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Absorption & Negev & Galilee Development Information Center - 03-9733333 Meital Noy, Spokesperson Office: 02-6752697 Fax: 02-5618138 Cell: 050-621-4700 e-mail: [email protected]

Nir Grossman, Media Adviser Office: 03-606-0700 Fax: 02-566-9244

Agriculture & Rural Development Dafna Yurista, Spokeswoman Office: 03- 9485436 Fax: 03- 9485782 Cell: 050-624-1050 e-mail: [email protected]

Tali Carmi, Advisor Office: 03-9485548 Fax: 03-9485835 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Antiquities Authority Yoli Schwartz, Acting Spokesperson Israel at 63 Tel: 02-6204690 Press kit on Israeli culture, Fax: 02-628-7492 politics, and society on Cell: 052-599-1888 Israel’s 63rd Birthday. Bank of Israel Dr. Yossi Saadon, Spokesman Office 1: 02-6552712 Office 2: 02-6552713 Fax: 02-6528812 e-mail: [email protected]

Border Police Moshe Finsi, Spokesman Iran Press Kit Office: 08-9770416 Fax: 08-9770420 Information on Iran's Cell: 050-733-6543 support of terrorism and nuclear weapons program. Cabinet Secretariat Oved Yehezkel Office: 02-670-5555 Direct: 02-670-5532 Fax: 02-563-2580

Censorship Office Chief Censor Office: 03-522-8541 Israel’s Commitment to Direct: 03-696-2538 Peace Fax: 03-569-3472

A comprehensive package Col. Avi Rosali, Jerusalem on the history of the Middle Office: 02-625-3974 East Peace Process. Fax: 02-624-5199 Fax 2: 02-569-4379 Cell: 057-812-8927

Connect with TIP Col. Ron Carnielli, Tel Aviv Office: 03-696-6208 Fax: 03-569-3494 Cell: 057-815-0236

Central Bureau of Statistics Yael Nathan, Director of Information Office: 02-6592222 Direct: 02-6592037 Fax: 02-6521340 Cell: 050-623-5124 e-mail: [email protected]

Chief Rabbinate Office: 02-5313173 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Fax: 02-538-2695

Civil Administration, Judea & Samaria Capt. Tzidki Maman, Spokesperson Office: 02-997-7001 Fax: 02-997-7341 Cell: 050-623-4081

Coordinator of Activities in the Territories Maj. Peter Lerner, Spokesman Office: 03-697-7138/2249 Fax: 03-6975177 Cell: 050-623-4053

Coordinator and Liaison Administration, Gaza Strip Capt. Shadi Yasin, Spokesman Office: 08-674-1469 Fax: 08-674-1625 Cell: 050-624-6425

Communications Dr. Yechiel Shabi, Spokesman Office: 02-6706323 Fax: 02-6706372

Naama Henig, Foreign Liaison Office: 03-519-8215 Fax: 03-519-8109

Civil Service Commission Arie Grinblatt Office: 02-6705495 Fax: 02-6705496

Construction and Housing Kobi Bleich, Spokesman Office: 02-5847666 Office 2: 02-5847677 Fax: 02-5812884 e-mail: [email protected]

Eran Sidis, Media Advisor Office: 02-584-7654 Fax: 02-678-7662

Courts Administration Ayelet Filo, Spokesperson Office: 02-675-0412 Office 2: 02-6750413 Fax: 02-6750422 e-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Customs and VAT Idit Lev-Zerahia, Spokeswoman Direct: 02-6664100, 02-6664117 Fax: 02-6664112

Defense Shlomo Dror, Spokesman Office: 03-697-5546/339 Fax: 03-697-7285 Cell: 050-629-8148 Ronen Moshe, Media Advisor Office: 03-697-5750 Fax: 03-691-6940

Science, Culture and Sport Hadas Greenberg-Yaakov, Spokeswoman Direct: 02-541-1190 Fax: 02-582-5581 e-mail: [email protected]

Education Liptal Apter, Advisor Office: 02-560-2330 Fax: 02-560-2246 Cell: 050-628-3502

Spokesman Office Office: 02-560-2710 Fax: 02-560-2238

Employment Service Batya Koris, Spokeswoman Home: 03-648-1478

Environment Sharon Achdut, Spokesman Office: 02-655-3715 Fax: 02-653-5953 Cell: 050-623-3326 e-mail: [email protected] Hanan Amior, Adviser Office: 02-655-3702 Fax: 02-655-5958

Finance Sholomi Shefer, Spokesman Office: 02-531-7111 Direct: 02-531-7201 Fax: 02-569-5355

Li Gat, Media Advisor open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Office: 02-531-7200 Office 2: 02-563-5769 Cell: 050-620-4466

Fire and Rescue Service Moshe Mosco Office: 03-943-0108 Fax: 03-962-1118 Cell: 050-620-4054 Beeper: #60181 e-mail: [email protected]

Foreign Affairs Areye Mekel, Spokesman Office: 02-530-3555 Office 2: 02-530-3343 Cell: 050-620-3734 Fax: 02-530-3408

Gil Messing, Media Advisor Office: 02-530-3111/215 Fax: 02-530-3728

Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, Adviser Office: 02-530-3111 Office 2: 02-530-3738 Office 3: 02-530-3563 Fax: 02-530-3728 Beeper: #48707

Government Coins and Medals Corp. Tova Krause Office: 02-560-0100 Office 2: 02-560-0140 Fax: 02-563-4496 e-mail: [email protected]

Government Press Office: Jerusalem Daniel Seaman, Director Office: 02-500-7502 Fax: 02-625-7886 Email: [email protected]

Andy Luterman English News Department Office: 02-500-7524 Cell: 050-620-5432 Fax: 02-623-3388

Hebrew News Department Office: 02-500-7518 Office 2: 02-500-7519 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Fax: 02-623-3388 Visiting Journalists Department Office: 02-500-7515 Fax: 02-623-5897

Dr. Fawaz Kamal Arab Journalists Department Office: 02-500-7504 Fax: 02-623-5897 Beeper: #25138 Email: [email protected]

Elana Dayan Photography Department Office: 02-500-7555 Fax: 02-624-1407

Danielle Harel Greenbaum Administration Office: 02-500-7507 Fax: 02-622-2585

Government Publications Office Natan Meir, Director Direct: 03-514-0450/08 Fax: 03-514-0472

Haifa Municipality Tzachi Terano, Spokesman Office: 04-835-6755/6 Fax: 04-835-6352 Cell: 057-754-8500

Ronnie Grossman, Dept. Spokesman Cell: 057-754-8014

Health Einav Shimron, Spokeswoman Office: 02-678-7672 Office 2: 02-678-7674 Fax: 02-6786491

Tal Harel, Media Adviser Direct: 02-670-5811 Fax: 02-678-7662 Beeper: #77002

IDF Spokesperson's Office Brig.-Gen. Avi Benayahu, Spokesman Office: 03-569-0922 Office 2: 03-569-0798 Fax: 03-569-8222 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com IDF Spokesperson's Office - International Media Branch Head of IDF International Media Branch Major Avital Leibowitz Office: 03-608-0238 Fax: 03-608-0300/12 Cell: 057-818-6248 Beeper: #72278

News Desk Office: 03-608-0245 Fax: 03-608-0300

Head of Europe and Pacific Desk Capt. Benjamin Rutland Office: 03-608-0235 Office 2: 03-608-0326 Fax: 03-608-0300/12

Head of North American Desk Capt. Noa Meir Office: 03-608-0236 Office 2: 03-608-0317 Office 3: 03-608-0318 Cell: 057-818-9436 Beeper: #74061

Latin America and Asia Desk Corp. Gabriel Castellan Office: 03-569-4193 Fax: 03-608-0312 Cell: 057-817-2647 e-mail: [email protected]

Industry Trade and Employment Haya Peri, Spokeswoman Office: 026-66-2000 Direct: 02-666-2301 Direct 2: 02-666-2303 Fax: 02-666-2923 Beeper: #24404

Roi Lachmanovich, Adviser Office: 02-666-4423 Fax: 02-666-2923

Information Center Albert Achdut Fax: 02-653-6953

Interior open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Sabin Hadid, Spokesperson Office: 02-670-1411 Office 2: 02-670-1447 Office 3: 02-670-1448 Fax: 02-670-1628 Beeper: #50625

Hanan Shlain, Adviser Office: 02-670-1521 Fax: 02-566-6376

Israel Broadcasting Authority Tali Ben-Avi Office: 02-501-5555 Fax: 02-501-5521

Israel Lands Authority Ortal Tzabar Direct: 02-620-8366 Fax: 02-620-8399 Cell: 050-621-8030

Israel Police - National Insp. Micky Rosenfeld Office: 02-542-8874 Cell: 050-627-5870 Beeper: #41214

Jerusalem Municipality Gidi Schmerling, Spokesman Office: 02-629-7744 Fax: 02-629-6004 Cell: 057-776-9888 Beeper: #107

Foreign Media Department Office: 02-629-6538 Fax: 02-629-6004 Beeper: #61585

Jewish Agency Michael Jankelowitz, Foreign Press Liaison Foreign Press Liaison Office: 02-620-2780 Fax: 02-620-4013

Justice Moshe Cohen, Spokesman Office: 02-646-6487 Office 2: 02-646-6363 Fax: 02-646-6722 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Shiri Crispin, Adviser Office: 02-646-6527 Fax: 02-628-5438

Department of Pardons Office: 972-2-6466801/2/3/4/

Knesset Giorda Pordes Office: 02-675-3333 Direct: 02-675-3396 Cell: 050-623-3750 Fax: 02-652-1599

Magen David Adom Yeruham Mandola Office: 03-630-0222 Direct: 03-537-9341 Cell: 052-256-9955 Beeper: #33332

Minister for Government - Knesset Liaison Ilan Marciano, Spokesman and Adviser Office: 02-675-3382 Fax: 02-670-3386 Cell: 050-623-3837

Minister for Religious Councils Keren Shironi, Spokesperson Office: 02-531-1385 Fax: 02-531-1310 Beeper: #53355

Minister for Senior Citizens Affairs Yoni Yitzhak, Spokesman Office: 02-654-7022 Fax: 02-654-7034

Elle Baror, Media Adviser Office: 02-654-7007 Fax: 02-654-7035

Ministry for Strategic Affairs Irena Etinger, Spokesperson Office: 02-653-5077 Fax: 02-654-7101

Media Adviser Yossi Levy

Minister Meshullam Nahari’s Office open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Ariel Deri, Spokesman and Adviser Fax: 02-531-7727 Cell: 054-422-2171

National Infrastructure Hagit Gamish, Assistant Spokesperson Office: 02-500-6777 Office 2: 02-500-6712 Fax: 02-500-6715

National Insurance Institute Haim Fitussi Direct: 02-670-9530 Fax: 02-654-0428 Beeper: #60668

Postal Authority Merav Lapidot, Spokesperson Direct: 02-629-0808 Fax: 02-629-0921

President Ayelet Frish, Spokeswoman Office: 02-670-7211 Direct: 02-670-7251 Direct 2: 02-670-7223 Cell: 050-620-5111 Fax: 02-670-7295 Beeper: #44998

Prisons Authority Yaron Zamir Office: 08-977-6806 Fax: 08-919-3810 Cell: 050-627-9452 Beeper: #33841

Prime Minister's Office Mark Regev, Foreign Press Adviser Office: 02-670-5555 Direct: 02-670-5354 Cell: 050-621-6677 Fax: 02-670-5602

Yanki Galanti, Media Adviser Office: 02-670-5465 Direct: 02-566-6920 Office 2: 02-670-5465 Fax: 02-566-9245

Public Security Yehuda Maman, Spokesman open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Office: 02-542-8003 Fax: 02-584-7872 Cell: 050-627-2680 Beeper: #25156

Sari Barak, Media Advisor Office: 02-542-8502 Fax: 02-542-8039

Science, Technology, Culture & Sport Dotan Olivier, Advisor Office: 02-541-1101 Fax: 02-532-8016

Hadassah Greenberg, Spokeswoman Office: 02-541-1159 Fax: 02-582-3030

Social Welfare Nachum Ido, Spokesman Office: 02-675-2311 Office 2: 02-675-2518 Fax: 02-675-2803 Beeper: #42544

Pnina Ben Ami, Media Advisor Office: 02-675-2713/691 Fax: 02-566-9244

State Comptroller Shlomo Raz, Spokesman Office: 02-666-5000 Direct: 02-666-5105 Office 2: 02-655-9108 Fax: 02-666-5150

Tax Authority Idit Lev-Zerahia, Spokesperson Direct: 02-666-4110 Fax: 02-666-4112 Beeper: # 57597

Tel Aviv Municipality Hillel Fertuk Office: 03-521-8108 Fax: 03-527-0761 Cell: 054-222-2034

Tourism Shira Kazeh, Spokesperson Direct: 02-666-4203 Fax: 02-666-4400 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Cell: 050-621-4141 Beeper: #21720

Foreign Press Adviser Lydia Weitzman Cell: 052-358-4395

Transportation Avner Ovadiah, Spokesman Direct: 02-666-3190 Fax: 02-666-3195 Beeper: #62202

