The Israel Project

Israel-based

Uzi Arad
Affiliation: Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Chairman of Atlantic Forum of Israel; advisor to the Knesset on Foreign Affairs and Defense; former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu; former director of intelligence division at the Mossad
Fields: American and European-Israeli relations; intelligence and national security; Arab-Israeli conflict; arms control and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Tel.: 972-2-666-7402; 972-52-333-1626 (cell); 972-3-642-1892 (home)
E-mail: gamzu@netvision.net.il; lironc@nsc.gov.il

Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Fields: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic fundamentalism; Iran
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754 ext. 2746
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

Rebeeca Bardach
Affiliation: Director, JDC-Middle East Program; Director, JDC - Center for International Migration and Integration
Tel.: 972-2-655-7516; 972-50-955-7108 (cell)
E-mail: rebeccab@jdc.org.il
Web site: www.jdc.org.il; www.cimi.org.il  

Eitan Barak
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: Arms control and disarmament; international security regimes and peacekeeping operations in the Middle East; the law of arms control and the law of weaponry
Tel.: 972-2-588-3156
E-mail: eitanbarak@mscc.huji.ac.il 

David Bukay
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, University of Haifa
Fields: Political Islam and terrorism; the Palestinian question and inter-Arab relations; al-Qaeda and world Jihad; Arab-Islamic political culture; international terrorism; the foreign policy of Syria towards Lebanon and Israel; the state of the Middle East and Middle East state
Tel.: 972-4-824-0484; 972-4-824-7795; 972-50-924-7795 (cell)
E-mail: bukay@poli.haifa.ac.il 

Joseph Ginat
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa
Fields: Regional political affairs; concepts of honor in Arab political culture
Tel.: 972-4-824-6723
E-mail: ginatj@research.haifa.ac.il 

Mark Heller
Affiliation: Principal Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; the U.S. and the peace process; U.S. Middle East policy
Tel.: 972-3-640-0407; 972-54-480-0725 (cell) 
E-mail: jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il

Mordechai Kedar
Affiliation: Lecturer in Arabic, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Arab political discourse; Arab mass media; Syrian domestic policy; Islamic groups; Israeli-Arabs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9162 (home); 972-3-531-7569 (office); 972-54-477-8908 (cell)
E-mail: mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il

Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), IDC in Herzliya
Fields:  International relations; international politics; the UN; terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; African politics
Contact through ICT spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il; kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il 

Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator, Project on Terrorism, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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.: 972-3-640-0409
E-mail: anatk@inss.org.il

David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
Tel.: 972-8-940-1467 (home); 972-3-640-6440 (office); 972-54-661-5171 (cell)
E-mail: menashri@post.tau.ac.il 

Dr. Amikam Nachmani
Affiliation: Political Science Department, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Politics of water in the Middle East; strategic affairs in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus
Tel.: 972-3-531-8158; 972-2-566-4391 (home)
E-mail:nachma@mail.biu.ac.il 

Joseph Nevo
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa
Fields: Regional affairs; political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Palestinian-Arab society
Tel.: 972-4-983-4672
E-mail: jnevo@research.haifa.ac.il 

Dr. Eldad Pardo
Affiliation: Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Fields: Iranian foreign relations; Iranian politics
Tel.: 972-54-622-8895 (cell) 

Eli Podeh
Affiliation: Head of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department, Hebrew University
Fields: Modern history of the Arab Middle East; Inter-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli relations; Egypt
Tel.: 972-2-588-3673; 972-9-743-1747; 972-54-447-9728 (cell)
E-mail: podeh@h2.hum.huji.ac.il

Avi Primor
Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies, IDC Herzliya; former Israeli ambassador to Germany
Fields: Israel’s decision-making processes; defense and security; civil-military relations; nuclear and arms control policy; relations with Europe and NATO; Iran’s nuclear weapons development; non-conventional terrorism
Tel.: 972-9-960-2739; 972-9-960-2740;  972-54-429-4750 (cell)
E-mail: zprimor@hotmail.com; cschael@idc.ac.il

Uzi Rabi
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Middle Eastern affairs; Arab-Israeli relations; political and socioeconomic development of states in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Tel.: 972-3-640-6667/8 (office); 972-9-958-9294
E-mail: urabi@post.tau.ac.il

Nissim Rejwan
Affiliation: Israeli scholar born in Iraq
Fields: Israel’s place in the contemporary Middle East; Islam and the West; status of minorities in Middle Eastern cultures
Tel.: 972-2-581-7596 (home); 972-2-588-1960 (office)
E-mail: msdon@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Barry Rubin
Affiliation: Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Arab-Israeli conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian movement; inter-Arab affairs; Israel's international relations; Israeli foreign and security policy
Tel.: 972-9-970-2726 (office); 972-3-528-7298
E-mail: profbarryrubin@yahoo.com

Alisa Rubin-Peled
Affiliation: Academic Director, Argov Fellows Program in Diplomacy, IDC Herzliya
Fields: 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.: 972-9-960-2767 or contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

Shmuel Sandler
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate, Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; faculty member, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: International politics and comparative government; Israeli politics and foreign policy; ethno-national politics and foreign policy
Tel.: 972-3-531-8959; 972-54-467-4597 (cell)
E-mail: sandls@mail.biu.ac.il 

Amnon Sella
Affiliation: Head of Diplomacy and Strategy Studies Division, IDC Herzliya
Fields: International politics; Israel’s foreign policy; war, peace and strategic aspects of international relations
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il

Yitzhak Shichor
Affiliation: Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science, University of Haifa; Senior Fellow, Harry S Truman Research Institute, Hebrew University
Fields: China’s military modernization and defense conversion; Middle East policy in East Asia; East Asian democratization
Tel.: 972-4-828-8524; 972-2-588-2310
E-mail: msshic@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Dan Shiftan
Affiliation: Head of National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa
Fields: Contemporary Middle East; Arab-Israeli relations
Tel.: 972-4-824-0504; 972-52-617-8230 (cell)
E-mail: chotam@netvision.net.il 

