moshe Rabeno st.
08- 689-1596


Offices – Border Crossings


Border Crossings


Allenby Bridge
Tel.: 02- 994-3244/375
Fax: 02-994-3394


Sheik Hussenin
Tel: 04-609-3410


District Coordination Offices


Abu Dis
Tel.: 02-5354548
Fax: 02-5353936


Bet El
Tel.: 02-997-7744/323 (Int’l Org.)


Bethlehem
Tel.: 02-993-4001
Tel/ Fax: 02-993-4027


Gaza/Erez
Public Inquiries:
Tel.: 08-674-1480
Fax: 08-674-1601


International Organizations:
Tel.: 08-674-1544/406


VIP Office:
Tel.: 08-674-1556/ 557
Fax: 08-674-1601


Hebron
Tel.: 02-996-4351
Fax: 02-996-2254


Jenin
Tel.: 04-640-7305/12
Fax: 04-640-7315


Jericho
Tel.: 02-994-3893
Fax: 02-994-3305


Jerusalem Outskirts (J’lem Fence)
Tel.: 02-970-5006
Fax: 02-970-5004


Nablus
Tel.: 02-548-6217/8
Fax: 02-548-6218


Qalqilya
Tel.: 09-792-2005
Fax: 09-792-2331


Ramallah
Tel.: 02-997-0611
Fax: 02-997-4693


Tulkarem
Tel.: 04-658-2882/4/6
Fax: 09-658-2883


Israel Officials in Israel


Senior Foreign Press Coordinator, Israeli Prime Minister's Office (Jerusalem)
David Baker
Tel: 02-677-3649
Cell: 050-620-5061
david.baker@it.pmo.gov.il;
www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng


Press Counselor, Embassy of Israel (Washington D.C)
David Siegel
Tel. (US number): 202-364-5538
www.israelemb.org