Ora Salomon, Foreign Press Office: 02-666-3191 Fax: 02-666-3195

Vice Premier Minister Haim Ramon's Office Tzachi Moshe Office: 02-670-5372 Fax: 02-670-5376 Cell: 050-621-7008

Yad Vashem Iris Rosenberg, Spokeswoman Office: 02-644-3400 Direct: 02-644-3410 Fax: 02-644-3409 Beeper: #42358

Esti Yaari, Foreign Media Liaison Office: 02-644-3412 Fax: 02-644-3409 Cell: 050-200-7072

Academic Experts

Conflict management/Conflict resolution

Moshe Amirav Affiliation: Former Likud City Council member and adviser to PM Ehud Barak Field: Solutions for Jerusalem question Tel: 03-648-3279 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Cell: 050-550-7742 [email protected]

Shaul Arlosorof Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner Field: Water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [email protected]

Yaakov Bar-Siman-Tov Affiliation: Chair for the Study of Peace & Regional Cooperation; Head of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Peace building; Mistakes in past Israeli/Palestinian attempts for peace Tel: 02-588-3150 Home: 02-533-4122 [email protected]

Daniel Bar-Tal Affiliation: Former Director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education (Tel Aviv Univ.); Visiting Scholar at the Maurice and Marilyn Center for Modern Jewish Studies (Brandeis Univ., USA) Field: Jewish-Arab coexistence through education; Stereotypes and prejudice in conflict Tel: 04-824-0050 [email protected]

Gabriel Ben-Dor Affiliation: Professor of Political Science; Director of the National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Israeli-Palestinian relations; Druze in Israel; Miscommunication in conflict; Peace process Office: 04-824-0050 Cell: 052-866-6435 Home: 04-825-5780 [email protected]

Raymond Cohen Affiliation: Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.); Former US Institute of Peace Research Fellow Field: Origins of diplomacy; Diplomacy and negotiating across cultures; Negotiations in Arab-Israeli conflict; Status quo in Jerusalem: conflict and negotiation between the denominations in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Tel: 02-588-3152 Home: 02-651-3226 [email protected]

Dore Gold Affiliation: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Former principal foreign policy advisor to Ariel Sharon; Former Israeli ambassador to U.N Field: Israeli and world Jewish affairs; Foreign policy Tel: 02-588-3182 [email protected]

Shlomo Hasson Affiliation: Hebrew University Deputy Director of the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies in Jerusalem; Senior Researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies Field: Efforts to reduce socio-economic gaps between Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab neighborhoods; Plans for resolving the Jerusalem issue open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian final status negotiations Tel: 03-535-9195 Cell: 054-660-3409 [email protected] [email protected]

Amal Jamal Affiliation: Head of Department of Political Science (Tel Aviv Univ.); Lecturer, Western Galilee College Field: Jewish-Arab coexistence through education; Political trends among Israeli-Arabs; Nation and institution-building among the Palestinians; Political communication Tel: 03-640-9061 [email protected]

Menachem Klein Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Jerusalem and other aspects of Israeli-Palestinian final-status negotiations; Palestinian politics and the PLO; Continuity and change in Palestinian popular attitudes towards relations with Israel; Ideological roots of Islamic extremism and its impact on the Palestinian movement Israeli-Palestinian; Conflict resolution Tel: 02-277-4846

Aharon Klieman Affiliation: Nahum Goldmann Professor in Diplomacy (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Associate, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies Field: Arab- Israeli diplomacy and conflict resolution; Diplomatic history of the Middle East; Israeli foreign and security policy Tel: 03-531-8051 Cell: 054-477-8742 [email protected]

Nabil Kukali Affiliation: Director, Palestinian Center for Public Opinion Field: Internal Palestinian politics; Palestinian popular attitudes towards relations with Israel Office: 02-277-4846 [email protected]

Moshe Ma’oz Affiliation: Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Middle East conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian politics; Israeli-Syrian relations Tel 1: 02-588-2336 Tel 2: 02-588-2300 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Itamar Rabinovich Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); Andrew White Professor at Large (Cornell Univ.); Former Ambassador to the United States ; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996) Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations Tel: 03-640-8348 [email protected]

Barry Rubin Affiliation: Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center (IDC Herzliya) Field: Arab-Israeli conflict and conflict resolution; Palestinian movement; Inter-Arab affairs; Israel's international relations; Israeli foreign and security policy Office: 09-970-2726 Tel: 03-528-7298 Cell: 052-473-2724 [email protected] [email protected]

Shmuel Sandler Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies;Faculty member, Department of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Field: International politics and comparative government; Israeli politics and foreign policy; Ethno-national politics and foreign policy Tel: 03-531-8381 [email protected]

Dr. Jonathan Spyer Affiliation: Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Inter-Disciplinary Center in Herzliya Field: Middle East affairs; Israel-Palestinian conflict; International politics Cell: 972-52-878-3591 [email protected]

Justus Reid Weiner Affiliation: Scholar-in-Residence, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Adjunct lecturer (Hebrew Univ. & Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: International legal issues affecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Human rights, status of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East Tel: 03-6407381 [email protected]

Ephraim Yaar Affiliation: Head of the Evens Program in Mediation & Conflict Resolution (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Mediation and conflict resolution; Israeli-Jewish public opinion Tel: 02-533-9900 [email protected]

Ehud Ya’ari Affiliation: Chief Middle East Commentator, Israel Channel 2 Television; Associate editor, Jerusalem Report Field: Regional security affairs; Conflict and conflict resolution open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 02-589-2286 [email protected]

Archeology

Gideon Avni Affiliation: Head of Excavations and Surveys Israel Antiquities Authority Field: Archaeology of Jerusalem; Excavation of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher [email protected]

Israeli Finkelstein Affiliation: Jacob M. Alkow Professor, Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Biblical Israel in the Bronze and Iron ages; Archaeological and historical aspects of early Israel Tel: 03-640-9703 [email protected]

Geography

Arnon Soffer Affiliation: Chair in National Security Studies (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Military and political geography of the Middle East; Israeli Arabs Tel: 04-824-0146 Cell: 052-866-6434 [email protected]

Israel Domestic Affairs

Hanna Adoni Affiliation: Professor Emeritus (Hebrew Univ.); Head, Communication Course (Jezreel Valley Academic College) Field: Impact of mass communications on; Israeli political culture; Mass media and cultural minorities Tel: 02-588-3046 [email protected]

Shaul Arlosoroff Affiliation: Former Israeli water commissioner Field: Water acquisition; Water use and retention in Israel; Water as a factor in Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution Tel: 02-588-3150 [email protected]

Dan Avnon Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Classical and Jewish political philosophy; Civic values and democratic practices in; Israel and the world; Hermeneutics and theories of interpretation Tel: 02-588 2267 Home: 02-5672144 Cell: 05281005054 [email protected] Yehuda Ben-Meir Affiliation: Author of “National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case” Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469 Tel: 050-380-8849 [email protected]

Avraham Brichta Affiliation: Chairman, Department of Political Science (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Comparative politics; Government and politics of Israel; Institutional and electoral reform Tel 1: 04-825-8882 Tel 2: 04-824-1743 Cell: 054-472-3041 [email protected] [email protected]

Dan Caspi Affiliation: Chair, Department of Communications Studies (Ben Gurion Univ.); Head of the Hurbert Burda Center for Innovative Communications Field: Impact of media on Israeli electoral politics; Israel’s communications industry; Mass media as a factor in the development of political identity in multicultural societies Cell: 054-489-1722 [email protected]

Stuart Cohen Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Field: Israel military strategy; Societal-military relations in Israel Tel: 03-531-8958 Home: 03-921-9986 [email protected]

David Dery Affiliation: Founder and chair of Delta Leadership Ltd; Professor of Public Policy (Hebrew Univ.); Former Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Deputy-Prime Minister; Former Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Interior and for the Civil Service Commission Field: Public administrationPublic policy and administration in Israel; Research and policy; Organizational learning; Local governance; Agenda setting in Israel’s government Tel: 02-588 3059 Home: 03-6869338 [email protected]

Avraham Diskin Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Government and politics of Israel; Electoral and constitutional reform Tel: 02-588 3060 Home: 02-5661323 [email protected]

Gideon Doron Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Tel Aviv Univ.); Past President of the Israeli Association of Political Scientists Field: Government and politics of Israel; Mass communications; Public policy; Electoral reform and constitutional change open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 03-640-7394 [email protected]

Rachel Elboim-Dror Affiliation: Professor of Education and Culture Policy and History (Hebrew Univ.); Established and directed The Division of Education Policy, Planning and Administration at Hebrew Univ. Field: Historical evolution and current status of the Israeli education system; Factors contributing to education policy-making in Israel Tel: 02-678-1679 [email protected]

Gil Feiler Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at BESA (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Tel: 03-644-8977 Field: Economics of Middle East conflict and conflict resolution; International financing of Middle East-based terrorist organizations Cell: 054-463-0515 [email protected]

Eran Feitelson Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geography and Public Policy (Hebrew Univ.); Head of School of Public Policy (HU) Field: Transformation of planning and land policies in Israel during the nineties; Environmental policy, transportation policy and land-use policy; Water policies and trans-boundary water management; Sustainability indicators for Israel; Management of shared water resources Tel: 02-588-3346 Home: 02-679-2693 Cell: 052-428-2597 [email protected]

Itzhak Galnoor Affiliation: Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.); Deputy Chair of the Israeli Council for Higher Education Field: Israeli administration and politics; Comparative politics; Political communication; Political humor; Israeli political system; Territory and boundaries; Israeli democracy Tel: 02-588-3160 Home: 02-641-2406 [email protected]

Yehuda Goodman Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Identity politics; Anthropology of religion; Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Jews; Culture and politics; Soldiership, morality, and politics in the context of the conflict; The politics of Jewish conversion in Israel Tel: 02-588 3430 Home: 02-5610751 [email protected]

Reuven Y. Hazan Affiliation: Professor, Department of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Tel: 02-588 1117 Field: Political parties and party systems; Elections and electoral laws; Political representation; Executive-legislative relations; Parliament legislative committees;Regime typology; Israeli politics; Candidate selection methods; Israeli political parties and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com The Knesset: its changing role, structure, function, and makeup; Representation, elections, and democratic governance; The politics and ramifications of electoral reform Home: 02-5333076 [email protected]

Mordechai Kremnitzer Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Law (Hebrew Univ.); Senior Fellow of Israel Democracy Institute; Chairman of the Israel Press Council Field: 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: 02-588-2580 [email protected]

Peter Medding Affiliation: Professor, Depts. Of Political Science and Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.); An editor of the annual Studies of Contemporary Jewry Field: Israeli politics; Political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; The development of Israeli democracy; The politics of American Jews Tel: 02-588-3269 [email protected]

Rafi Melnick Affiliation: Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya); Senior economist and former deputy director of research at the Bank of Israel Field: 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 Israel economy Office: 09-952-7358 Cell: 054-4758448 Home: 02-586-5804 [email protected]

David Nachmias Affiliation: Head, Public Policies Study Division (IDC Herziliya); Head, "New Government in Israel" Research Project Field: Israeli politics; Political parties and organized interests in contemporary democracies; Jewish politics; The development of Israeli democracy; The politics of American Jews Tel: 09-9527291 Cell: 050-7476858 [email protected]

Arye Ratner Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Sociology (U. of Haifa)l Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences (U. of Haifa) Field: Criminal justice system in Israel; Attitudes of Israeli Jews and Israeli; Arabs towards the legal system Tel: 04-824-0010 04-824-0994 04-824-0995 [email protected]

Michael Shalev Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Depts. of Sociology and Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Development of economic institutions in the pre-state Yishuv; Factors affecting the political economy of modern Israel; Globalization; open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Transformation of Israel from a welfare state to welfare capitalism Tel: 02-588-3319 [email protected]

Gabriel Sheffer Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Ethnic politics; Politics of ethno-national Diasporas; Leadership; Public policy and processes of change in Israel Tel: 02-588-3161 [email protected]

Yair Sheleg Affiliation: Researcher, Israel Democracy Unit; Journalist, Ha’aretz Field: Religion and state; Relationship between Israel’s ultra; Orthodox community and the Israel Defense Forces Tel: 03-512-1280 03-512-1248 Cell: 050-743-9995 yairs@haaretz.co.il

Dov Shinar Affiliation: Founder and Head, Center for Peace Journalism (Netanya Academic College); Professor Emeritus (Ben Gurion Univ.); Principal investigator, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research Field: Evolving impact of the media on Israeli society and political culture; The media as a factor in Middle East peacemaking Tel: 08-647-7211 08-647-7212 [email protected]

Yedida Z. Stern Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Law (Ben Gurion Univ.); Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute Field: Business & Democracy; The role of Jewish law in matters of religion and state; Law in Israel Tel: 03-531-7091

Gadi Taub Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Communication (Hebrew Univ.); Co-editor of Mikarov Field: Contemporary Israeli society and culture; Influence of American ideas of Israel; Individualism and society; Philosophical pragmatism; Postmodernism; Post-Zionism Tel: 02-588-2896 Cell: 052-468-1133 [email protected]