Emmanuel Sivan
Affiliation: Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Political leadership in the Middle East; Islam in historical perspective
Tel.: 972-2-643-1996 (home); 972-2-563-3356 (office)
E-mail: emmanuelsivan@gmail.com; esivan@vmf.huji.ac.il

Gerald Steinberg, Prof.
Affiliation: Political Studies Department Chair and Founder of Conflict Management and Negotiation Program, Bar Ilan University; President and Founder, NGO Monitor
Fields: International relations; arms control; Iranian nuclear program; NPT regime; “soft power” in the Middle East; the politics of human rights and non-government organizations
Tel.: 972-2-566-1020
E-mail: steinberg@ngo-monitor.org; steing@mail.biu.ac.il
Web sites: www.ngo-monitor.org, http://facultry.biu.ac.il/~steing/index.shtml

Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; inter-Arab affairs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9892 (home); 972-3-640-6448 (office); 972-54-431-2980 (cell)
E-mail: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il 

Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University; Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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.: 972-3-640-9100 (office); 972-54-488-4171 (cell)
E-mail: zisser@post.tau.ac.il

Yoram Meital
Affiliation: Chairman, Herzog Center for Middle East Studies
Fields:  Middle East politics; Israel-Egypt relations; Israel-Palestinian conflict
Tel.: 972-8-647-2539; 972-52-879-5831 (cell)
E-mail: ymeital@bgu.ac.il 

David Newman
Affiliation: Professor of Political Geography in the Dept. of Politics & Government, Ben-Gurion University; Editor, Geopolitics journal (quarterly peer reviewed journal, Routledge); from 2010 - Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurioun University.
Fields: Borders and territory in a Globalized world; ethno-territorial conflict; Israel-Palestinian conflict; geopolitics of the Middle East; The Politics of Science and Academic Research
Tel.: 972-8-647-7595; 972-8-646-1116; 972-52-683-9372 (cell)
E-mail: newman@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

International law

Ariel Bendor
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
Fields: Legal aspects of the current Israeli geopolitical situation
Tel.: 972-3-573-3708 (home); 972-54-276-6600 (cell)
E-mail: abendor@research.haifa.ac.il 

Eyal Benvenisti
Affiliation: Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Fields: International law; international legal aspects of Arab-Israeli conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-3-640-6426
E-mail: ebenve@post.tau.ac.il

Yehuda Blum
Affiliation: Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law, Hebrew University
Fields: Legal status of Jerusalem; the refugee question; Palestinian self-determination; Israeli self-defense; settlements
Tel.: 972-2-588-2562 (office)
E-mail: msblumy@mscc.huji.ac.il

Yoram Dinstein
Affiliation: Professor, International Law, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Fields: International law and human rights; legal issues affecting human rights; relationship between democracy and national security
Tel.: 972-3-640-8678
E-mail: ydinstein@yahoo.com 

Guy Harpaz
Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Law and International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: Public international law; private international law; EU law; international trade; dispute resolution; regional economic integration; peace promotion; privatization
Tel.: 972-2-588-2561 (office); 972-50-684-8575 (cell)
E-mail: gharpaz@mscc.huji.ac.il

Moshe Hirsch
Affiliation: Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: 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
Tel.: 972-2-588-1177 (office); 972-2-643-5302 (home)
E-mail: msmosheh@mscc.huji.ac.il

Justus Reid Weiner
Affiliation: Scholar-in-Residence, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; adjunct lecturer, Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University
Fields: International legal issues affecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; human rights; status of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East
Tel.: 972-3-6407381
E-mail: justusdoc@yahoo.com; jusstus@netvision.net.il

Israeli-Arab issues

Israel-based

Majid Al-Haj
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa; Dean of Research and Head of Center of Multiculturalism and Educational Research, University of Haifa
Fields: Status and political attitudes of Israeli Arabs; minority rights in multicultural societies; Jewish and Arab popular attitudes in Israel
Tel.: 972-4-824-0622 (office)
E-mail: m.alhaj@soc.haifa.ac 

Clinton Bailey
Affiliation: Former Advisor for Shiite Affairs, Israeli Ministry of Defense
Fields: Bedouin culture; status of Bedouins in Israel
Tel.: 972-2-566-4860
E-mail: Clinton.bailey@mail.trincoll.edu

Mordechai Kedar
Affiliation: Lecturer in Arabic, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Arab political discourse; Arab mass media; Syrian domestic policy; Islamic groups; Israeli-Arabs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9162 (home); 972-3-531-7569 (office); 972-54-477-8908 (cell)
E-mail: mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il

Avraham Sela
Affiliation: A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: Inter-Arab affairs; political Islam; changing conceptions of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Hamas
Tel.: 972-2-588-2322 (office); 972-2-654-1193 (home)
E-mail: msavse@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Arnon Soffer
Affiliation: Chaikin Chair of Geostrategy, University of Haifa; Head of the Research Center in the National Defence Collge - Israel Defense Force
Fields: Geography of the Middle East, water and hydopolitics mainly in the Middle East, demography, urban warfare and military geography
Tel.: 972-4-824-0146; 972-52-866-6434 (cell)
E-mail: soffer@geo.haifa.ac.il 

U.S.-based

Mitchell Bard, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Fields: Israeli society, history and politics; U.S.-Israel relations
Tel.: 301-565-3918
E-mail: mgbard@aol.com
Web Site: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

Maura Milles
Affiliation: Director, American Friends of Hand in Hand
Fields: Bilingual and multicultural education in Israel
Tel.: 212-864-1804
E-mail: maura@handinhandk12.org
Web site: www.handinhandk12.org

Amb. Reda Mansour
Affiliation: Consul General of Israel to the Southeast United States
Fields: Arab life in Israeli society; U.S.-Israel relations
Tel.: 404-487-6582
E-mail: consul.sec@atlanta.mfa.gov.il
Web site: http://atlanta.mfa.gov.il

David Schenker
Affiliation: Aufzien Fellow and Director, Program on Arab Politics, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Fields: Palestinians; Jordan; Syria; Lebanon; Arab and Islamic politics; Egypt (fluent in Arabic)
Tel.: 202-452-0650, ext. 344
E-mail: dschenker@washingtoninstitute.org
Web site: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=42

