Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is a non-profit institute for policy research and education.

"The Jerusalem Center has been a leading voice in the campaign to maintain Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, as a united city under Israeli sovereignty. In his 2007 best-seller, The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City, former Israeli UN ambassador and Jerusalem Center president Dore Gold argues that if Jerusalem is to be a free city where all faiths can be practiced, it will have to remain under Israeli sovereignty. (A Hebrew edition is available as of December 2008.)"


 * Ambassador Dore Gold - President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
 * Professor Daniel J. Elazar, z"l - Founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
 * Manfred Gerstenfeld - Chairman of the Board of Fellows
 * Chaya Herskovic - Director General

Steering Committee
Accessed May 2010:


 * Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman
 * Yakir Plessner, Vice Chairman
 * Shmuel Sandler, Secretary
 * Efraim Torgovnik, Treasurer
 * Rela M. Geffen, Assoc. Secretary-Treasurer
 * Arthur Eidelman
 * Zvi R. Marom

Providing a Voice for Israel’s Experts
"Some of the leading experts who have been featured in Jerusalem Center publications and briefings in recent years include:


 * Moshe Ya'alon, former IDF Chief of Staff
 * Amos Gilad, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense
 * Aharon Zeevi Farkash, former head of IDF Intelligence
 * Benny Gantz, head of IDF Northern Command
 * Yair Naveh, head of IDF Central Command
 * Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister of National Infrastructures
 * Giora Eiland, head of Israel’s National Security Council and responsible for designing the disengagement
 * Shalom Harari, a senior advisor on Palestinian affairs for Israel’s Defense Ministry
 * Danny Tirza, the IDF’s chief architect for the security fence
 * Uri Lubrani, Advisor to the Minister of Defense, former Israeli Ambassador to Iran, and Advisor on Arab Affairs to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
 * Shlomo Avineri of Hebrew University, former director general of the Foreign Ministry
 * Bernard Lewis, Princeton University historian and expert on Islam
 * Uzi Arad, Director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
 * Ephraim Kam, Deputy Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
 * Mordechai Abir, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Gerald M. Steinberg, Director of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University
 * Zvi Mazel, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt and Sweden
 * Robbie Sabel, former legal adviser to the Israel Foreign Ministry
 * Khaled Abu Toameh, who has been reporting on Palestinian affairs since 1989

Contact
URL: http://www.jcpa.org

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