Gidi Grinstein founded the Reut Institute in January 2004 and currently serves as its President. He served as Secretary and Coordinator of the Israeli negotiation team on the Permanent Status Agreement between Israel and the PLO in the Office and later in the Bureau of Prime Minister Ehud Barak (1999-2001).
Daphna Kaufman is the Reut Institute’s Director of Policy and Strategy. Daphna led Reut’s taskforce on 21st Century Tikkun Olam. She held previous positions at AIPAC and at The Israel Project.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.