Palestinians

Israel-based

Naomi Babbin
Affiliation: Managing Director, Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE)
Fields: Palestinian incitement; Middle Eastern school textbooks
E-mail: cmip@netvision.net.il 

Dr. Gil Feiler
Affiliation: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S.-Israel economic relations; Arab markets and economies; Palestinian political and economic development
Tel.: 972-3-644-8977; 972-54-463-0515 (cell)
E-mail: gil@infoprod.co.il  

Shmuel Bar
Affiliation: Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya)
Fields: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic fundamentalism; Iran
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754 ext. 2746
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il

Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; inter-Arab affairs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9892 (home); 972-3-640-6448 (office); 972-54-431-2980 (cell)
E-mail: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il

Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya
Fields: Middle East affairs; Israel-Palestinian affairs; international relations
Tel.: 972-52-878-3591 (cell)
E-mail: jspyer@idc.ac.il 

Pinhas Inbari
Affiliation: Researcher, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA); veteran journalist covering Palestinian affairs for several foreign media outlets
Fields: Contemporary Arab affairs; relationship between Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah; security dilemma of Gaza; Palestinian nationalism
Contact via Adam Shay, JCPA Project Coordinator
Tel.: 972-2-561-9112 

Daniel Diker
Affiliation: Director of Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA); serves as Knesset affairs correspondent for Israel Broadcasting Authority’s English news
Fields: Contemporary Middle Eastern affairs; internal Palestinian conflict in Gaza; freedom of the press in Palestinian territories
Contact via Adam Shay, JCPA Project Coordinator
Tel.: 972-2-561-9281; 972-2-563-2947  

Hillel Frisch
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Research Fellow, BESA Center, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Evolution/internal politics of the Palestinian national movement; Palestinian nationalism; Israeli Arabs; Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-3-531-7936 (office); 972-2-535-3593 (home); 972-54-548-5909 (cell)
E-mail: hillel.frisch@gmail.com 

Amal Jamal
Affiliation: Head of the graduate program on Political Communication and head of the Walter Lebach Institute at Tel Aviv University
Fields: Political Theory and Communication; Nationalism, Ethnicity; Civil Society; Israeli Politics; Palestinian Politics; Minority Plitics and Indigenour Peoples
Tel.: 972-3-640-7457; 972-50-647-3693 (cell)
E-mail: ajamal@post.tau.ac.il 

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary Arab world; Islamism; inter-Arab relations
Tel.: 972-3-604-6447 (office); 972-9-774-9057 (home); 972-52-295-5693 (cell)
E-mail: bmaddy@post.tau.ac.il 

Itamar Marcus
Affiliation: Director, Palestinian Media Watch
Fields: Palestinian media; Palestinian Authority; Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian school textbooks
Tel.: 972-2-625-4140 (office); 972-50-528-4907 (cell)
E-mail: itamar@pmw.org.il

Khalil Shikaki
Affiliation: Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)
Fields: Palestinian state-building; Israeli-Palestinian peace process; Palestinian public opinion research
Tel.: 972-2-296-4933 (office); 972-5-947-4310 (cell)
E-mail: kshikaki@pcpsr.org 

Khaled Abu Toameh
Affiliation: Journalist, The Jerusalem Post and the U.S. News and World Report
Fields: West Bank and Gaza Strip politics; Palestinian press
Tel.: 972-50-331-600 (cell)
E-mail: <khaledat@zahav.net.il 

Barbara Uri
Affiliation: Teacher
Fields: Teaching kids peace; Palestinian and Arab school textbooks
Tel.: 972-9-891-0788 (home); 972-54-579-0191 (cell)
E-mail: ojacob@inter.net.il

Jimmy Weinblatt
Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University; Rector, Ben-Gurion University
Fields: Israel’s political economy; Palestinian economics; economics of conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-8-647-7786
E-mail: weinb@bgu.ac.il

Israel-based

Hanna Adoni, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Communication and Journalism Department, Hebrew University; incumbent of the Danny Arnold Chair in Communication, Hebrew University
Fields: media and minorities; communication and cultural behavior; psycho-social uses of new technologies
E-mail: Msadoni@mscc.huji.ac.il

Shaul Arlosorof
Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner
Fields:  Water acquisition; water use and retention in Israel; water as a factor in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-3-648-3279; 972-50-550-7742 (cell)
E-mail: sarlo@inter.net.il    

Dan Avnon
Affiliation: Associate Professor specializing in Political Theroy, Department of Political Sceince; Head of the Federmann School of Public Policy & Government, Hebrew University
Fields: Classical and Jewish political philosophy; civic values and democratic practices in Israel and the world; hermeneutics and theories of interpretation
Tel.: 972-2-588-1533 (office); 972-2-567-2144 (home); 972-54-882-0604 (cell)
E-mail: danavnon@netvision.net.il

Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author, National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il

Avraham Brichta
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Haifa
Fields: Comparative politics; government and politics of Israel; institutional and electoral reform
Tel.: 972-4-824-1743; 972-54-472-3041 (cell)
E-mail: Rspc706@uvm.haifa.ac.il; brichta@poli.haifa.ac.il

Dan Caspi
Affiliation: Department of Communications Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Fields: Mass communication; political communication; public opinion and propaganda; Israeli media; media institutions; ethnic media; local press
Tel.: 972-2-586-9856; 972-54-489-1722 (cell)
E-mail: danca@bgu.ac.il 

Stuart Cohen
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Israeli military strategy; societal-military relations in Israel
Tel.: 972-3-531-8958; 972-3-921-9986 (home)
E-mail: cohenst@mail.biu.ac.il

David Dery
Affiliation: Founder and chair, Delta Leadership Ltd.; Professor of Public Policy, Hebrew University; former senior policy analyst, Office of the Deputy-Prime Minister; former Chief Scientist, Ministry of Interior and Civil Service Commission
Fields: Public administration; public policy and administration in Israel; research and policy; organizational learning; local governance; agenda-setting in Israel’s government
E-mail: deryda@vms.huji.ac.il 

