Experience

• Former advisor on Arab-Israeli issues to former Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres; also advised Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense
• Director of the Harry S. Truman Institute of Peace at Hebrew University (1975-1978; 1992-1998); former Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies
• Visiting scholar at a number of institutions, including the Middle East Institute, US Institute of Peace, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Brookings Institution, Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Harvard University
• Holds the rank of Colonel in the Israeli Army
• Author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Oslo and the Lessons of Failure, Jerusalem: Points of Friction and Beyond, Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking, and Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank