IR AMIM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of International Relations & Advocacy
Ari Paltiel is a demographer at the Central Bureau of Statistics, an adjunct lecturer in the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Heidelberg University in Germany, and is a board member of Bizchut - The Israeli Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance and Administration
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- Chairman of the Movement for Israel - Syria Peace
Dr. Alon Liel is the Chair of the Movement for Israel-Syria Peace, a private consultant, and expert on Israeli-Turkish relations, and a lecturer at a variety of universities and colleges. He served as the former Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and is the former Israeli ambassador to South Africa.
Dr. Maya Kahanoff is a lecturer in the Conflict Research and Resolution Program at the Hebrew University and in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Multidisciplinary Academic Center, Jerusalem. For many years, she has been engaged in evaluating and accompanying organizations and social projects that deal with dialogue between groups in Israel and seek to promote a shared life
Dr. Yael Berda was raised in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, and there she began her work as an activist. She was active promoting equality in housing, education, wages and the environment as well as advocating for local independent governance. Before she became an academic, Dr. Berda was a lawyer in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, and international law. Now she serves as a faculty member in the Sociology and Anthropology department at the Hebrew University and is a visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her first two books focused on the organizational structure of Israeli military rule in the West Bank.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Founder of Yesh Din
Dr. Yehudit Elkana is a physical chemist, founder of Yesh Din and Machsom Watch, and a longtime activist involved in peace organizations in Jerusalem.
Elias Khouri is an attorney who specializes in issues of policy, property, and human and civil rights in Jerusalem.
Job Titles:
- Director of Public Outreach
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- Director of Projects at the Jerusalem Foundation
Nadim Shiban is and social worker and the Director of Projects at the Jerusalem Foundation. She formerly served at the Department of Welfare in the Jerusalem Municipality and is the founder and an active member of Ossim Shalom - Social Workers for Peace
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- Director of Policy Advocacy
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- Professor
- Professor of Jewish History
Professor Elhanan is a professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. He is an expert on Jerusalem and specializes on Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
Professor Naomi Chazan is a Professor Emerita of Political Science and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a lecturer and fellow at leading academic institutions around the world. She currently serves on the board of the New Israel Fund and is the head of the School of Government and Society of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Professor Chazan has served in many roles throughout her esteemed career, among them: Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Meretz Knesset member; former president of the New Israel Fund; Chair of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace; and founder and leader of the Israeli feminist human rights movement.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of International Public Outreach
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- Coordinator of Hebrew Digital Media