Avraham Diskin
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Government and politics of Israel; electoral and constitutional reform
Tel.: 972-2-566-1323 (home); 972-2-561-7817; 972-52-362-9990 (cell)
E-mail: mshanna@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Gideon Doron
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; current president, Israeli Association of Political Science
Fields: Government and politics of Israel; mass communications; public policy; electoral reform and constitutional change
Tel.: 972-3-640-7394; 972-50-554-2773 (cell)
E-mail: gideond@post.tau.ac.il;  gideondoron@yahoo.com  

Dr. Gil Feiler
Affiliation: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S.-Israel economic relations; Arab markets and economies; Palestinian political and economic development
Tel.: 972-3-644-8977; 972-54-463-0515 (cell)
E-mail: gil@infoprod.co.il  

Eran Feitelson
Affiliation: Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; former chair of the Israeli Nature Reserves and National Parks Commission
Fields: Transboundary water issues in the Israeli-Arab context; transformation of planning and land policies in Israel during the nineties; environmental policy; transportation policy and land-use policy; sustainability indicators for Israel; management of shared water resources
Tel.: 972-2-588-3346; 972-2-679-2693 (home); 972-52-428-2597 (cell)
E-mail: msfeitel@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Itzhak Galnoor
Affiliation: Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University; Senior research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute
Fields: Israeli administration and politics; comparative politics; political communication; political humor; Israeli political system; territory and boundaries; Israeli democracy
Tel.: 972-2-560-5256 (office)
E-mail: itzhakg@vanleer.org.il 

Yehuda Goodman
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
Fields: Identity politics; anthropology of religion; ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Jews; culture and politics; soldiership, morality and politics in the context of the conflict; politics of Jewish conversion in Israel
Tel.: 972-2-588-3430; 972-2-561-0751 (home)
E-mail: inbare@mail.biu.ac.il; ygoodman@mscc.huji.ac.il

Reuven Y. Hazan
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Political parties and party systems; elections and electoral laws; political representation; executive-legislative relations; parliament legislative committees; Israeli political parties and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; electoral reform
Tel.: 972-2-588-1117; 972-2-533-3076 (home)
E-mail: mshazan@mscc.huji.ac.il  

Dr. Yaacov Katz
Affiliation: School of Education, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Educational systems in Israel
Tel.: 972-3-738-4605; 972-2-993-1279 (home)
E-mail: katzya@mail.biu.ac.il  

Mordechai Kremnitzer
Affiliation: Professor, Deptartment of Law, Hebrew University; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute, Chairman, Israel Press Council
Fields: 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.: 972-2-530-0849
E-mail: msmoka@mscc.huji.ac.il
On sabbatical, may be unreachable 

Peter Medding
Affiliation: Professor, Departments ff Political Science and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University; Editor, annual Studies of Contemporary Jewry
Fields: Israeli politics; political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; the development of Israeli democracy; the politics of American Jews
Tel.: 972-2-588-3269
E-mail: speter@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Rafi Melnick
Affiliation: Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; senior economist and former deputy director of research, Bank of Israel
Fields: 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 Israeli economy
Tel.: 972-9-952-7238 (office); 972-54-475-8448 (cell); 972-9-951-3828 (home)
E-mail: melnick@idc.ac.il  

David Nachmias
Affiliation: Lecturer in Public Policies Study Division, Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya
Fields: Israeli politics; political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; the development of Israeli democracy; politics of American Jews
Tel.: 972-9-952-7291; 972-50-747-6858 (cell)
E-mail: davidna@idc.ac.il

Mordechai Ben-Porat
Affiliation: Chairman, Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center; former Knesset member and minister
Fields: Refugees in the Middle East; Israeli politics; Iraqi Jews
Tel.: 972-3-533-9278 (office)
E-mail: babylon@babylonjewry.org.il 

Arye Ratner
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa
Fields: Criminal justice system in Israel; attitudes of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs towards the legal system
Tel.: 972-4-824-0010; 972-4-824-0994; 972-4-824-0995
E-mail: arattner@soc.haifa.ac.il 

Gabriel Sheffer
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Ethnic politics; politics of ethno-national diasporas; leadership; public policy and processes of change in Israel; social-political-military relations
Tel.: 972-3-691-5404
E-mail: msgabi@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Yair Sheleg
Affiliation: Researcher, Israel Democracy Unit; Journalist, Ha’aretz
Fields: Religion and state; relationship between Israel’s ultra-orthodox community and the Israel Defense Forces
Tel.: 972-2-530-0835; 972-50-743-9995 (cell)
E-mail: yair@idi.org.il 

Dov Shinar
Affiliation: Founder and Head, Center for Peace Journalism, Netanya Academic College; Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University; principal investigator, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Fields: Evolving impact of the media on Israeli society and political culture; the media as a factor in Middle East peacemaking
Tel.: 972-8-647-7211; 972-8-647-7212
E-mail: shinard@bgumail.bgu.ac.il 

Yedidia Stern
Affiliation: Professor of law, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Fields: Religion and state; Jewish law; the Israeli judicial system
Tel.: 972-3-531-8414; 972-2-673-1122 (home)
E-mail: sternyz@mail.biu.ac.il 

Gadi Taub
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Communication, Hebrew University; op-ed columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth; novelist
Fields: Contemporary Israeli society and culture; influence of American ideas of Israel; individualism and society; philosophical pragmatism; postmodernism; post-Zionism
Tel.: 972-52-468-1133 (cell)
E-mail: gaditaub@zahav.net.il 

Hani Zubida
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Israeli electoral system; social mobility in Israeli society; Israeli democracy and its socio-economic and political realms; voting behavior; electoral analysis; migrant workers; social and physical borders
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754 ext. 7618
E-mail: hzubida@idc.ac.il  

U.S.-based

Mitchell Bard, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Fields: Israeli society, history and politics; U.S.-Israel relations
Tel.: 301-565-3918
E-mail: mgbard@aol.com
Web Site: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

