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    Yair Hirschfeld

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    Yair Hirschfeld is the Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Middle East Peace and Security in Honor of Yitzhak Rabin at the Baker Institute. Hirschfeld is currently teaching at the University of Haifa in the Department of Middle Eastern History. Hirschfeld was a member of the Israeli team that prepared the first Israeli-Palestinian blueprint for the Permanent Status Agreement. He is also the director general of the Tel Aviv-based Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF).

     

    Yair Hirschfeld's articles

    Ten ways the Palestinians failed to move toward a state during Oslo: Yair Hirschfeld's critique of Seth Anziska's Preventing Palestine

    By Yair Hirschfeld
    Yair Hirschfeld was one of the two original architects of the Oslo accords. In this extended critical review... Read more > June 2019

    Oslo25 | Israel and the Middle East after Oslo: Hope or despair?

    By Yair Hirschfeld
    Yair Hirschfeld was one of two Israeli academics (alongside the late Ron Pundak) who began unofficial and secret... Read more > September 2018

    ‘The assumption that a conflict of over 100 years can be solved by a piece of paper is totally detached...

    By Yair Hirschfeld
    As the play Oslo opens in London, Fathom’s Calev Ben-Dor sat down with Yair Hirschfeld who was, with... Read more > Autumn 2017

    Learning the Lessons of the Oslo Peace Process

    By Yair Hirschfeld
    Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords and is now the Director General of the Economic... Read more > Spring 2016

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