Hani Zubida Affiliation: Professor, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya Through the Spokesperson Field: Israeli electoral system; Social-mobility in Israeli society; Israeli democracy and its socio-economic and political realms; Voting behavior; Electoral analysis 09-960-2754 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Immigration and Absorption

Collete Avital Affiliation: Member of Knesset, Labor Party; Veteran Israeli diplomat Field: Immigration; Immigrant absorption; Diaspora affairs Through her Spokesperson, Oded: 050-916-8884 [email protected]

Jacob Metzer Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Economics (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Immigration and the Jewish economy in Mandatory Palestine; Jewish migration in the 20th century; Economic history of modern Palestine and Israel; Economic aspects of ethno-national divides in history Tel: 02-588-3242 [email protected]

Inter-Faith Relations

Yossi Klein HaLevi Affiliation: Israel Correspondent, The New Republic; Senior fellow, Shalem Center; Also wrote for The Jerusalem Post and The Los Angeles Times Field: Issues affecting Israel's relationship with Diaspora Jewry; Palestinian rejectionists; Israeli inter-faith relations Tel: 02-566-5555 [email protected]

Dani Pattir Affiliation: Editor-in-chief, Justice Magazine; Former spokesperson, Israeli Prime Minister’s office Field: Co-existence between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens Tel: 02-566-5133 [email protected]

International Affairs

United States of America

Uzi Arad Affiliation: Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IDC Herziliya); Chairman of Atlantic Forum of Israel; Advisor to the Knesset on Foreign; Affairs and Defense; Former Foreign Policy Adviser to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu; Former Director of the intelligence division at the Mossad Field: American and European-Israeli relations; Intelligence and National Security; Arab-Israeli conflict; Arms control and proliferations of weapons of mass destruction Tel: 09-952-7389 Cell: 052-333-1626 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Home: 03-642-1892 [email protected]

Galia Bar-Nathan Affiliation: Lecturer and professor, Dept. of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: International relations theory; Theories of international cooperation; Link between economic and security issues in East Asia; American foreign policy; The role of economic cooperation in the transition to peace; Transatlantic relations under; Unipolarity; U.S and regional economic cooperation in Asia in the 1950’s Office: 02-588-1722 02-588-1101 Home: 08-971-7297 Cell: 050-640-0546 [email protected]

Roni Bart Affiliation: Analyst, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); INSS Field: 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 Office: 03-640-0400 ext. 462 Cell: 054-495-5345 [email protected]

Yehuda Ben-Meir Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Director at Institute for National Security Studies Field: Israel's decision making policy; Israeli defense and security; Israeli media and public diplomacy; Israeli public opinion; Israel-US relations Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469 Cell: 050-380-8849 [email protected]

Avi Ben-Zvi Affiliation: Professor, Political Science (Univ. of Haifa) Field: US-Israeli Relations Cell: 052-549-0099 Tel: 04-837-0805 [email protected]

Shlomo Brom Affiliation: Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israel-US relations; US and the peace process; Syrian diplomatic processes; Revolution in military affairs; Deterrence, arms control, and balance of power; Low-intensity conflict Tel: 03-640-0415 Cell: 050-633-3731 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Eytan Gilboa Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies & Communication (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: American popular attitudes towards Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict; Increasing role of communications in international relations; Global communications and foreign policy Tel: 09-746-7636 Cell: 052-860-7227 [email protected]

Mark Heller Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process and relations; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islam Tel: 03-640-0407 [email protected]

Itamar Rabinovich Affiliation: Former Ambassador to the United States; Head of Israel’s delegation to peace negotiations with Syria (1992-1996) Field: Contemporary Middle East history; Israel’s peace negotiations; Arab-Israeli peace process; Inter-Arab relations Tel: 03-640-8348 [email protected]

Jonathon Rynhold Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Science (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Israel and the peace process; US-Israel relations; Middle East-East Asia relations; Political culture; Foreign policy Tel: 03-531-8873 [email protected]

Europe

Uzi Eilam Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies Field: Israeli Defense Forces Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473 Cell: 054-533-3137 [email protected]

Mark Heller Affiliation: Doctor of International Relations (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Israel-Palestinian peace process; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; US and the peace process; US: Middle East policy; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Fundamentalist Islamic movements Tel: 03-640-0407 [email protected]

Avi Primor Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies (IDC Herziliya); Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Field: Israel: Decision-making processes; Israel: defense and security; Israel: Civil-military relations; Israel: IDF; Israel: Nuclear & arms control policy; Israel: relations with Europe & NATO; Iran: Nuclear weapons development; Egypt: Israel, Nuclear; Terror: Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 09-960-2739 09-960-2740 Cell: 054-429-4750 [email protected] [email protected]

Alfred Tovias Affiliation: Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: The ongoing enlargement and deepening of the European Union (EU); Israel and the EU; Regionalism; The World Trade Organization Tel: 02-588-1053 02-679-1450 [email protected]

Africa

Asia-Eastern

Galia Bar-Nathan Affiliation: Senior Lecturer of Internationals Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: International relations theory; Theories of international cooperation; Link between economic and security issues in East Asia; American foreign policy; The role of economic cooperation in the transition to peace; Transatlantic relations under Unipolarity; U.S and regional economic cooperation in Asia in the 1950’s Tel: 02-588-1722 08-971-7297 Cell: 050-640-0546 [email protected]

Isaac Kfir Affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC Herziliya) Field: International relations; International politics; The United Nations; Terrorism: Southeast Asia, South Asia, Horn of Africa; NATO; Politics in Africa Through his Spokesperson: 09-960-2754 [email protected] [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Jonathon Rynhold Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Science (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Israel and the peace process; US-Israel relations; Middle East-East Asia relations; Political culture; Foreign policy Tel: 03-531-8873 [email protected]

Yitzhak Shichor Affiliation: Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science (Univ. of Haifa) ;Senior Fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute (Hebrew Univ.) Field: China’s military modernization and defense conversion; Middle East policy in East Asia; East Asian democratization Tel: 04-828-8524 02-588-2310 [email protected]

Egypt

Uzi Eilam Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473 Cell: 054-533-3137 [email protected]

Eli Podeh Affiliation: Head of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Modern history of the Arab Middle East; Inter-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli relations Egypt Tel: 02-588-3673 09-743-1747 [email protected]

Iran

Shmuel Bar Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya) Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran Through the Spokesperson: Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Uzi Eilam Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies Field: Israeli Defense Forces; Israel’s nuclear and arms control policy; Israeli relations with Europe and NATO; Iranian nuclear weapon development; Israel-Egypt relations; Egypt- nuclear development; Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 473 Cell: 054-533-3137 [email protected]

Meir Javedanfar Affiliation: Founder of Middle East Economic and Political Analysis organization Field: Iran nuclear program, domestic politics, foreign politics; President Ahmadinejad Cell: 054-207-1203 [email protected]

Anat Kurz Affiliation: Coordinator of the Project on Terrorism at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: 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: 03-640-0409 [email protected]

David Menashri Affiliation: Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations [email protected]

Brenda Shaffer Affiliation: Faculty member, the School of Political Science and Department of Asian Studies (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Iran; Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs; Ethnic politics and regime stability; Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia Tel: 04-828-8531 [email protected]

Gerald Steinberg Affiliation: Political Studies Department Chair; Founder of Conflict Management and Negotiation Program (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: International relations; Arms control; “Soft power” in the Middle East; Iranian nuclear program; NPT regime Tel: 03-531-8043 [email protected]

Eyal Zisser Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: 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: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Iraq

Baram Amatzia Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Middle East History (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Iraq 1920-2007, with an emphasis on 1968-2007; The Arab Shi’a, mainly in Iraq and Lebanon Tel: 04-825-4825 Cell: 052-898-8301 [email protected]

Ronen Zeidel Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Rothberg School of International Students (Hebrew Univ.); Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Iraq; Persian Gulf Through the Spokesperson: Cell: 052-823-6347 [email protected]

Jordan

Shmuel Bar Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya) Through the Spokesperson: Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected]

Joseph Nevo Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Regional affairs; Political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian-Arab society [email protected]

Lebanon

Major-General Ya’akov Amidror Affiliation: Program Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs; Former head of the IDF's Research and Assessment Division; Former military secretary of the Defense Minister Field: Contemporary guerrilla warfare; Hezbollah; Lebanon security dilemmas; Gaza security dilemma Contact via Adam Shay, JCPA Project Coordinator Tel.: 02-561-9281

Dr. Omri Nir Affiliation: Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University; Published "The Shi'ites during the 1958 Lebanese Crisis," in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 6 (November 2004) Field: Lebanese politics; Lebanese Shi'as and Shi'as in the Arab world Cell: 054-479-9915 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Eyal Zisser Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: 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: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450 [email protected]

Russia

Galia Golan Affiliation: Lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya) Field: Israeli government, diplomacy, and strategy; Soviet and Russian policy in the Middle East Tel: 09-952-7399 [email protected]

Syria

Saudi Arabia

Joseph Nevo Affiliation: Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History (Univ. of Haifa) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Field: Regional affairs; Political and social history of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian-Arab society [email protected]

Joshua Teitelbaum Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Contemporary history of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf; Palestinian history and politics; Islamic radicalism; Inter-Arab affairs Tel: 03-640-6448 Cell: 054-431-2980 [email protected]

Turkey

Anat Lapidot-Firilla Affiliation: The Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University Field: Turko-Iranian Relations; Gender in Turkey; Turkish-U.S. Relations Phone: +972-2-5881988

Amikam Nachmani Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University Field: Contemporary history and politics of the eastern Mediterranean; Israel’s relations with Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus; Politics of water in the Middle East Tel: 03-640-6448 Cell: 054-431-2980 [email protected]

Middle East

Shmuel Bar Affiliation: Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzliya) Field: Middle Eastern politics; Palestinians; Jordan; Islamic Fundamentalism; Iran Through the Spokesperson: Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Eitan Barak Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Arms control and disarmament; International security regimes; The Law of War (rules of belligerence); Israel’s arms control policy and the prospects of arms control regimes in the Middle East in the post-Saddam era Tel: 02-588-3156 03-535-0678 eitanbarak@,mscc.huji.ac.il

Barak Oren Affiliation: Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Comparative politics; State and society in the non-Western regions, especially the Middle East; Ethnic and national relations; Conflict and peace; The making of the Lebanese army Tel: 02-588-3155 Cell: 02-581-3035 [email protected]

Guy Bechor Affiliation: Lecturer of Arab Law, Radzyner Law School, and of Middle East Politics, Lauder School of Government (IDC Herzliya) Field: Middle Eastern States; Arab-Israeli relations; Law in the Middle East; Israeli criminal procedures Tel: 09-952-7316 [email protected]

David Bukay Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Challenges and crises in the Middle East; International terror and Islam Tel: 04-824-0484 04 -824-7795 Cell: 050-924-7795 [email protected]

Eytan Gilboa Affiliation: Professor of Political Studies & Communication (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: American popular attitudes towards; Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict; Increasing role of communications in international relations; Global communications and foreign policy Tel: 09-746-7636 Cell: 052-860-7227 [email protected]

Jonet Ginat Affiliation: Professor at Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa Field: Regional political affairs; Concepts of honor in Arab political culture Tel: 04-824-0156 04-824-6723 [email protected] [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Galia Golan Affiliation: Lecturer at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya) Field: Israeli government, diplomacy, and strategy; Soviet and Russian policy in the Middle East Tel: 09-952-7399 [email protected]

Dr. Meir Litvak Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Middle Eastern History and a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. Field: Political trends in the Arab world; Radical Islam; Palestinian Islamic movements and their political participation in the PA government Tel.: 972-3-640-7404 Cell: 972-54-760-9115 E-mail: [email protected]

David Menashri Affiliation: Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations [email protected]

Amikam Nachmni Affiliation: Associate Professor of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Field: Contemporary history and politics of the eastern Mediterranean; Israel’s relations with Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus; Politics of water in the Middle East Office: 03-531-8158 Home: 02-566-4391 Cell: 054-498-3585 [email protected]

Eldad Pardo Affiliation: Director of Research on Iran at The Truman Research Center (Hebrew Univ,) Field: Strategy, culture, and politics in the Middle East, especially Iran, Turkey, and Israel Tel: 02-588-3673 09-743-1747 [email protected]

Avi Primor Affiliation: Director, Center for European Studies (IDC Herziliya); Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany Field: Israel: Decision-making processes; Israel: defense and security; Israel: Civil-military relations; Israel: IDF; Israel: Nuclear & arms control policy; Israel: relations with Europe & NATO; Iran: Nuclear weapons development; Egypt: Israel, Nuclear; Terror: Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 09-960-2739 09-960-2740 Cell: 054-429-4750 [email protected] [email protected]

Uzi Rabi Affiliation: Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Middle Eastern affairs; Arab-Israeli relations; Political and socioeconomic development of states in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Office: 03-640-6667/8 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 09-958-9294 [email protected]

Nissim Rejwan Affiliation: Israeli scholar born in Iraq Field: Israel’s place in the contemporary Middle East; Islam vs. the West; Status of minorities in Middle Eastern cultures [email protected]

Alisa Rubin-Peled Affiliation: Academic Director, Argov Fellows Program in Diplomacy (IDC Herzliya), On Sabbatical until October 2008 Field: 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: 09-960-2767 Or Through the Spokesperson Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected]