Prof. Yoram Peri
Affiliation: Director, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland; Former political adviser to late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; former editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily Davar newspaper
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; peace process
Tel.: 301-405-9413
E-mail: israelstudies-contact@umd.edu
Web site: http://www.israelstudies.umd.edu/director.html

Jonathan Peled
Affiliation: Spokesman, Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Fields: U.S.-Israel relations; peace process; Israeli government policies
Tel.: (202) 276-2800 (cell)
E-mail: sp@washington.mfa.gov.il

Malcolm Hoenlein
Affiliation: Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations
Field: Israeli-American relations
Office: 212-318-6111
Email: info@conferenceofpresidents.org
Web site: http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/content.asp?id=63 

Israeli international relations

Israel-U.S. relations

Israel-based

Galia Bar-Nathan
Affiliation: Lecturer and professor, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: International relations theory; theories of international cooperation; link between economic and security issues in East Asia; American foreign policy; role of economic cooperation in the transition to peace; transatlantic relations under unipolarity; U.S and regional economic cooperation in Asia in the 1950s
Tel.: 972-2-588-1722 (office); 972-2-588-1101; 972-8-971-7297 (home); 972-50-640-0546 (cell)
E-mail: mspress@mscc.huji.ac.il

Daniel Diker
Affiliation: Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA); serves as Knesset Affairs correspondent for Israel Broadcasting Authority’s English news
Fields: Contemporary Middle Eastern affairs; internal Palestinian conflict in Gaza; freedom of the press in Palestinian territories
Tel.: 972-50-532-7072

Dr. Jonathon Rynhold
Affiliation: Lecturer in political science, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S.-Israel relations, and Middle East-Far East relations
Tel.: 972-54-577-5817 (cell); 972-3-531-8873
E-mail: rynhold@mail.biu.ac.il

Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; inter-Arab affairs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9892 (home); 972-3-640-6448 (office); 972-54-431-2980 (cell)
E-mail: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il

Roni Bart
Affiliation: Analyst, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 462 (office); 972-54-495-5345 (cell); 972-50-620-5190

Yehuda Ben-Meir
Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Director, Institute for National Security Studies
Fields:  Israel’s decision-making policy, Israeli defense and security, Israeli media and public diplomacy, Israeli public opinion, Israel-US relations
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849 (cell)
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il

Avi Ben-Zvi
Affiliation: Professor, Political Science, University of Haifa
Fields: U.S.-Israel relations
Tel.: 972-52-549-0099 (cell); 972-4-837-0805
E-mail: doreen@post.tau.ac.il

Shlomo Brom
Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-U.S. relations; U.S. and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; revolution in military affairs; deterrence, arms control and balance of power; low-intensity conflict
Tel.: 972-3-640-0415; 972-52-530-7550 (cell)
E-mail: sbrom@inss.org.il

Dr. Gil Feiler
Affiliation: Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S.-Israel economic relations; Arab markets and economies; Palestinian political and economic development
Tel.: 972-3-644-8977; 972-54-463-0515 (cell)
E-mail: gil@infoprod.co.il  

Prof. Eytan Gilboa
Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies and communication; Director, Center for International Communication; Senior Researcher, the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: US-Israeli relations; Israeli and American public opinion; public diplomacy; media coverage of Israel and the Middle East
Tel.: 972-9-746-7636; 972-52-860-7227 (cell)
E-mail: egilboa@mail.biu.ac.il

Mark Heller
Affiliation: Principal Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; the U.S. and the peace process; U.S. Middle East policy
Tel.: 972-3-640-0407; 972-54-480-0725 (cell) 
E-mail: jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il

Itamar Rabinovich
Affiliation: Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States; head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996)
Fields: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; inter-Arab relations
Tel.: 972-52-593-9111 (cell)

Dr. Jonathan Rynhold
Affiliation: Political Science Department, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: U.S-Israel relations; the UK and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Middle East - East Asia relations
Tel.: 972-3-531-8873; 972-54-577-5817 (cell)
E-mail: rynhold@mail.biu.ac.il 

Israel-Europe relations

Mark Heller
Affiliation: Principal Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; the U.S. and the peace process; U.S. Middle East policy
Tel.: 972-3-640-0407; 972-54-480-0725 (cell) 
E-mail: jcssmh@post.tau.ac.il

Sharon Pardo
Affiliation: Director of Center for the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben Gurion University in Be’ersheva; Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies
Fields: Euro-Mediterranean politics; Israel-Europe relations
Tel.: 972-54-677-5504 (cell)
E-mail: pardos@bgu.ac.il 

Avi Primor
Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies, IDC Herzliya; former Israeli ambassador to Germany
Fields: Israel’s decision-making processes; defense and security; civil-military relations; nuclear and arms control policy; relations with Europe and NATO; Iran’s nuclear weapons development; non-conventional terrorism
Tel.: 972-9-960-2739; 972-9-960-2740;  972-54-429-4750 (cell)
E-mail: zprimor@hotmail.com; cschael@idc.ac.il  

Alfred Tovias
Affiliation: Professor of International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: Ongoing enlargement and deepening of the EU; Israel and the EU; regionalism; World Trade Organization; Israel and the OECD; Israel and NATO; Israel and Spain
Tel.: 972-2-588-1053; 972-50-721-7878 (cell)
E-mail: mstovi@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Israeli media outlets

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strategic and military affairs

Shlomo Aronson
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Israel’s non-conventional military doctrine; Israeli foreign and security policies (especially nuclear weapons; Arab and Iranian proliferation efforts and American policy); connection between domestic and foreign affairs
Tel.: 972-3-529-9529; 972-50-871-9993 (cell)
E-mail: Shlomo1@hotmail.com

Roni Bart
Affiliation: Analyst, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 462 (office); 972-54-495-5345 (cell); 972-50-620-5190

Uri Ben-Eliezer
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa
Fields: Israeli “militarism;” civil-military relations
Tel.: 972-4-824-9396 (office)
E-mail: uriben@soc.haifa.ac.il 

Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author, National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il 

