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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Affiliation: Founder and President, The Israel Project
Tel: 202-857-6644 (office)
E-mail: jenniferm@theisraelproject.org
Web site: www.theisraelproject.org
Orde Kittrie
Affiliation: Professor of Law, Arizona State University; former U.S. State Department attorney
Fields: Nuclear nonproliferation and sanctions
Tel: 480-727-8572 (office)
E-mail: orde.kittrie@asu.edu
Larry Haas
Affiliation: Visiting Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Tel: 202-257-9592 (cell)
Web site: www.larryhaasonline.com
Chris Holton
Affiliation: Director, DivestTerror.org; Vice President for Administration, Marketing & Development, Center for Security Policy
Tel: 202-835-9077
E-mail: christopherh@securefreedom.org
Web site: www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Ilan Berman
Affiliation: Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council; Author, "Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States" (2005)
Tel: 202-543-1006 (office)
Web site: http://www.afpc.org/berman.shtml
Patrick Clawson, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Deputy Director for Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Tel: 202-452-0650 ext. 220 (office); 202-302-1722 (cell)
E-mail: pclawson@washingtoninstitute.org
Web site: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=10
Michael Eisenstadt
Affiliation: Director, Military & Security Studies Program, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Tel: 202-452-0650
E-mail: michaele@washingtoninstitute.org
Web site: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=4
Frank Gaffney
Affiliation: President, Center for Security Policy; Founder, DivestTerror.org
E-mail: gaffney@centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Web site: www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Michael Ledeen, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Freedom Scholar, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Contact through Judy Mayka, Tel: 202-621-3948; E-mail: Judy@defenddemocracy.org
Web site: www.defenddemocracy.org
Valerie Lincy
Affiliation: Editor, Iranwatch.org
Tel: 202-223-8299 (office)
E-mail: valerie@wisconsinproject.org
Web site: http://www.iranwatch.org/
Claire Lopez
Affiliation: Consultant and Former Executive Director, Iran Policy Committee
Tel: 703-583-9573 (office)
E-mail: clairelopez@gmail.com
Cliff May
Affilation: President and Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Contact through Judy Mayka
Tel: 202-621-3948;
E-mail: Judy@defenddemocracy.org
Web site: www.defenddemocracy.org
Lily Mazahery
Affiliation: President, Legal Rights Institute
Tel.: 202-560-9000
E-mail: LMazahery@LRIUS.org
Web site: www.LegalRightsInstitute.org
Gary Milhollin
Affiliation: Executive Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
Tel: 202-223-8299 (office)
E-mail: info@wisconsinproject.org
Michael Rubin
Affiliation: Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Tel: 202-862-5800 (office); Fax: 202-862-4877
E-mail: marubin@nps.edu
Web site: http://www.aei.org/scholar/83
Rick Santorum
Affiliation: Former U.S. Senator (R-Penn.); Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Contact through Virginia Davis
Tel.: 215-528-9368 (cell), 610-658-9658 (home office);
E-mail: virginiad@ricksantorum.com; virginiadavis05@gmail.com
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Affiliation: U.S. Representative; Chairman, International Terrorism, Non-Proliferation & Trade Committee
Tel: 202-225-5911 (office)
Web site: www.house.gov/sherman/about
Ken Timmerman
Affiliation: President, Middle East Data Project, Inc.; Author, “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran” (2005)
Tel: 301-946-2918 (office)
E-mail: timmerman.road@verizon.net
Web site: www.KenTimmerman.com
Peter Zimmerman
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, King's College, London
Tel: 703-966-6680
E-mail: peter.zimmerman@cox.net
Debra Burlingame
Affiliation: 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
Tel: 914-844-3146
E-mail: db@911familiesforamerica.org
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Iraq
Israel-based
Dr. Baram Amatzia
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle East History; Director, Center for Iraq Studies, University of Haifa; Goldman Chair Professor, Dept. of government, Georgetown University
Fields: Iraq 1920-2010 with an emphasis on 1968-2010; Arab Shi’a, mainly in Iraq and Lebanon
Tel.: 202-640-1962 (home)
E-mail: baram@research.haifa.ac.il
Shlomo Hillel
Affiliation: President, The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites (SPIHS); former Knesset member
Fields: Iraqi Jews
Tel.: 972-3-501-7774 (office)
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
Ronen Zeidel
Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Rothberg School of International Students, Hebrew University; Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
