Jewish People Policy Institute

Jewish People Policy Planning Institute is a think tank established by the Jewish Agency, based in Jerusalem.

Dennis Ross, who serves on Obama's National Security Council, was the chairman of its board.

People

Board of Directors

• Dennis Ross - former chairman of the board, who sits on Obama's National Security Council
• Stuart Eizenstat - current chairman of the board of directors,
• Irwin Cotler - board member
• Leonid Nevzlin
• Sami Friedrich
• Dan Halperin
• David Hatchwell Altaras
• Stephen H. Hoffman
• Alan Hoffmann
• Rabbi Vernon Kurtz
• Morlie Levin
• Glen Lewy
• Judit Bokser Liwerant
• Isaac Molho
• Steven B. Nasatir
• Avi Pazner
• Jehuda Reinharz
• John Ruskay
• Doron Shorrer
• Gerrald Silverman - Gerrald (Jerry) Silverman
• Ted Sokolsky
• Alan Solow - former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations
• Michael H. Steinhardt - co-founder of Birthright Israel
• Aharon Yadlin

Fellows

• Avinoam Bar-Yosef, President and Founding Director - previously of Ma'ariv newspaper and Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Jewish Agency Sallai Meridor..
• Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Founding President - Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Club of Rome, he served as a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, Senior Advisor in the Offices of Israeli Prime Ministers and Ministers of Defense; Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and Science Center; and senior professor at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht.
• Prof. Suzanne Last Stone, Academic Counselor - also a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center and Designated Chair, Department of Liberal Studies, at Shalem College
• Ita Alcalay, Project Manager - previously worked at the Finance Minister's Bureau and the Foreign Ministry.
• Ambassador Avi Gil, Senior Fellow - formerly Director General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Director-General of the Peres Center for Peace; the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Media Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and was involved in negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords and the peace treaty with Jordan. Also a 'close advisor to President Shimon Peres'
• Brig. Gen. (Res.) Michael Herzog, Senior Fellow - heads JPPI's confronting de-legitimization project. Former head of the IDF's strategic planning division, held senior positions in the office of Israel's minister of defense and was the chief of staff of Minister Ehud Barak. Son of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel, he is also the Milton Fine International [Military] Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
• Dov Maimon, Senior Fellow - working on a 'Grand Strategy of the Jewish People toward Islam' and leads the Institute's activities in Europe.
• Prof. Steven Popper, Senior Fellow - a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation and Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is also director of RAND's Israel Initiative. He has carried out research for the OECD, the World Bank, several non-US governments and the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, including 'evaluations of federal R&D portfolios relevant to the Global War on Terror'.
• Dr. Shalom Salomon Wald, Senior Fellow - worked at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 1964 and 2001 and was Head of the OECD/DSTI Biotechnology Unit. Joined JPPI in 2002 and worked on Jewish/Israeli relations with China, among other topics. Currently studying 'India-Israel-Jewish People links'.
• Jonathan D. Sarna, Senior Fellow - Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University.
• Dr. Shlomo Fischer, Fellow - sociologist at Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Also a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute. He has published extensively on radical religious Zionism and the West Bank settlers as well as on the Shas movement.
• Shmuel Rosner, Fellow - author, columnist and Senior Political Editor for the Jewish Journal, writes weekly for The International Herald Tribune, New York Times and for Israel’s Maariv Daily. Previously a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and Chief U.S. Correspondent for Haaretz. Has also written for Foreign Policy and Commentary.
• Antony Korenstein, Fellow - formerly of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
• Inbal Hakman, Fellow - Ph.D. student at the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and teaching assistant at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.
• Arielle Kandel, Fellow - Joined JPPI in 2012, works on the research project led by Dr. Solomon Wald focused on relations between India, Israel and the Jewish people.
• Dr. Gedaliah Afterman, Fellow - former policy analyst for the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in Melbourne, Political Correspondent for the Australian Jewish News and has worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
• Rami Tal, Publications Editor - former news editor and Washington correspondent at Yediot Acharonot newspaper.
• Nadia Ellis, Associate Fellow - Works on JPPI's delegitimization of Israel project, especially on university campuses and writing a Ph.D. about the use of the word 'delegitimization' in political discourse at Tel Aviv University.
• Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Mirsky, Fellow - worked as an aide to Senators Bob Kerrey and Al Gore and served in the Clinton Administration as a Presidential appointee in the US State Department's human rights bureau. Has written on politics, culture and religion for The Economist, New Republic, Washington Post and many other publications. Also a fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
• Yogev Karasenty, Fellow - founder and board member of 'several initiatives aiming to promote Israel Diaspora discourse' lecturer on Jewish sociological and demographical trends. Co-writer of the new paradigm for Israel Diaspora relationships (commissioned by the Israeli Government).
• General Aharon Ze'evi Farkash

Contact

• Address: Givat Ram Campus, Hebrew University, P.O.Box 39156, Jerusalem 91391
• Tel: 972-2-5633356
• Fax: 972-2-5635040
• Website: http://jppi.org.il
• Email: info@jppi.org.il