Gabriel Ben-Dor
Affiliation: Professor of Political Science; Director of the National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa
Fields: Israeli-Palestinian relations; the Druze in Israel; miscommunication in the Arab-Israeli conflict; peace process
Tel.: 972-4-824-0050; 972-52-866-6435 (cell); 972-4-825-5780 (home)
E-mail: bendor@poli.haifa.ac.il 

Zeev Bonen
Affiliation: Senior Research Associate, BESA Center, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Israel’s weapons development; weapons export industry
Tel.: 972-4-837-7787 (office)
E-mail: bonen@netvision.net 

Shlomo Brom
Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-U.S. relations; U.S. and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; revolution in military affairs; deterrence, arms control and balance of power; low-intensity conflict
Tel.: 972-3-640-0415; 972-52-530-7550 (cell)
E-mail: sbrom@inss.org.il 

Yoav Gelber
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa
Fields: Israeli military, political and social history; historiography of the Jewish-Arab conflict
Tel.: 972-4-824-0851; 972-50-720-5196 (cell)
E-mail: ygelber@univ.haifa.ac.il

Efraim Inbar
Affiliation: Professor of political studies, Bar-Ilan University; Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies
Fields: Middle Eastern strategic issues; politics and strategy of Israeli national security, Israeli politics
Tel.: 972-3-535-9198; 972-2-587-0169 (home); 972-54-660-3409 (cell)
E-mail: inbare@mail.biu.ac.il 

Jeremy Issacharoff
Affiliation: Ambassador for Strategic Affairs, Deputy Director General, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fields: Israeli Foreign Affairs; Strategic Affairs
Tel.: 972-25-303-276; 972-50-620-3887 (cell); 972-54-940-8472 (cell) 
E-mail: Jeremy.Issacharoff@mfa.gov.il

Efraim Kam
Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director, INSS, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Security problems of the Middle East; strategic intelligence; Israel’s national security issues; Israeli Intelligence; U.S.- Middle East policy; Arab world’s defense budgets and military industry; Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah; Middle East nuclear procurement
Tel.: 972-3-640-0406; 972-54-625-2844 (cell)
E-mail: ephraimk@inss.org.il 

Avi Kober
Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Research Associate, BESA Center, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Military thought; Israeli national security doctrine and policy; Arab-Israeli wars; low-intensity conflicts
Tel.: 972-03-531-8107 (office); 972-09-740-6040 (home)
E-mail: avik@doubt.com 

Mordechai Kremnitzer
Affiliation: Professor, Deptartment of Law, Hebrew University; Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute; Chairman, Israel Press Council
Fields: 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.: 972-2-530-0849
E-mail: msmoka@mscc.huji.ac.il
On sabbatical, may be unreachable 

Zvi Shtauber
Affiliation: Director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Israel’s decision-making policy; civil-military relations; Israeli intelligence
Tel.: 972-3-640-0401
E-mail: zvis@inss.org.il 

Ehud Ya’ari
Affiliation: Chief Middle East Commentator, Israel Channel 2 Television; Associate Editor, Jerusalem Report
Fields:Regional security affairs; conflict and conflict resolution
Tel.: 972-2-566-7585
E-mail: Yaari2@netvision.net.il 

Teaching children peace

Israel-based

Yael Barkol
Affiliation: Teacher
Fields: Teaching kids peace
Tel.: 972-9-771-0633 (office); 972-6-754-8469 (home)
E-mail: gybarkol@zahav.net.il 

Zehava Kaufman
Affiliation: Teacher
Fields: Teaching kids peace
Tel.: 972-9-766-3770 (office); 972-6-434-9498 (home)
E-mail: ztmmn@013.net.il
Biography: Israeli school teacher who teaches peace in her classroom. 

Barbara Uri
Affiliation: Teacher
Fields: Teaching kids peace; Palestinian and Arab school textbooks
Tel.: 972-9-891-0788 (home); 972-5-457-90191 (cell)
E-mail: ojacob@inter.net.il 

Territories and settlements

Israel-based

Yossi Alpher
Affiliation: Co-editor, bitterlemons.com; Former Director, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv University); special adviser to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Fields: Strategic aspects of peacemaking; conflict management/conflict resolution; settlements and borders
Tel.: 972-3-540-7585; 972-50-699-9910 (cell)
E-mail: yalpher@netvision.net.il

Shlomo Grossman
Affiliation: Professor of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Settlement and development of Jerusalem
Tel.: 972-3-531-8050; 972-3-612-5511 (home) 

Herb Keinon
Affiliation: Veteran diplomatic correspondent, The Jerusalem Post
Fields:Jewish residents of the West Bank; Israeli popular attitudes towards the settlements
Tel.: 972-50-205-2616 (cell)
E-mail: keinon@netvision.il 

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Affiliation: Chief Rabbi of Efrat
Fields: West Bank settlements
Tel.: 972-2-548-8444
E-mail: rabbiriskin@ohrtorahstone.org.il 

Terrorism and religious extremism

Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Affiliation: Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Fields: Human rights; Digital terrorism and hate; interfaith relations; anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Tel.: 310-772-2450
E-mail: acooper@wiesenthal.com

Israel-based

Dr. Ephraim Asculai
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Iranian nuclear weapons development; nuclear proliferation; non-conventional weapons in Arab states; nuclear weapons production process, treaties and agreements
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 441; 972-54-666-6323 (cell)
E-mail: hona24@zahaz.net.il 

Eitan Azani
Affiliation: Deputy Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Iran and Shiite terrorism; Hezbollah and the Lebanese theater; global jihad movements; terror financing
Contact through spokesperson:
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

Yehuda Ben Meir
Affiliation: Author, National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case
Fields: Israeli domestic politics; civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 469; 972-50-380-8849
E-mail: benmeir@inss.org.il

Haggai Erlich
Affiliation: Professor of Ethiopian and Middle East History, Tel Aviv University and Open University
Fields: 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)
Tel.: 972-3-640-9710
E-mail: erlich@post.tau.ac.il 

Brig. General (res.) Yossi Kupperwasser
Affiliation: Former head of the Research and Assessment Division of IDF Military Intelligence
Fields: IDF Military Intelligence
Tel.: 972-54-558-8960 (cell)

