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 “The Lachish Story”, a film from the Steven Spielberg Archive at Hebrew University. The film shows Moroccan immigrants’ journey from France to Israel in the early years of statehood, and the adjustment of one family to life in a moshav in the Lachish region.