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Fellow:
The Foundation has set up the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Saban Center. Itamar Rabinovich is the Visiting Fellow for 2006-2007. He is also the incumbent of the Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University and has recently completed an eight-year term as the University's President. He has been a member of Tel Aviv University faculty since 1971 and served as Chairman of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and Dean of Humanities and Rector.
Between 1992 and 1996, Professor Rabinovich was on leave from Tel Aviv University to serve as Israel's Ambassador to the United States and as Chief Negotiator with Syria under the Yitzhak Rabin government. Over the years, Professor Rabinovich has held visiting appointments at Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Harvard, and New York University. He has authored five books on the Modern History and Politics of the Middle East and numerous articles in leading professional journals. He most recently wrote The Brink of Peace and Waging Peace (Princeton University Press) and will soon publish The View from Damascus in the spring of 2008. Professor Rabinovich received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