Jonathan (Yoni) Fighel
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, IDC Herzliya; Former Military Governor of Ramallah, Jenin and Tul Karem
Fields: Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority; Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas and Islamic Jihad; security policy in the territories; fighting terrorism; suicide terrorism; Islamic culture
Fluent in Arabic
Tel.: 972-9-952-7364; 972-9-952-7277
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

David Friedman
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Fields: Non-conventional weapons in the Arab world; biological weapons proliferation; chemical weapons proliferation; non-conventional terrorism
Tel.: 972-3-640-0400 ext. 475
E-mail: davidf@inss.org.il 

Boaz Ganor
Affiliation: Executive Director and CEO, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Terror strategies; definition of terror, terror and the media and public opinion; terrorism and democracy; counterterrorism strategy; non-conventional terrorism; suicide attacks; peace process and terror; relations between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; Israeli and coping with terror; coping with countries supporting terror; dilemmas in counterterrorism
Tel.: 972-9-952-7279
E-mail: ganor@idc.ac.il 

Ely Karmon
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya; Fellow researcher at the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at IDC Herzliya
Fields: International terrorism; strategic issues in the Middle East and beyond; weapons of mass destruction
Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian
Tel.: 972-9-952-7277; 972-9-951-3768; 972-52-265-3306 (cell)
E-mail: ekarmon@idc.ac.il 

Isaac Kfir
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), IDC in Herzliya
Fields:  International relations; international politics; the UN; terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; African politics
Contact through ICT spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-960-2754
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il; kfir@isaac.idc.ac.il 

Martin Kramer
Affiliation: Wexler-Fromer Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Washington, D.C.); Senior Fellow, Olin Institute, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute, Shalem Center in Jerusalem
Fields: Muslim fundamentalism; impact of Islamization on Arab political culture; inter-Arab affairs; quality of Middle East scholarship in the West
E-mail: Kramer-query@usa.net; http://www.martinkramer.org 

Anat Kurz
Affiliation: Coordinator, Project on Terrorism, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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.: 972-3-640-0409
E-mail: anatk@inss.org.il 

Moshe Marzuk
Affiliation: Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzilya
Fields: Terror organizations in the Middle East; Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran; Iran’s support for terrorist organizations
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-9-952-7376
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

David Menashri
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations
Tel.: 972-8-940-1467 (home); 972-3-640-6440 (office); 972-54-661-5171 (cell)
E-mail: menashri@post.tau.ac.il

Ariel Merari
Affiliation: Head, Center for Political Violence, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Political violence; psychology of terrorism; Suicide terrorism; deterrence of state-sponsors of terrorism and sub-state terror groups
Tel.: 972-3-640-8978 (office)
E-mail: merari@post.tau.ac.il 

Reuven Paz
Affiliation: Director, Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM), IDC Herzliya
Fields: 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
Tel.: 972-9-951-5771 (home); 972-54-469-1777 (cell)
E-mail: reupaz@netvision.net.il
Web site: http://www.e-prism.org 

Yoram Schweitzer
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow and Director of Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields:  Iran and Hezbollah; Lebanon and Hezbollah; Islamic fundamentalism; international terrorism and counter-terrorism; Al-Qaeda and global Jihad; global suicide terrorism
Tel.: 972-3-640-0411; 972-54-727-7474 (cell)
E-mail: yorams@inss.org.il
Web site: www.labat.co.il 

Yael Shahar
Affiliation: Director, Database and Internet Project, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya
Fields: Cyber terrorism, international terrorist organizations
Tel.: 972-9-792-6447 (office); 972-50-421-7828 (cell)
E-mail: webmaster@ict.org.il 

Shabtai Shavit
Affiliation: Chairman and Board of Directors, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, IDC Herzliya; former head of Mossad
Fields: Counter-terrorism
Contact through spokesperson:
Tel.: 972-3-557-2412 (office)
E-mail: pr@idc.ac.il 

Dany Shoham
Affiliation: Senior researcher, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: Chemical and biological warfare in the Middle East and worldwide
Tel.: 972-3-696-8953 (office)
E-mail: shoham_d@netvision.net.il 

Joshua Teitelbaum
Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; inter-Arab affairs
Tel.: 972-9-744-9892 (home); 972-3-640-6448 (office); 972-54-431-2980 (cell)
E-mail: teitelba@post.tau.ac.il 

Gabriel Weimann
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Communication, University of Haifa
Fields: Terrorists' use of the Internet; public opinion research; media psychology; interplay between modern international terrorism and the mass media; right-wing extremism in Israel; challenges modern terrorism poses to Israel and other democratic societies
Tel.: 972-4-824-9598 (office); 972-54-487-3713 (cell)
E-mail: weimann@soc.haifa.ac.il 

Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University; Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
Fields: 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.: 972-3-640-9100 (office); 972-54-488-4171 (cell)
E-mail: zisser@post.tau.ac.il

Women in politics and society

Israel-based

Hanna Herzog
Affiliation: Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University; Director, Civil Society Umbrella, Van Leer Institute
Fields: Societal attitudes towards the role of women in Israeli politics; gender politics among Israeli Arabs
E-mail: hherzog@post.tau.ac.il 

Women's rights

Israel-based 

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

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

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

Rula Deeb
Affiliation: Spokeswoman, KAYAN (works to advance 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)
Tel.: 972-4-864-1291; 972-4-866-1890      
E-mail: kayan@netvision.net.il

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women Lawyers for Social Justice
Organization - Fights the widening gaps in Israeli society, particularly the growing violations of women's rights
Tel.: 972-3-516-3936      
E-mail: mail@itach.org.il 

U.S.-based

Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York; Co-Founder, Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women’s Health Network; Founder and Board Member, International Committee for the Women of the Wall
Tel.: 212-722-1038 (home office); 212-831-2745 (office)
E-mail: pchesler@phyllis-chesler.com

Nancy Falchuk
Affiliation: National President, Hadassah
Tel.: 212-355-7900
E-mail: nfalchuk@hadassah.org

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Affiliation: Founder and President, The Israel Project
Tel.: 202-857-6644
E-mail: jenniferm@theisraelproject.org