Fields: Iraq; Persian Gulf
Contact through spokesperson
Tel.: 972-52-823-6347 (cell)
E-mail: vesnaronen@hotmail.com
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Jordan
Israel-based
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
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
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
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Lebanon
Israel-based
Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of 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
Brig. General (res.) Yossi Kupperwasser
Affiliation: Former head Research and Assessment Division, IDF Military Intelligence
Fields: IDF Military Intelligence
Tel.: 972-54-558-8960 (cell)
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
Major-General Ya’akov Amidror
Affiliation: Program Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs; former head of the IDF’s Research and Assessment Division; former military secretary for Defense Minister
Fields: Contemporary guerrilla warfare; Hezbollah; Lebanon security dilemmas; Gaza security dilemma
Contact via Adam Shay, JCPA Project Coordinator
Tel.: 972-2-561-9281
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Russia
Galia Golan
Affiliation: Professor and director, Program in conflict Resolution, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya (emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Fields: Arab-Israeli conflict; Conflict and Globalization; Women and Politics
Tel.: 972-9-952-7399; 972-54-479-4298 (cell)
E-mail: ggolan@idc.ac.il
Israel-Russia and CIS Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Tel.: 972-3-561-3320
E-mail: ircc@netvision.net.il
Natan Sharansky
Affiliation: Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel
Contact through Haviv Rettig Gur
Tel.: 972-2-620-2215 (office); 972-50-205-2627 (cell)
E-mail: havivg@jafi.org
Russia-based
Alex Goldman-Shayman
Affiliation: Press Attache, Embassy of Israel, Moscow
Tel: +7-495-660-27-00; +7-495-660-27-28
E-mail: press@moscow.mfa.gov.il
Alexey Karpov
Affiliation: Executive Director, Russian Jewish Congress
Tel.: +7-495-680-55-77; +7-495-680-55-77
Yevgeniya Mikhaliova
Affiliation: Director General of Federal Jewish National and Cultural Autonomy Moscow
Tel.: +7-916-153-03-00; +7-499-610-48-53; +7-499-610-86-11
Rabbi Berl Lazar
Affiliation: Chief Rabbi of Russia
Tel.: +7-495-627-70-00
E-mail: reception@ravvinat.ru
Rabbi Pinhas Goldshmidt
Affiliation: Chief Rabbi of Moscow
Tel.: +7-495-226-59-00
E-mail: info@jewmail.ru
Mikhail Chlenov
Affiliation: Secretary General, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Tel.: +7-495-680-55-77
Alexander Shlimak
Affiliation: Executive Director, Hillel-Russia
Tel.: +7-495-952-45-88
E-mail: shlimak@hillel.ru
U.S.-based
Misha Galperin
Affiliation: President & CEO, Jewish Agency International Development
Contact through assistant Ellana Burlan
Tel.: 212-318-6103
E-mail: ellanab@jafi.org
Mark Levin
Affiliation: Executive Director, NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
Tel.: 202-898-2500
E-mail: mlevin@ncsj.org
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Syria
Israel-based
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
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
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
Eyal Zisser
Affiliation: Head of 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
Saudi Arabia
Israel-based
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
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
Turkey
Israel-based
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
Middle East
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
Rebecca 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
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.: 972-09-746-7636; 972-052-860-7227 (cell)
E-mail: egilboa@mail.biu.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
Galia Golan
Affiliation: Professor and director, Program in conflict Resolution, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya (emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Fields: Arab-Israeli conflict; Conflict and Globalization; Women and Politics
Tel.: 972-9-952-7399; 972-54-479-4298 (cell)
E-mail: ggolan@idc.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
Brenda Shaffer
Affiliation: Faculty member, School of Political Science, University of Haifa
Fields: Iran; ethnic politics; Caucasus; Central Asia; global energy; Israel natural gas
Tel.: 972-4-824-0388
E-mail: bshaffer@univ.haifa.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
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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
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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
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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
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Sharon Pardo
Jeremy Issacharoff