Shmuel Sandler Affiliation: Senior Research Associate at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; Faculty member, Department of Political Science (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Field: International politics and comparative government; Israeli politics and foreign policy; Ethno-national politics and foreign policy Tel: 03-531-8381 [email protected]

Amnon Sella Affiliation: Head of the Diplomacy & Strategy Studies Division (IDC Herzliya) Field: International politics; Israel’s foreign policy; War, peace, and strategic aspects of international relations Through the Spokesperson Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Brenda Shaffer Affiliation: Faculty member, the School of Political Science and Department of Asian Studies (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Iran; Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs; Ethnic politics and regime stability; Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia Tel: 04-828-8531 [email protected]

Yitzhak Shichor Affiliation: Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science (Univ. of Haifa); Senior Fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute (Hebrew Univ.) Field: China’s military modernization and defense conversion; Middle East policy in East Asia; East Asian democratization Tel: 04-828-8524 02-588-2310 [email protected]

Dan Shiftan Affiliation: Head of The National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Contemporary Middle East; Arab-Israeli relations Tel: 04-824-0504 Cell: 050-546-0570 [email protected]

Emmanuel Sivan Affiliation: Professor, The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDC Herzliya) Field: Political leadership in the Middle East; Islam in historical perspective Home: 02-643-1996 Office: 02-563-3356 [email protected]

Eyal Zisser Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Field: 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: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450 [email protected]

International Law

Ariel Bendor Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Legal aspects of the current Israeli geopolitical situation Home: 03 -573-3708 Mobile: 052-851-0007 [email protected]

Eyal Benvenisti Affiliation: Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: International law; International legal aspects of Arab-Israeli conflict resolution Tel: 03-640-6426 [email protected]

Yehuda Blum Affiliation: Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Legal status of Jerusalem; The refugee question; Palestinian self-determination; Israeli self defense; Settlements Office: 2-588-2562 [email protected]

Yoram Dinstein Affiliation: Professor, International Law, Faculty of Law (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: International law and human rights; Legal issues affecting human rights; Relationship between democracy and national security Tel: 03-640-8678 [email protected]

Guy Harper Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Law and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Public international law; Private international law; European Union EU) law; International trade; Dispute resolution; Regional economic integration; Peace promotion; Privatization Office: 02-588-2561 Home: 02-534-6220 [email protected]

Moshe Hirsch Affiliation: Lecturer, Faculty of Law and International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: 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; Eastern trade open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Office: 02-588-1177 Home: 02-643-5302 [email protected]

Justice Reid Weiner Affiliation: Scholar-in-Residence, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Adjunct lecturer (Hebrew Univ. & Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: International legal issues affecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Human rights, status of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East Tel: 03-6407381 [email protected] [email protected]

International Terrorism

Steve Emerson Affiliation: Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, the largest intelligence and data-gathering center in the world on militant activities; Regularly consulted by the White House, National Security Council, FBI, Justice Department, Congress and Intelligence Services; Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism Field: International terrorism; National Security Phone: 202-363-8602 E-mail: [email protected]

Douglas Farah Affiliation: President, IBI Consultants; Terrorism analyst and senior fellow at Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation (NEFA) and the International Assessment and Strategy Center; Worked with the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence Field: Intelligence reform; Armed groups Phone: 202-360-0802 E-mail: [email protected]

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Affiliation: Vice President of Research, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Consults for Manhattan Institute's Center for Policing Terrorism, the Christian Broadcasting Network and law enforcement agencies Field: Terrorism; Islamic extremism Phone: 202-207-0190 E-mail: [email protected]

Christopher Hamilton Affiliation: Former FBI unit chief on Palestinian rejectionist groups; Oversaw the Terrorism Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Field: Palestinian rejectionist groups; Holy Land Foundation Phone: 703-876-9481 E-mail: [email protected]

Aaron Mannes Affiliation: Author, TerrorBlog and "Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations"; Analyst at University of Maryland’s open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Semantic Web Agents Group; Former director of research at Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Field: Terrorist networks; International and homeland security Phone: 240-472-3839 E-mail: [email protected]

Andrew C. McCarthy Affiliation: Director, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's Center for Law and Terrorism; Former federal prosecutor and a contributor at National Review Online; Led the prosecution against the jihad organzation of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman; Contributed to the prosecutions of the bombers of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Millennium plot attack Los Angeles International Airport; Supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City, coordinating investigative and preventive efforts with numerous federal and state law enforcement and intelligence agencies Field: Prosecution of terror; Legal issues with terrorism Phone: 202-207-0190 x130 E-mail: [email protected]

Neil Livingstone Affiliation: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Action; Author of nine books on terrorism, security and foreign policy, including: "Inside the PLO," "The War Against Terrorism," and "Rescue My Child," which was an NBC movie-of-the-week; Published more than 200 articles in major newspapers Field: Intelligence and national security Phone: 202-223-4888; E-mail: [email protected]

Israeli-Arabs

Majid Al-Haj Affiliation: Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Univ. of Haifa); Dean of Research; Head of The Center of Multiculturalism and Educational Research (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Status and political attitudes of Israeli Arabs; Minority rights in multicultural societies; Jewish and Arab popular attitudes in Israel Office: 04-824-0836 [email protected]

Clinto Bailey Affiliation: Former Advisor for Shiite Affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Defense Field: Bedouin culture; Status of Bedouins in Israel Tel: 02-566-4860 [email protected]

Avraham Sela Affiliation: A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Inter-Arab affairs; Political Islam; Changing conceptions of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Palestinian Hamas Office: 02-588-2322 Home: 02-654-1193 [email protected]

Arnon Soffer open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Affiliation: Head of Chair, Geostrategy (Univ. of Haifa); Vice Chairman of the National Security Studies Center (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Military and political geography of the Middle East; Israeli Arabs Tel: 04-824-0146 Cell: 052-866-6434 [email protected]

Palestinians

Gershon Baskin Affiliation: Israeli CEO and founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) Field: Development of public policy aimed at advancing peace; Mechanisms for Israeli/Palestinian cooperation; Water and economic development issues in the peace process Tel: 02-676-9460 [email protected] http://www.ipcri.org http://www.walkthegreenline.org

Hillel Frisch Affiliation: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at The BESA Center (Bar-Ilan Univ.) Field: Evolution/Internal politics of the Palestinian national movement; Palestinian nationalism; Israeli Arabs; Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conflict resolution Office: 03-531-7936 Home: 02-535-3593 Cell: 054-548-5909 [email protected]

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Contemporary Arab world; Islamism; Inter-Arab relations [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Jimmy Weinblatt Affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Ben-Gurion Univ.); Rector of Ben-Gurion Univ. Field: Israel’s political economy; Palestinian economics; Economics of conflict resolution Tel: 08-646-1105 [email protected]

Strategic and Military Affairs

Shlomo Aronson Affiliation: Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Israel’s non-conventional military doctrine; Israeli foreign and security policies, particularly regarding: a) nuclear weapons, in connection with Arab and Iranian proliferation efforts and American policy b) the connection between domestic and foreign affairs Office: 02-588-3278 Home: 03-529-9529 [email protected]

Avi Beker Affiliation: Leads the Jewish Public Policy Project and the UN-Israel Institute at the Hartog School of Government and Policy (Tel Aviv Univ.); Lectures at Ashkelon Colleg; Columnist, Ha’aretz Daily Field: Global and regional security affairs; Jewish history and Holocaust; World Jewish affairs; Immigration in Israel Office: 03-640-5896 [email protected] [email protected]

Yehuda Ben Meir Affiliation: Author of National Security Decision making: The Israeli Case Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469 Tel: 050-380-8849 [email protected]

Uri Ben-Eliezer Affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Israeli “militarism”; Civil-military relations Office: 04-824-9396 [email protected]

Zeev Bonen Affiliation: Senior Research Associate, The BESA Center (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Israel’s weapons development; Weapons export industry Office: 04-837-7787 [email protected]

Yoav Gelber Affiliation: Professor, Department of Land of Israel Studies (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Israeli military, political, and social history; Historiography of the Jewish-Arab conflict Tel: 04-824-0851 [email protected]

Efraim Inbar Affiliation: Professor of political studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.); Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies Field: Middle Eastern strategic issues; Politics and strategy of Israeli national security; Israeli politics Office: 03-535-9198 Home: 09-746-7636 Cell: 054-660-3409 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Efraim Kam Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Security problems of the Middle East; Strategic intelligence; Israel’s national security issues; Israeli Intelligence; US- Middle East policy; Arab World’s Defense budgets and military industry; Iran, Lebanon, and Hizbollah; Middle East Nuclear Procurement Tel: 03-640-0400 Cell: 054-625-2844 [email protected]

Avi Kober Affiliation: Senior lecturer in Political Studies (Bar-Ilan Univ.); Senior Research Associate at The BESA Center (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Military thought; Israeli national security doctrine and policy; Arab-Israeli wars; Low-intensity conflicts Office: 03-531-8107 Home: 09-740-6040 [email protected]

Zvi Shtauber Affiliation: Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Israel’s decision-making policy; Civil-military relations; Israeli intelligence Tel: 03-640-0401 [email protected]

Territories & Settlements

Yossi Alpher Affiliation: Coeditor of bitterlemons.org; Former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.); Former special adviser to PM Ehud Barak Field: Strategic aspects of peacemaking; Conflict management/conflict resolution; Settlements and borders Tel : 02-644-9186 Cell: 052-298-9299 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Herb Keinon Affiliation: Veteran diplomatic correspondent, The Jerusalem Post Field: Jewish residents of the West Bank; Israeli popular attitudes towards the settlements Cell: 050-205-2616 [email protected]

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Affiliation: Advisory Board Member, Endowment for Middle East Truth Field: West Bank settlements; Chief Rabbi of the West Bank settlement Efrat Tel: 02-548-8444 [email protected]

Terrorism & Religious Extremism

Ephraim Asculai Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Proliferation and control of weapons of mass destruction Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 441 Cell: 054-666-6323 [email protected]

Eitan Azani Affiliation: Deputy Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya) Field: Iran and Shiite Terrorism; Hezbollah and the Lebanese theater; Global Jihad Movements; Terror Financing Through the Spokesperson: 09-960-2754 [email protected]

Yehuda Ben-Meir Affiliation: Principal Research Fellow and Director at Institute for National Security Studies Field: Israeli domestic politics; Civil-military relations in Israel; Israeli public opinion Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 469 Cell: 050-380-8849 [email protected]

Haggai Erlich Affiliation: Professor of Ethiopian and Middle East History (Tel Aviv Univ. and Open Univ.) Field: Political and social trends in Arab and Islamic societies; Militant forms of political Islam; Revolutionary movements in Islam; Modernity. Vs. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Arab traditionalism (especially in Egypt) [email protected]

Jonathon (Yoni) Fighel Affiliation: Senior Researcher (IDC Herzliya); Former Military Governor of Ramallah, Jenin, and Tul Karem Field: Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority; Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad; Security policy in the territories; Fighting terrorism; Suicide terrorism; Islamic culture Tel: 09-952-7364 09-952-7277 [email protected]

David Friedman Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies Field: Non-conventional weapons in the Arab world; Biological weapons proliferation; Chemical weapons proliferation; Non-conventional terrorism Tel: 03-640-0400 ext. 475 [email protected]

Boaz Ganor Affiliation: Executive Director and CEO, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya) Field: Terror strategies; Definition of Terror; Terror and the Media and public opinion; Terrorism and democracy; Counter-terrorism strategy; Unconventional terrorism; Suicide attacks; The peace process and terror; Relations between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; Israeli and coping with terror; Coping with countries supporting terror; Dilemmas in counter-terrorism Tel: 09-952-7358 Cell: 052-447-8000 [email protected]

Ely Karmon Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya) Field: International terrorism; Strategic issues in the Middle East and beyond; Weapons of mass destruction Tel: 09-952-7277 09-951-3768 Cell: 052-265-3306 [email protected]

Martin Kramer Affiliation: Wexler-Fromer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Washington, DC); Olin Institute Senior Fellow at Harvard open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com University (US); Adelson Institute Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem Field: Muslim fundamentalism; Impact of Islamization of Arab political culture; Inter-Arab affairs; Quality of Middle East scholarship in the West [email protected] http://www.martinkramer.org

Moshe Marzuk Affiliation: Researcher, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzilya) Field: Terror organizations in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran; Iran’s serving as a proxy to terrorist organizations Through Spokesperson: Tel: 09-952-7376 [email protected]

David Menashri Affiliation: Head of the Center for Political Violence (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Post-revolutionary Iran; Iranian support for Islamic extremism; Iran-Israel bilateral relations [email protected]

Ariel Merari Affiliation: Head of the Center for Political Violence (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Political violence; Psychology of terrorism; Suicidal terrorism; Deterrence of state-sponsors of terrorism and sub-state terror groups Office: 03-640-8978 [email protected]

Paz Reuven Affiliation: Director, The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) (IDC Herzliya) Field: 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 Home: 09-950-7317 Cell: 054-469-1777 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ict.org.il http://www.e-prism.org