NA'AMAT USA - An organization and movement striving to enhance the quality of life for women, children and families in Israel, the U.S. and around the world.
Tel.: 212-563-5222
E-mail: naamat@naamat.org

WIZO USA - A non-political international movement dedicated to the advancement of the status of women, welfare of all sectors of Israeli society and encouragement of Jewish education around the world.
Tel.: 212-751-6461
E-mail: wizo@wizony.com

Protecting women

Israel-based

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

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

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

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

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

Einav Shimon
Affiliation: Spokeswoman, Israel Ministry of Health
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 

Dr. Hanita Zimrin
Affiliation: President, ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection
Tel.:   972-3-609-1930; 972-050-420-6246 (cell)      
E-mail: Zimrin@eli.org.il
Web site: www.eliusa.org (English) 

U.S.-based

American Miklat Committee  
Organization – Israel’s only domestic abuse shelters for observant women and their children
Tel.: 212-419-2778
E-mail: info@miklat.org 

World food shortages

Israel-based

Eyal Kimhi
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University
Fields: Economics of developing nations; wheat prices
Tel.: 972-8-948-9376; 972-54-882-0430 (cell)
E-mail: Kimhi@agri.huji.ac.il 

Baruch Rubin
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University
Fields: Extermination of weeds in field crops and orchards; how present-day agricultural changes will affect food supply
Tel.: 972-8-948-9248; 972-54-882-0054 (cell)
E-mail: rubin@agri.huji.ac.il

Yakir Plessner
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University
Fields: Israeli economy; agricultural planning
Tel.: 972-8-948-9373; 972-50-560-3340 (cell)
E-mail plessner@agri.huji.ac.il 

Shuki Saranga
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University
Fields: Search for genetic sources for the improvement of plant sustainability under stressful conditions
Tel.: 972-8-948-9040; 972-54-882-0411 (cell)
E-mail: saranga@agri.huji.ac.il 

Ram Reifen
Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Nutritional Sciences, Hebrew University
Fields: Issues relating to food availability and health, including influences on child growth and women in pregnancy
Tel .: 972-8-948-9020
E-mail: reifen@agri.huji.ac.il 

Yoni Elkind
Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University
Fields: Plant breeding; vegetable growth; the influence of water shortages
Tel.: 972-8-948-9246; 972-54-882-0214 (cell)
E-mail: elkind@agri.huji.ac.il 

Zionism

Israel-based 

Michel Abitol
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Hartman Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Fields: 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.: 972-2-588-2600; 972-2-588-1220; 972-50-647-6330 (cell)
E-mail: msmabit@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Shmuel Almog
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Hartman Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Fields: History of Zionism; nationalism
Tel.: 972-02-588-2494
E-mail: msalmog@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Haim Avni
Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew University
Fields: Zionism; Jews of Latin America, Spain and Portugal; immigration and communal history; Jewish-Gentile relations
Tel.: 972-2-588-2489
E-mail: 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
Fields: Zionist and Israeli history
Tel.: 972-3-641-3030
E-mail: michelbar@aol.com 

Yehuda Bauer
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Hartman Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Fields: Zionist history; anti-Semitism; Holocaust and genocide; World War II
Tel.: 972-2-588-1005
E-mail: yehudabauer@hotmail.com 

Shlomo Eckstein
Affiliation: Professor, Bar-Ilan University
Fields: History of Zionism and the State
Tel.: 972-52-425-5233; 972-8-946-2074 (home) 

Yosef Gorny
Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; Head, Zionist Research Institute
Fields: Intellectual and ideological roots of Zionism; British influence on Zionism during the Mandatory period
Tel.: 972-3-640-9175; 972-3-640-9277
E-mail: presstau@post.tau.ac.il; gorny@post.tau.ac.il

Yoram Hazony
Affiliation: Founding President, Shalem Center; member of Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference
Fields: Historical and contemporary challenges affecting Zionism and Israel
Tel .: 972-2-566-5500; 972-2-566-5515
E-mail: yhazony@shalem.org.il; media@shalem.org.il

Joseph Heller
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University
Fields: Early history of Zionism and Israel; Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Zionist right’s response to British Mandate policy
Tel.: 972-2-588-3157
E-mail: msjh@mscc.huji.ac.il

Israel Kolatt
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Hartman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Fields: History of Zionism; Jewish settlement in the land of Israel; the Jewish labor movement, socialism and nationalism; historiography
Tel.: 972-2-588-2387

Moti (Mordechai) Zalkin
Affiliation: Senior lecturer, Department of Jewish History, Ben Gurion University
Fields: Modern Jewish and Zionist history; history of traditional Eastern European Jewish society
Tel.: 972-8-647-2242; 972-50-699-4672 (cell)
E-mail: zalkin@bgumail.bgu.ac.il 

Hagi Hadassa Lavsky
Affiliation: Lecturer, Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew University; researcher, Hartman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Fields: History of the Zionist movement in general and 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.: 972-2-588-2381
E-mail: Hagit.lavsky@huji.ac.il 

Anita Shapira
Affiliation: Head, Chaim Weitzman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel; Professor of Modern Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; Director, Yitzchak Rabin Center
Fields: Zionism, Zionist historiography
Tel .: 972-3-640-9680; 972-3-640-9277
E-mail: ashapira@post.tau.ac.il 

Gideon Shimoni
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Hartman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
Fields: History of Zionism; 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.: 972-2-588-2386
E-mail: shimoni@h2.hum.huji.ac.il 

Zeev Sternhell
Affiliation: Leon Blum Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University
Fields: Jewish nationalism, History of Zionism and the State of Israel; pre-state (Yishuv) period; Fascism in Europe and its impact on Jewish history
Tel.: 972-2-588-3163
E-mail: mszeevst@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Robert Wistrich
Affiliation: Neuberger Chair for Modern European History, Hebrew University; Head, International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Fields:History of Zionism; European Jewry; contemporary forms of international anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
Tel.: 972-2-588-3627
E-mail: Robert.wistrich@huji.ac.il; natalf@h2.hum.huji.ac.il