Yoram Schweitzer Affiliation: Senior Research Fellow and Director, Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, INSS (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: Regional and international terrorism Tel: 03-640-0411 Cell: 054-727-7474 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.labat.co.il

Yael Shahar Affiliation: Director, Database and Internet Project, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya) Field: Cyber Terrorism; International Terrorist Organizations Office: 09-792-6447 Cell: 054-421-7828 050-892-8993 [email protected]

Shabtai Shavit Affiliation: Chairman and Board of Directors, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IDC Herzliya); Former head of Mossad Field: Counter-terrorism Through the Spokesperson: Tel: 09-960-2754 [email protected]

Dani Shoham Affiliation: Senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies (Bar Ilan Univ.) Field: Chemical and biological warfare in the Middle East Office: 03-696-8953 [email protected]

Gabriel Weimann Affiliation: Professor, Dept. of Communication (Univ. of Haifa) Field: Terrorists' use of the internet; Public opinion research; Media psychology; The interplay between modern international terrorism and the mass media; Right-wing extremism in Israel; The challenges modern terrorism poses to Israel and other democratic societies Office: 04-824-9598 Cell: 054-487-3713 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Eyal Zisser Affiliation: Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv Univ.) Field: 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: 03-640-8111 ext. 9450 [email protected]

Women In Politics & Society

Hanna Herzog Affiliation: Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Tel Aviv Univ.); Director, Civil Society Umbrella, Van Leer Institute Field: Societal attitudes towards the role of women in Israeli politics; Gender politics among Israeli Arabs [email protected]

World Food Shortages

Ayal Kimhi Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Economics of developing nations; Wheat prices Tel: 08-948-9376 Cell: 054-888-2043

Baruch Rubin Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Extermination of weeds in field crops and orchards; How present-day agricultural changes will affect food supply Tel: 08-948-9248 Cell: 054-882-0054

Yakir Plessner Affiliation: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management (Hebrew Univ.) Field: The Israeli economy; Agricultural planning Tel: 08-948-9373 Cell: 050-560-3340

Shuki Saranga Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.) Field: The search for genetic sources for the improvement of plant sustainability under stressful conditions Tel: 08-948-9040 Cell: 054-882-0411

Ram Reifen Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Nutritional Sciences (Hebrew Univ.) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Field: Issues relating to food availability and health, including influences on child growth and women in pregnancy Tel 1: 08-948-9020 Tel 2: 08-946-7979

Yoni Elkind Affiliation: Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Plant breeding; Vegetable growth; The influence of water shortages Tel: 08-948-9246 Cell: 054-882-0214

Zionism

Michel Abitol Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Field: 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: 02-588-2600 Cell: 050-647-6330 [email protected]

Shmuel Almog Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Field: History of Zionism; Nationalism; Was Herzl a Jewish nationalist Tel: 02-588-2494 [email protected]

Haim Avni Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History (Hebrew Univ.); Head of the Division for Latin America Spain and Portugal since 1967 Field: Zionism; The Jews of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal; Immigration and communal history; Jewish-Gentile relations Tel: 02-588-2489 [email protected]

Michael Bar-Zohar Affiliation: Veteran political and military analyst; Former political advisor to Moshe Dayan, Yitzchak Rabin, and Shimon Peres Field: Zionist and Israeli history Tel: 03-641-3030 [email protected]

Yehuda Baur Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Hebrew University Field: Zionist history; Anti-Semitism; Holocaust and genocide; World War II Tel: 02-588-1005 [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Yosef Gorny Affiliation: Professor of Jewish History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Head, Zionist Research Institute Field: Intellectual and ideological roots of Zionism; British influence on Zionism during the Mandatory period Tel: 03-640-9175 Tel: 03-640-9277 [email protected]

Yoram Hazony Affiliation: Shalem Center, Founding President; Member of the Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference Field: Historical and contemporary challenges affecting Zionism and Israel Tel 1: 02-566-5500 Tel 2: 02-566-5515 [email protected] [email protected]

Joseph Heller Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Early history of Zionism and Israel; Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Zionist right’s response to British Mandate policy Tel: 02-588-3157 [email protected]

Israel Kolatt Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Field: History of Zionism; Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel; The Jewish labor movement; Socialism and nationalism; Historiography Tel: 02-588-2387

Hagi Hadassa Lavsky Affiliation: Lecturer, Jewish Philosophy (Hebrew Univ.); Researcher, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry Field: History of the Zionist Movement, in general, 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: 02-588-2381 [email protected]

Anita Shapira Affiliation: Head, The Chaim Weitzman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel; Professor of Modern Jewish History (Tel Aviv Univ.); Director of the Yitzchak Rabin Center Field: Zionism; Zionist historiography Tel 1: 03-640-9680 Tel 2: 03-640-9277 [email protected]

Gideon Shimoni Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Field: The history of Zionism; The 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 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 02-588-2386 [email protected]

Zeev Sternhell Affiliation: Leon Blum Professor of Political Science (Hebrew Univ.) Field: Jewish nationalism; History of Zionism and the State of Israel; Pre-state (Yishuv) period; Fascism in Europe and its impact on Jewish history Tel: 02-588-3163 [email protected]

Robert Wistrich Affiliation: Neuberger chair for Modern European History (Hebrew Univ.) Head, International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Field: History of Zionism; European Jewry; Contemporary forms of international anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Tel: 02-588-3627 [email protected] [email protected]

Moti (Mordechai) Zalkin Affiliation: Senior lecturer, Department of Jewish History (Ben Gurion Univ.) Field: Modern Jewish and Zionist history; History of the traditional Eastern; European Jewish society Tel: 08-647-2242 Cell: 050-699-4672 [email protected]

Agriculture, Technology, Exports

Spokeswoman of Centre for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO) Daphna Yoresta E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 972 3 948 5436 www.cinadco.com

Marketing Manager, Netafim Ofra Ram E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 972 864 74747 or 972 8 647 3983 http://www.netafim.com/

Polysack, Marketing Division Nir Zalmanov E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 972 8 998 9720/1 Fax: 972 8 998 9710 www.polysack.com open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com General Manager of Agritech International Dan Meiri Phone: 972 3 972 7578

The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute; Executive of Agrotechnology Department Yitzhak Kiriati E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 972 3 514 2868

Alternative Energy

Public Relations Officer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Cochy Abuharon Tel: 972-8-6596710 Fax: 972-8-6563411 Cell: 972-52-5793072 Email: [email protected]

Weizmann Institute of Science; Solar Research Facilities; Expert on bio-gas and bio-mass Roman Adinberg E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 972-8-934-3779 Fax: 972-8-934-4117 Office: Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research 303

Hebrew University; Department of Organic Chemistry; Expert on fuel cells Zeev Aizenshtat Office: Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Tel: 972-2-658-5561 Fax: 972-2-652-8250 E-mail [email protected]

Expert on batteries and storage Doron Aurbach Office address: Ramat Gan 52900, Israel Building: 211; Room: 205 Tel.: 972-3-531-8317 Fax: 972-3-738-4053 E-mail: [email protected]

Expert on hydropower Dvora Barnea open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Office: Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel Tel: 972-3-640-8504 Tel: 972-3-640-8930 (secretary) Fax: 972-3-640-7334 E-mail: [email protected]

Expert on solar energy Sergey Biryukov Office: BGU, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel Tel.: 972-8-659-6737 Fax: 972-8-659-6736 E-mail: [email protected]

Director, Department of Publications & Media Relations, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faye Bittker Tel: 972-8-6461753; Fax: 972-8-66472803; Cell: 972-52-8795863; Email: [email protected]

Expert on Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Air Pollution David Broday (D.Sc) Tel: 972-4-829-3468 Fax: 972-4-822-1529 E-mail: [email protected]

Alternative Energy Commission in the U.S. California Energy Commission Media & Communications Office 1516 Ninth Street, MS-29 Sacramento, CA 95814 USA Tel (US): 1-916-654-4989 E-mail: [email protected]

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Division of Environmental, Water and Agricultural Engineering; Expert on Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Air Pollution Yohay Carmel (Ph D) Tel: 972-4-829-2609 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http ://envgis.technion.ac.il/

Tel Aviv University, School of Mechanical Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Expert on Nuclear Energy Abraham Dayan Office: Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel Tel.: 972-3-640-8443 Fax: 972-3-642-9540 E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Director, National Solar Energy Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research Prof. David Faiman Tel: 972-8-6596933 Fax: 972-8-6596736 Email: [email protected]

Media Advisor to President Shimon Peres Ayelet Frish Tel: 972-2-670-7256 Cell: 972-50-620-5111 Fax: 972-2-670-7295 E-mail: [email protected]

Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Expert on alternative energy in the U.S. Dr. Gal Luft Tel (US): 202-271-0531 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.iags.org/galluft.htm

Alternative Energy Company in the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Blvd. Golden, CO 80401-3393 USA Tel (US): (Main): 1-303-275-3000 Tel (US): (Photovoltaics): 1-303-384-6491 Tel (US) : Public Affairs: 1-303-275-4090

President of Israel Pres. Shimon Peres 3 Hanassi Street, Jerusalem, 92188 Israel Tel.: 972-2-6707211 Fax: 972-2-5611033 E-mail: [email protected]

Government experts on alternative energy San Fernando Valley Office (US) 5000 Van Nuys Blvd. Suite 420, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Phone (US): 1-818-501-9200 Fax (US): 1-818-501-1554

Alternative Energy Company in the U.S. Schott Solar, Inc. Roseville, CA 95661 USA open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel (US): 1 916-774-3000 Fax (US): 1 916-784-9781 Web site: http://www.us.schott.com/photovoltaic/english/index.html

U.S. Representative Brad Sherman Washington, D.C. Office 2242 Rayburn Building Washington, DC 20515-0524 Tel (US): 1-202-225-5911 Fax (US): 1-202-225-5879

Director, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute; Expert on nanotechnology Uri Sivan (Ph D) Sivan, Uri (Ph D) Tel.: 972-4-829-3452/972-4-829-5596 Fax: 972-4-823-5107 E-mail: [email protected]

Professor Emiritus, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Expert on alternative energy in Israel Dan Zaslavsky Tel.: 972-4-823-2319 /972-4-829-2746 Fax: 972-4-829-2746 E-mail: [email protected]

American Jewry

Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Malcolm Hoenlein Tel.: 212-318-6111 (office) E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.conferenceofpresidents.org

Arab Rights

Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Director, The Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation Dr. Elie Rekhess E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Web site: http://tau.ac.il/dayancenter/people/erekhess.htm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com International Communication Coordinator, Association for Civil Rights in Israel Melanie Takefman Tel: 972-2-652-1218 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.acri.org.il

Christian Affairs

Professor of human rights and international law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Author of "Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society," published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, www.jcpa.org/christian-persecution.htm Justus Reid Weiner Tel.: 972-2-561-9281 email: [email protected]

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Data on Israel's Christian Population Press Relations Unit http://www.cbs.gov.il/ Tel.: 972-2-652 7845; cell: 972-50-623 5124

Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality Rafi Shami Tel.: 972-2-629-7744

Foreign Press Liaison, Israeli Ministry of Tourism Jonathan Pulik Tel.: 972-2-666-4207 cell: 972-54-300-1971

Spokesman for the Civil Administration in the West Bank Zidky Maman Cell: 972-50-623-4081

Coordinator for Activities in the Territories Shlomo Dror Tel.: 972-3-697-7138 cell: 972-50-623-4053

United States

Oral Roberts University, chairman and associate professor of history, Department of History, Humanities, and Government John W. Swails III, Ph.D., Tel.: 918- 495-6077 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com email: [email protected]

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, vice president of marketing and communications Ray Pokorny Tel.: 800-486-8844 email: [email protected]

Divestment from Iran

Co-Founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and Director, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Debra Burlingame e-mail: [email protected]

Vice President, Center for Security Policy and National Director, Center for Security Policy’s Divest Terror Initiative Christopher Holton Tel: 202-302-1974; e-mail: [email protected]

Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University; currently Visiting Professor, University of Maryland Orde Kittrie Tel (office): 410-706-7949 or 202-276-5226 (cell); e-mail: [email protected]

Economics

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

Professor of economics at ESCP-EAP business school; Paris specialist in Israel economy Prof. Daniel Rouach E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 33 149 232 265 or 33 608 324 264

Environment

Spokesperson, Ministry of Environmental Protection Sharon Achdut Tel.: 972-2-655-3716 E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Web site: www.sviva.gov.il

Department Head, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University Pinhas Alpert Tel.: (direct): 972-3-640-5689 Tel.: (general): 972-3-640-8633 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://geophysics.tau.ac.il/personal/pinhas/ or http://www.nasa.proj.ac.il

Attorney, Israel Union for Environmental Defense Tamar Gannot Tel.: 972-3-566-9939 ext. 220 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.adamteva.org.il/english

The Institute of the Earth Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Alexander Khain Tel.: (office): 972-2-658-5822 Tel.: (cell): 972-54-788-3481 E-mail: [email protected]

Senior Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science Dr. Ilan Koren Tel.: 972-8-934-2522 E-mail: [email protected]

The Goldemberg Chair Professor in Atmospheric Physics, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University Zev Levin Tel.: (office): 972-3-640-8274 Tel.: (laboratory): 972-3-640-8242 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://geophysics.tau.ac.il/personal/zev

Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Program of Atmospheric Sciences, Hebrew University Daniel Rosenfeld Tel.: 972-2-658-5821 E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, Weizmann Institute of Science Yinon Rudich Tel.: 972-8-934-4237 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ESER/People/Yinon-Rudich/index.html

Co-founder, Jewish Climate Initiative Rabbi Julian Sinclair Tel.: 972-54-779-4553 E-mail: [email protected]

EU-Israel Relations

Brussels

Israeli Ambassador to the EU Amb. Ran Curiel E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +32 02 373 55 24

Director of European Friends of Israel Dimitri Dombret E-mail: [email protected] Phone:+ 32 2 235 72 72 www.efi-eu.org

Executive Director, Transatlantic Institute Emanuele Ottolenghi Phone: +32 2 500 72 80 E-mail: [email protected]

Israel

Former Israeli Ambassador to the EU; Representative of the World Jewish Congress in Israel Amb. Oded Eran E-mail: [email protected] Phone: + 972 542-488-600

Jean Monnet Lecturer; Director for the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sharon Pardo, PhD E-mail: [email protected] Phone : + 972 54 300 7551 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Head of the Israel-Europe Project, a program which seeks to develop ties and avenues of cooperation between Israel & Europe Amb. Freddy Eytan E-mail: [email protected] Phone: + 972 54 200 6067

Former Political Director and Advisor on Middle Eastern issues to MEP Hannu Takkula, ALDE Dr. Susanna Kokkonen E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +972 545 313122

The ongoing enlargement and deepening of the European Union (EU); Israel and the EU; Regionalism; The World Trade Organization Alfred Tovias Professor of International Relations (Hebrew Univ.) Tel: 02-588-1053 02-679-1450 [email protected]

U.S.

Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech Member of the Executive Committee, Israel Association for the Study of European Integration Co-founder, Israeli European Policy Network Dr. Joel Peters, PhD E-mail: [email protected] Phone (home) : + 1 301 657 3697 Phone (cell) : + 1 202 465 5623

France-Israel Relations

Israel’s Ambassador to France H.E. Daniel Shek Tel. : +33 1.40.76.55.68 E-mail: [email protected]

President of CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France, English: Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) Dr. Richard Prasquier Tel. +33 1 42 17 11 11 E-mail : [email protected]

Professor of sociology at Paris X-University Shmuel Trigano Tel. : +33 1 42 39 27 53 or +33 6 24 66 26 06 E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Political analyst and advisor to The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI); Paris Editorial writer for the Financial Times; Die Welt (Germany), Ouest France Dominique Moisi Tel. : +33 6 07 91 69 27 E-mail: [email protected]

Zionism in France and North Africa; Contemporary history of North African Jewry; French Jewry in the 20th century; Muslim-Jewish relations in contemporary Africa Michel Abitol Professor Emeritus, Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry (Hebrew Univ.) Tel: 02-588-2600 Cell: 050-647-6330 [email protected]

Professor of political science, Aix-en-Provence University Prof. Raphaël Drai Tel. : +33 6 20 54 79 63 E-mail: [email protected]

Professor of economics at ESCP-EAP business school; Paris specialist in Israel economy Prof. Daniel Rouach Tel. : +33 1 49 23 22 65 or +33 6 08 32 42 64 E-mail: [email protected]

Former spokesman of Israel Defense Forces, Director of Infolive.tv news channel Olivier Rafowicz Tel. : +33 6 20 54 79 63 E-mail: [email protected]

Israel

Head of press department, French Embassy in Israel Mariam Diallo Tel. : + 972 3 520 8303/13 E-mail : [email protected]

French spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister’s Office Gali Cohen Tel. : + 972 50 628 6831 E-mail : [email protected]

Deputy spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Emmanuel Nahshon E-mail : [email protected]

Former spokesperson of Israel Embassy to France; Communications and marketing director for Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal Yosh Amishav Email: [email protected]

Lecturer, international relations, Tel Aviv University Prof. Emmanuel Navon Tel. : +972-2-9938555 or +972 544 844 394 E-mail: [email protected]

Spokesman for Israeli Foreign Ministry Ygal Palmor Tel. : +972-2 53 03 290 or +972 056 20 32 77 E-mail: [email protected]

Freedom of Press

Bar-Ilan University Sam Lehman-Wilzig Tel. (office): 972-3-531-8578

Israel Ministry of Communications, Spokesman Yehiel Shabi Tel.: 972-2-670-6323 E-mail: [email protected]

Bar-Ilan University Shlomo Shapiro Tel. (office): 972-3-531-8108 E-mail: [email protected]

Hebrew University Gadi Wolfsfeld Tel. (office): 972-2-588-3272

Healthcare

M.D., MPH, Director General, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Dr. Barbash has served as director general of Israel’s Ministry of Health and regularly speaks about Israel’s health care system to international audiences. See article: http://www.jstandard.com/articles/3963/1/Medical-expert-contrasts-U.S.,-Israeli-health-care open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Dr. Gabriel I. Barbash Tel.: 972-3-697-4212 Fax: 972-3-697-4433

Spokesperson, Israeli Ministry of Health Shimon Einav Tel.: 972-2-670-5056 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.health.gov.il/english

Director, JDC-Middle East Program Randi Garber E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ashalim.org.il and http://brookdale.pionet.com/

Public Affairs Director, Barzilai Medical Center Leah Malul Tel.: (office): 972-8-674-5766 Tel.: (cell): 972-8-674-5838 Email: [email protected]

Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Spokesman, Yad Sarah David Rothner Tel.: 972-2-644-4430 E-mail: [email protected]

Deputy Director General and Director of Medicine & Healthcare Department, The Peres Center for Peace Dr. Danny Shanit Tel.: 972-3-568-0680 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.peres-center.org/SectionProject.asp?cc=01140201

Spokesman, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer David Weinberg Tel.: 972-3-530-2473 E-mail: [email protected]

Humanitarian Aid open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Manager of Immigrants Absorption Program, Kibbutz Eilot Daphna Bar Tel.: 972-8-635-8666 Cell:972-52-393-0731 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.eilot.co.il/en/index.html

Coordinator Public Relations Desk, Magen David Adom Israel Jaqueline Brown Tel.: 972-73-263-0004 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.mdais.com/

Director of Almagor Terror victims Meir Indor Cell: 972-54-440-3636

Director, Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team (FIRST) Dr. Efraim Laor Tel: 972-4-6709 944 Fax: 972-4-6709 945 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.israaid.org.il/member_page.asp?id=6

Organization - means "to give" in Hebrew Latet Tel.: 972-3-683-3388 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.latet.org.il/english

Public Relations Manager, The Hotline for Migrant Workers Ron Lefkovitz Tel: 972-3-560-2530 Fax: 972-3-560-5175 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.hotline.org.il

Manager of Arad Office, The World Union of Jewish Students Institute (WUJS) in Arad Merav Leyba Tel: 972-8-995-5370 Fax: 972-8-995 5472 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.wujs-arad.org/index.htm open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Center for International Cooperation MASHAV E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 972-2-651-2636 Web site: http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/missionhome.asp?MissionID=1 210&

Organization - sends medical volunteers to perform free cardiac surgeries on children in developing countries Save A Child’s Heart (Israel Office) Tel: 972-3-558-9656 Fax: 972-3-558-9657 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.saveachildsheart.com/home1.html

Spokesman, Committee for Advancement for Darfur Refugees (CARD) Eytan Schwartz Tel.: 972-54-794-9417 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Web site: http://www.eytanschwartz.com/english

Founder and Coordinator, IsraAID - The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid Shachar Zahavi Tel.: 972-54-567-9979 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Web site: http://www.israaid.org.il

Iran

American Foreign Policy Council; Author ("Tehran Rising: Iran's Challenge to the United States" (2005)); Vice President for Policy Ilan Berman Tel: 202-543-1006 (office) http://www.afpc.org/berman.shtml

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 Debra Burlingame Tel: 914-844-3146 E-mail: [email protected]

Deputy Director for Research, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Patrick Clawson, Ph.D. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel: 202-452-0650 ext. 220 (office), 202-302-1722 (cell); E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=10

President, The Center for Security Policy and Founder, DivestTerror.org Frank Gaffney Tel: 202-253-9433 (cell) E-mail: [email protected]; www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org

Senior National Security Analyst, Center for American Progress Andrew Grotto Tel: 202-682-1611 (office) E-mail: [email protected]

Visiting Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Larry Haas Tel: 202-257-9592 (cell) www.larryhaasonline.com

Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel Jeremy Issacharoff Tel: 202-364-5578 (office) www.israelemb.org

Secretary General, Iranian American Jewish Federation Sam Kermanian Tel: 310-854-1199 (office, direct) E-mail: [email protected]

Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University Orde Kittrie Tel: 480-727-8572 (office) E-mail: [email protected]

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Dr. Michael Ledeen Tel: 202-862-5800 E-mail: [email protected] www.aei.org/scholars

Editor, Iranwatch.org Valerie Lincy Tel: 202-223-8299 (office E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.iranwatch.org/ open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Consultant and Former Executive Director, Iran Policy Committee Claire Lopez Tel: 703-583-9573 (office) E-mail: [email protected]

President and Executive Director, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Cliff May Tel: 202-207-0190 (office), 202-207-0184 (direct); E-mail: [email protected]; www.defenddemocracy.org

Executive Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Gary Milhollin Tel: 202-223-8299 (office); E-mail: [email protected]

Founder and President, The Israel Project Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi Tel: 202-857-6644 (office) www.theisraelproject.org

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution Peter W. Rodman, Tel: 202-797-6000 (office) http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/prodman.htm

Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Michael Rubin Tel: 202-862-5851 (office) Fax: 202-862-4877 E-mail: [email protected]

Vice President, Director of Studies and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations Gary Samore Tel: 212-434-9627 (office) Fax: 212-434-9870 E-mail: [email protected]; www.cfr.org/bios/4643

Former U.S. Senator (R-Penn.), Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Rick Santorum Contact Virginia Davis: Cell: 215-528-9368 Home office: 610-658-9658 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com D-Calif., Member, Committee on International Relations Ranking Member; Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman Tel: 202-225-5911 (office) www.house.gov/sherman/about

President, Middle East Data Project, Inc.; Author, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran (2005) Ken Timmerman Tel: 301-946-2918 (office); E-mail: [email protected]; www.KenTimmerman.com In Israel:

Lecturer in the History of the Middle East, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University Professor Ze'ev Maghen Tel: 011-972-3-531-7812 (office); 011-972-52-383-4069 (cell); E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa

Chair of Modern Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University David Menashri Tel: 011-972-3-640-8911 or 011-972-3-640-6161 (office); 011-972-8-940-1467 (home); E-mail: [email protected]

Israeli Media Outlets

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

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

Daily Hebrew language newspaper Ma’ariv 2 Karlebach St. Tel Aviv 67132 Tel.: 972-3-563-2111 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Daily English language newspaper The Jerusalem Post P.O. Box 81 Jerusalem 91000 Tel.: 972-2-531-5666 English-language Web site: www.jpost.com

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

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

Israeli Society

Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University (United States) Office: 404-727-2798

Director, Independent Media Review & Analysis Aaron Lerner (Israel) Office: 972-9-760-4719 Cell: 972-54-231-6470 Email: [email protected]

Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy David Makovsky (United States) Office: 202-452-0650 Email: [email protected]

Professor of Political Science, Bar Ilan University, Begin-Sadat Center Gerald Steinberg (Israel) Office direct: 972-3-531-8043 Cell: 972-54-890-445 Email: [email protected]

Professor of History, James Madison College, Director, Jewish Studies Kenneth Waltzer (United States) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Office: 517-432-3493 Email: [email protected]

Mediterranean Union

Scientific Advisor to the Museum of Europe in Brussels; Professor of European Early Modern History at the University of Tel Aviv; Former Israeli Ambassador in Paris Elie Barnavi Phone: 972 6 417 177/640 E-mail: [email protected]

Former Israeli Ambassador to the EU; Representative of the World Jewish Congress in Israel Amb. Oded Eran Phone: 972 54 24 88 600 [email protected]

Deputy Director General of the Middle East and Peace Process Division in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yaakov Hadas Phone: 972 2 530 3418 Mobil: 972 50 6203112 E-mail: [email protected]

French ambassador in charge of the Mediterranean cultural workshop Jacques Huntzinger Phone: 33 147 649 550 [email protected]

Jean Monnet Lecturer; Director for the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sharon Pardo, PhD Phone : 972 54 300 7551 E-mail: [email protected]

Israel’s Ambassador to France H.E. Daniel Shek Phone: 33-140-765-568 [email protected]

Peace

U.S.-based experts

Executive Director open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Art Abramson, Ph.D. Baltimore Jewish Council Tel: 410-542-4850 [email protected]

Executive Director, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D. Tel: 301-565-3918 [email protected]

Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC) Ronald Halber Tel: 301-770-0881 [email protected]

Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies U.S. Ambassador Martin S. Indyk Tel: 202-797-6492 [email protected]

Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process The Washington Institute for Near East Policy David Makovsky Tel: 202-452-0650 [email protected]

Founder and President, The Israel Project Annapolis; Resident Active Member of Annapolis Jewish Community Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi Tel: 202-857-6644 [email protected]

Chief U.S. Correspondent, Haaretz Shmuel Rosner Tel: 301-801-5220 [email protected]

Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross Tel: 202-452-0650 [email protected]

Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Peace Robert Satloff, Ph.D. Tel: 202-452-0650 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com [email protected]

Press Counselor, Embassy of Israel David Siegel Tel: 202-364-5538 Web site: www.israelemb.org

Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; Director, Middle East Democracy and Development Project; The Brookings Institution, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; Assistant to Dr. Cofman Wittes Tamara Cofman Wittes, Ph.D. Andrew Masloski: Tel: 202-797-6043 [email protected]

Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney David Wurmser, Ph.D. Tel: 202-746-2046 [email protected]

Israel-based experts

Senior Foreign Press Coordinator, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office (Jerusalem) David Baker Tel: 011-972-2-677-3649 (office); 011-972-50-620-5061 (cell) Web site: www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng

Foreign Press & Public Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Israel Prime Minister’s Office Miri Eisin Tel: 011-972-50-620-5273 [email protected]

Spokesperson Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Jerusalem) Mark Regev Tel: 011-972-2-530-3111 (Main office) Web site: www.mfa.gov.il/mfa

Pediatric Care

Spokesperson, Israel Ministry of Health Shimon Einav Tel.: 972-2-670-5056 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.health.gov.il/english

Director, JDC-Middle East Program Randi Garber E-mail: [email protected] Web sites: http://www.ashalim.org.il and http://brookdale.pionet.com/

Coordinator, Safe Kids Israel Michael Klein Tel.: 972-3-925-3213 Fax: 972-3-925-3261 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.beterem.org (Hebrew) or http://www.beterem.org/template/default.asp?maincat=12 (English)

Spokeswoman, The National Center for Children's Safety and Health Drora Navon Tel.: 972-3-926-3106 E-mail: [email protected]

Director, The Edmond & Lily Safra Children’s Hospital Gideon Paret Tel.: 972-3-530-2895 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://eng.sheba.co.il/414/ (English

Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

President, ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection Dr. Hanita Zimrin Tel.: 972-3-609-1930 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.eliusa.org (English) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Protecting Women

Spokesman, Israel Ministry of Social Affairs Nahum Eido Tel: 972-2-675-7424 E-mail: [email protected]

President, Women’s International Zionist’s Organization (WIZO) Helena Glazer Tel.: 972-3-692-3716 E-mail: [email protected]

Director, Israel Trauma Coalition Tali Lavanon Tel.: 972-2-586-6385 E-mail: [email protected]

Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Director, Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center Miriam Schler Tel.: 972-3-516-7664, ext. 201 E-mail: [email protected]

Director - International Department, NA'AMAT Israel Shirli Shavit Tel.: 972-3-692-1904 E-mail: [email protected]

Spokeswoman, Israel Ministry of Health Einav Shimon Tel.: 972-2-670-5056 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.health.gov.il/english

The Israel Women’s Network Tel.: 972-3-612-3990 E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com President, ELI: Israel Association for Child Protection Dr. Hanita Zimrin Tel.: 972-3-609-1930 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.eliusa.org

Religious Freedoms

Bar-Ilan University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Menachem Friedman Tel.: 972-3-531-8624 (office) E-mail: [email protected]

Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law Yedidia Stern Tel.: 972-3-531-8414 (office direct) E-mail: [email protected]

Tourism

Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality Yossi Gottesman Tel.: 972-2-629-7744 Email: [email protected]

Special Advisor for Religious Affairs, Jerusalem Municipality Motti Levi Tel.: 972-2-629-6666

Israeli Ministry of Tourism Spokesperson Shira Kazeh Tel.: 972-2-666-4203

Spokesman for the Civil Administration in the West Bank Zidky Maman Tel: 972-50-623-4081 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Spokesman, International Christian Embassy David Parsons Tel.: 972-2-539-9700

Bridges for Peace media Ron Ross Tel.: 972-2-624-5004

Foreign Press Liaison, Jerusalem Municipality Rafi Shamir Tel.: 972-2-629-7744

Turkey

Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board Business Council Coordinators Phone: (90) (212) 339 50 00 Email: [email protected]

The Israel-Turkey Business Council Menashe Carmon (lead Israeli representative to the council) Managing Director, Overseas Export Import Ltd. Phone: +972-3683-6833

The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Phone: (90) 312-413-8000 Email: [email protected] http://www.tobb.org.tr/eng/haber/haberarsiv.php

Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures (including the Energy sector) http://www.mni.gov.il/mni/en-US/default.htm

Minister of National Infrastructures Binyamin (Fouad) Ben Eliezer Phone: +972-2-5006711

Media Advisor to the Minister Ronen Moshe Phone: +972-2-5006730 Email: [email protected]

Director General of Natural Gas Authority open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Yeoshua (Shuki) Stern Phone: +972-2-5006843 Email: [email protected] http://www.mni.gov.il/mni/en-US/Energy/NaturalGas/

Turko-Iranian Relations; Gender in Turkey; Turkish-U.S. Relations Anat Lapidot-Firilla The Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University Phone: +972-2-5881988

Voting

Israel Ministry of Interior, Spokesperson Sabin Hadad Tel.: 972-2-670-1415 E-mail: [email protected]

Foreign Press Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Water

The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences Prof. Uri Shani The Hebrew University of Jerusalem P.O. Box 12 Rehovot 76100, Israel Phone: 972 8 948 936 Fax: 972 8 947 5181 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Chairman, Israeli Association of Water Resources The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Haim Gvirtzman Phone: 972 2 658 4912 E-mail: [email protected]

CEO of Mekorot Water Company – Israel National Water Co. Ronen Wolfman Mekorot Water Company – Israel National Water Co. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com 9 Linkoln St., 67134 P.O. Box: 20128 Tel Aviv 61201, Israel Phone: 972 3 623 0555/0411 Fax: 972 3 623 0833 www.mekorot.co.il

President of Israeli Water Association Environmental Science Division, Graduate School of Applied Science Prof. Avner Adin The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904, Israel Phone: 972 2 658 5550 Fax: 972 2 563 5266 E-mail: [email protected] http://sites.huji.ac.il/applsci/es/adin/ www.israelwater.org.il

Former Water Commissioner Shimon Tal 14 Hamasger St. Tel Aviv 61203, Israel Phone: 972 3 636 9600 Fax: 972 3 636 9750 E-mail: [email protected]

Director of Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research Prof. Eilon Adar Phone: 972 8 659 6797 or 972 8 659 6714 Fax: 972 8 659 6889 E-mail: [email protected]

Women’s Rights

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

Spokeswoman, Isha L’Isha (Literal translation: Woman to Woman; the most veteran, grassroots feminist organization in Israel and the country’s leading voice for women’s rights.) Yahel Ash Kurlander Tel: 972-4-865-0977 E-mail: [email protected]

Spokeswoman, Economic Empowerment for Women (Reduces poverty and bridges social and economic disparities among women in open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Israel) Ilany Ayelet Tel.: 972- 4- 852-0027 E-mail: [email protected]

Spokeswoman, KAYAN (Advances 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) Rula Deeb Tel: 972-4-864-1291 or 972-4-866-1890 E-mail: [email protected]

Spokesman, Israel Ministry of Social Affairs Nahum Eido Tel: 972-2-675-7424 E-mail: [email protected]

Director, Association of Bedouin Women to Promote Education Rula Elatuna E-mail: [email protected]

Chairwoman, Committee on Women’s Status of the Israel Lawyers Association; director, Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel; visiting professor, College of Management Academic Studies University College London; visiting professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; emerita chair, Israeli Association for Freedom of Science, Religion and Culture Frances Raday (PhD) E-mail: [email protected]

Foreign Press Adviser, Prime Minister's Office Mark Regev Tel. (office): 972-2-670-5555 Tel. (direct): 972-2-670-5354 Fax: 972-2-670-5602

Spokeswoman, Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel Einat Rubin E-mail: [email protected]

Organization - Improves and advances the status of working women at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder Sister for Women in Israel Tel: 972-3-687-0545 E-mail: [email protected]

Co-founder and president, Strauss-Elite Group Raya Strauss Bendror E-mail: [email protected] open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Organization - Fights the widening gaps in Israeli society, particularly what they refer to as the “growing violation of women's rights.” Women Lawyers for Social Justice Tel: 972-3-516-3936 E-mail: [email protected]

Area Contacts for Cities and Communities Hit by Hezbollah Missiles

Afula

Mayor Avi Alakbetz Tel.: 04-652-0355

Deputy Mayor Menahem Yavor Tel.: 04-652-0321/2

HaEmek Hospital Spokeswoman Merav Moyal Tel.: 04-649-4023; Cell: 057-722-6069

Akko

Municipality: Tel.: 04-995-6000

Mayor Shimon Lankri Call spokeswoman Merav Tzuker: Cell: 052-386-3890

Director of the Akko Festival Albert Benshlosh (English-and French-speaking resident) Tel: 052-371-8926

Restaurant owner Uri Buri (speaks English) Tel.: 050-457-0719

Hadera open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Mayor Chaim Avitan Tel.: 04-630-3311

Spokeswoman Meira Goronova Tel.: 04-630-3313

Haifa

Municipality Tel.: 04-835-6865

Spokesperson Tzachi Tarno Tel.: 04-835-6754 Cell: 057-754-8500

Police Chief Commander David Ben Atir contact through spokesperson: Moshe Weitzmann Tel.: 050-627-3227

Rambam Hospital Spokesperson David Ratner Tel.: 04-854-2718

English-speaking Yossi Zur (lost his teenage son in a suicide attack in 2003) Cell.: 054-424-8912

General Manager of Haifa Tourist Board Moshe Tzur-Zurich Tel.: 04-853-5606 Cell: 054- 853-5606

English-speaking Yossi Mendellevich (lost his 13 years old son in suicide attack in 2003) Tel.: 04-834-1672

German-and English-speaking resident Ron Kehrmann (lost his teen-age daughter in a suicide attack in 2003) Cell: 054-491-1822 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com English-speaking resident Alex Gan Cell: 052-878-9999

Russian-speaking Haifa City Council member Yulia Straim Cell: 050-729-8897

Spanish-speaking resident, originally from Buenos Aires Mario Wainstein Tel.: 054-462-1179

French-and Bulgarian-speaking resident Mathy Cohen Cell: 054-648-0250

Russian-and Bulgarian-speaking resident Izzi Cohen Cell: 054-648-0240

English-speaking residents from the United States Carol and Paul Goldgeiger Tel.: 04-833-8020

English-speaking resident Yossi Gluzman Cell: 050-728-3356 Email: [email protected]

Karmel

Municipality: Tel.: 04-908-5502/3/4/5

Spokesperson Leviah Shalev Fischer (English speaker) Tel:. 04-908-5561

Russian speaker Rina Greenberg open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Tel.: 04-908-5511

Spanish, French and English speaker Hanna Koval (General Director of municipality) Cell: 054-662-6806 Tel: 04-908-5531

Kfar Giladi

Main Office: Tel.: 04-694-6555

Information Center: Tel.: 04-694-6377

Kfar Verdim

English-speaking resident Elaine Levitt Cell: 052-851-2313

Kiryat Shmona

Municipality: Tel.: 04-694-2610 Tel.: 04-690-8406

Spokesperson Doron Shnaper Tel.: 050-867 5052

International Relations Officer Susan Shosh Peretz (speaks English, German and Greek) Tel: 052-666-3686

French speaking resident Meir Marciano Tel.: 050-869-7660

Ma’a lot-Tarshiha open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Municipality Tel.: 04-957-8800

Spokesman Isfahan Baalul Tel.: 050-562-6584

Mayor Shlomo Buchbut Tel.: 04-957-8800

Metula

Municipality: Tel.: 04-694-1364

Spokesman (Head of Municipality) Yaakov Katz CelL: 050-530-0552; 057-775-7766

Nahariya

Municipality Tel.: 04-987-9811

Spokesperson Gadi Ness Tel.: 052-226-9500

Western Galilee Nahariya Hospital, Director of the hospital Dr. Moshe Daniel Tel.: 04-910-7770 Hospital Web site: http://www.wgh.org.il/site/homepage.asp?lang=ENπ=32

English-speaking resident Galia Mori Tel.: 052-282-8195

Spanish-speaking resident President of the Association of Immigrants from Latin America, Spain and Portugal in Israel Alicia Hecht Tel.: 04-900-0613; Cell: 050-857-9066 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Russian-speaking resident Semyon Goretsky Tel.: 04-951-3637

French-speaking residents Benoid and Chantale Dourieze Cell: 052-520-1335 or Cell: 052-482-9676

Nazareth

Municipality: 04-645-9201

Spokesman Safuan Fahoum Tel.: 054-541-9201

Peki’in

Tourist Center Tel.: 04-997-8650

Rosh Pina

English-speaking resident Kenny Elias Cell: 050-893-9042

French-speaking resident Jacky Buchvut Tel.: 04-693-6617

English-speaking resident and tour guide Richard Woolf Cell: 050-589-4647

Southern Golan

English- speaking residents, originally from Chicago open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Mark and Tamar Kaplan Tel: 04-676-2460 Tamar cell: 052-831-9941 Mark cell: 052-831-9938

Tiberias

Head of municipality Zohar Oved Tel.: 04-673-9513; 04-673-9546

Spokesperson Shani Yisraeli Cell: 057-351-2017

English-speaking resident Hadar Rosenthal Cell: 052-390-7764

Tzfat

Information Center (Dept. of Public Relations): Tel.: 04-692-7400

English speaking resident Laurie Rappaport: Tel.: 04-697-3604; Cell: 050-893-9092

English speaking resident Miriam Botzer Tel.: 04-692-2667

Upper Galilee

Community Director for Upper Galilee Regional Council Ya'ara Kadosh Cell: 050-522-6312

Sderot and Area Contact open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com The Israel Project

Director, The Israel Project’s Jerusalem Office Marcus Sheff Tel: 02-623-6427 Cell: 054-807-9177 [email protected]

Senior Advisor for Research & Communications, Jerusalem Office Leah Soibel Tel: 0-2-623-6427 Cell: 054-807-9041 [email protected]

Medical Professionals

Spokesperson for Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem Yael Bosem-Levi Tel: 972-50-404-8666

Magen David Adom (MDA) International Relations Division (for the latest updates on number of injured and casualties) Jacqueline Brown [email protected]

Deputy Director of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon Dr. Emeil Chai Tel: 08-674-5600

Spokesperson for Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva Inbar Guter Cell: 050-626-3063

Spokesperson for Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon Barzilai Hospital currently treating Palestinians injured in Gaza and Qassam rocket attack victim Leah Malul Tel: 08-674-5766 Cell: 057-767-8766

Spokesperson for Shaarey Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem Shoham Rubio Cell: 972-50-740-0661 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com MDA Director and Spokesman for the Negev (southern) region Yehuda Shushan Cell: 052-246-2771

Spokesman for Magen David Adom Yerucham Mandola Cell: 052-256-9955 [email protected]

Magen David Adom Yoni (E) Yagodovsky Tel: 052-890-2888

Head Nurse of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon Shosh Tel: 057-767-8800

International Emergency Medical Services

Jerusalem Representative, International Committee of the Red Cross Bernard Barret Tel: 02-582-8845 Cell: 052-526-0191

Jerusalem Representative, International Committee of the Red Cross Bana Sayeh Tel: 02-582-8845 Cell: 052-601-9142

Southern Area Contacts

Ashkelon

Deputy Mayor of Ashkelon Marius Levy Cell: 054-9908382

Assistant to Ashkelon Municipality Spokesperson (Russian-speaking) Gregory Mezin Cell: 050-899-8698 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Spokesperson for Ashkelon Municipality Anat Weinstein-Berkowitz Tel: 08-679-2385 Cell: 050-899-8385

Eshkol

Mayor of Eshkol region Chaim Yalin (Spanish-speaker) Tel.: 972-8-992-9102 Cell: 972-54-791-7222

Netivot

Mayor for the City of Netivot Yechiel Zohar Tel: 08-993-8701; 08-993-8701; 08-993-8700

Spokesperson for the City of Netivot Benny Cohen Tel: 08-993-8766 Cell: 054-667-7266

Head of Security for the City of Netivot Erez Kidhar (Languages: English and Spanish) Cell: 054-667-7861

Sderot

Municipal Spokesperson Shalom Tel: 057 899 4586 Tel: 08-662-0200; 689-3156

Sderot City Council (Russian-speaking) Elena Biryukova Tel: 08-662-0208 Cell: 054-694-4149

Assistant to Sderot Spokesman open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Shalm Halevi Tel: 08-662-0206 Cell: 057-899-4586

Spokesman for the city of Sderot Yossi Chohen Cell: 057-738-3770

Police Chief Yossi Martziano Tel: 08-662-0444 Fax: 08-662-0410 Cell: 050-545-9427

Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council

Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council Alon Schuster Cell: 054-675-5111

General Manager of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council Eliahu Segel Tel: 08-689-7223 Cell: 054-675-5112

Assistant to Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council Michal Shaban Cell: 054-675-5115

Press liaison for Alon Schuster, Head of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council Naftull Sivan Cell: 054-675-5113

Community Leaders and Social Service Organizations

Trauma expert - works for NATAL (The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War) Local resident, speaks English, Spanish and basic Arabic Yehudit Be Hay Tel:052 521 7855 [email protected]

Community organization dedicated to several different projects in Sderot open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Gvanim Cell: 054-668-9902 (ask for Hen)

Head of social work services in Sderot Aron Poulet Tel: 08-662-0273

Head Psychologist Tima Sagie Tel: 08-662-4000

Head of Sderot's Education Department Miriam Sasi Tel: 08-662-4000

A community project for Russian-speaking residents of Sderot “Sela” Contact Natasha, Cell: 050-795-5051

Russian speaking-resident and head of a social project in Sderot Raneta Shulomov Cell: 054-668-9014

Heads a project that deals with community protection services Dalia Yosef Cell: 054-471-3268

Other Workers in the Area

Restaurant owner Chaim Cohen Tel: 08-689-2450 Cell: 054-637-7790

UIAC Youth project Coordinator (Eng/Spanish) Eddy Tel: 054-764-3246

Police Spokeswoman Merhav Kachish Karen Tel: 050-764-3167 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Homefront Commander Ofer Shushan Tel: 057-815-2196 Erik (Spokesperson) Tel: 057-815-4399

Kiosk owner Sasson Tel: 08-689-7018

Hairdresser Shopan Tel: 08-689-7204, 08-689-4366

Sapir College Simon Tamir Tel: 08-680-2778 Cell: 054-675-5245

Stills photographer Yossi Tel: 052 523 0325

Residents

Arabic Speaker Ofra Dahari Tel: 054-813-5082

Sderot resident Iris Tel: 050-326-0621

Mother of Yael Shushan, child injured by Qassam Mari Ochana Tel: 08-689-9034

Husband was evacuated to the hospital due to Qassam Meir & Yehudit Dahan Tel: 08-689-9074 Cell: 050-882-2973 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com English-Speaking

Ashkelon resident, teacher Ruth Yashin Tel: 052-4802574

Pilipino resident of Sderot home hit by Qassam on May 16, 2007, while at home with children Shareel Ben-David Cell: 054-628-6006

Sderot resident Odelia Ben-Porat Tel: 08-689-0787 Cell: 050-672-8204

Sderot resident Batya Edry Cell: 054-5444-1375

Sderot resident Eliyahu Edry Cell: 054-5444-1376

12-year-old Sderot resident (Has parent's consent) Shoshana Edry Tel: 08-689-2112

Sderot resident Mechi Fendel Cell: 050-741-1670

Sderot resident Noama Hassiboss Cell: 050-288-9983

Sderot resident Jenny Ion Cell: 052-396-2512

12-year-old Sderot resident (Has parent's consent) open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Yael Kfir Tel: 077-331-2875

Sderot resident Dabid Landau Cell: 052-604-6931

Kibbutz Ben-Ami resident (located near northern Gaza border) Ofer Liberman Cell: 050-566-6700

Sderot resident taking refuge from rocket attacks in Jerusalem Hannah Malool Cell: 050-631-6950

Sderot resident David Mamo Tel: 08-661-0481 Cell 050-590-0862

Sderot resident Adina Mestelbaum Tel: 077-932-2221 Cell: 050-412-4467

Sderot resident Atara Orbach Tel: 08-661-2869 Cell: 052-311-5496

Grandmother and Sderot resident, originally from Canada Cherna Rosenberg Cell: 054-220-0606; 077-345-8009 [email protected]

Sderot resident Avraham Sheetrit Tel: 050-791-6701

Sderot resident Yakov Sheetrit Tel: 08-661-1259 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Sderot resident Yael Shushan Tel: 050-396-7380 [email protected]

Sderot resident David Spengelt Tel: 08-661-2960; Cell: 054-205-1984

Sderot resident Reshes Steret Cell: 050-623-6439

Sderot resident Mor Yehudai Cell: 052-620-9029

Russian-Speaking

Historian and journalist Alexander Rieman Cell: 050-562-5571 [email protected]

Assistant to Ashkelon Municipality Spokesperson Gregory Mezin Cell: 050-899-8698

Sderot resident Nicol Alchazon Cell: 052-667-0252

Sderot resident Malcha Alchazov Cell: 054-810-0263

Sderot City Council Elena Biryukova Tel: 08-662-0208 Cell: 054-694-4149 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com French-Speaking

Sderot resident Dina Tel: 054-767-3409

Sderot resident, since 1955 Sister's house was hit by a Qassam rocket on May 16, 2007 Lea Broch Cell: 054-595-5593

Sderot resident Leah Levy Cell: 052-311-5816

Sderot resident Yael Ben-Yaeir Tel: 08-661-2173 Cell: 052-311-4309

Sderot resident Sherry Kalimi Tel: 08-661-2821 Cell: 052-476-1972

Residents From Otef Aza

Nir Am

English and Spanish Speakers Ein Hashlosha and Rami Negbi Tel: 052-325- 0031

Residents Residents Rachti and Ofer Shlomi Saad Rachti - Tel: 08-680-0405 Ofer Shlomi - Cell: 052-393-4582

Nir Oz open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Resident Oded Lifshitz Tel: 054-791-6934

Resident Shlomo Margalit Tel: 054-791-6600

Nirlat Factory Spokesman Avi Shubert Tel.: 08-998-6333 Cell: 052-466-4664

Works at guesthouse Tal Tel: 054-791-6915

Nir Oz Security Representative Cell: 054-791-6800

Nir Oz Secretariat Tel.: 08- 998-3611

Alumim

Alumim Guesthouse Tel: 054-779-2805

Security Sdot Negev (Border Police) Rafi Babian Tel: 050-558-4909

Resident Sarah Jane Tel: 054-779-2769

Resident Stanley Kaye Tel: 08-993-7059

Meir open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Be’eri Tel: 054-791-8079

Spokespeople

Spokesperson for Machoz Darom (IEC) Ilan User

IDF Erez Spokesperson Shadi

Principals and Teachers

Principal of school in Sderot Eli Edri Cell: 052-607-0751

Resident of Sderot, mother of three, special education teacher and therapist Sari Kalimi Tel.: 08-661-2821

Resident of Sderot, mother of three, and special education teacher Adina Mastbaum Tel: 08-932-2221 Cell: 050-753-3363

Principal of school in Sderot Amit Orbach Cell: 054-443-6633

Mother of six and teacher in Sderot Atara Orbach Tel.: 08-661-2869 Cell: 054-443-5588

Principal of a school in Sderot Matin Ovadia Cell: 052-607-0712 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Head of a Sderot kindergarten Shusha Sido Cell: 050-683-1310

Parents of three and teachers at a local school in Sderot Spanglet, Mutti, and Rivka Tel.: 08-684-9964 Cell: 050-865-2991

Schools in Sderot

Gill Neve Eshkol 08- 689-7079

HaRoca Mivtza Sinai St. 08- 689-7285

Maoz Yoseftal 08- 689-7021

Religious School for Science 4 HaDekel st. 08- 661-1133

School for Science 906 kk”l st. 08-689-4317

Shikmim (religious) 10 Cicar Ha Nasi st. Sderot 08- 689-7043

Yesodi HaTora (religious) 120 Moshe Rabeno st. 08- 689-1596

Offices – Border Crossings open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Border Crossings

Allenby Bridge Tel.: 02- 994-3244/375 Fax: 02-994-3394

Sheik Hussenin Tel: 04-609-3410

District Coordination Offices

Abu Dis Tel.: 02-5354548 Fax: 02-5353936

Bet El Tel.: 02-997-7744/323 (Int’l Org.)

Bethlehem Tel.: 02-993-4001 Tel/ Fax: 02-993-4027

Gaza/Erez Public Inquiries: Tel.: 08-674-1480 Fax: 08-674-1601

International Organizations: Tel.: 08-674-1544/406

VIP Office: Tel.: 08-674-1556/ 557 Fax: 08-674-1601

Hebron Tel.: 02-996-4351 Fax: 02-996-2254

Jenin Tel.: 04-640-7305/12 Fax: 04-640-7315 open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Jericho Tel.: 02-994-3893 Fax: 02-994-3305

Jerusalem Outskirts (J’lem Fence) Tel.: 02-970-5006 Fax: 02-970-5004

Nablus Tel.: 02-548-6217/8 Fax: 02-548-6218

Qalqilya Tel.: 09-792-2005 Fax: 09-792-2331

Ramallah Tel.: 02-997-0611 Fax: 02-997-4693

Tulkarem Tel.: 04-658-2882/4/6 Fax: 09-658-2883

Israel Officials in Israel

Senior Foreign Press Coordinator, Israeli Prime Minister's Office (Jerusalem) David Baker Tel: 02-677-3649 Cell: 050-620-5061 [email protected]; www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng

Press Counselor, Embassy of Israel (Washington D.C) David Siegel Tel. (US number): 202-364-5538 www.israelemb.org

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