EIPA Press Briefing, 25 June 2020
‘Annexation, is this the question?’
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Dr. MICAH GOODMAN is an Israeli-American philosopher, a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is a leading voice on Judaism, Zionism and the challenges and opportunities facing Israel and contemporary world Jewry. One of Liberal Magazine’s 100 most influential Israelis in 2019, he is the author of five Israeli bestsellers, including Catch-67 that has driven a national discussion in Israel for months. He is also the director of Ein Prat, a pluralistic center of Jewish studies. In 2014, he received the Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance for his work and writings.
Dr. ERAN LERMAN is the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). A leading expert on Israel’s foreign relations and the Middle East, he was deputy director for foreign policy and international affairs at the National Security Council in the Prime Minister’s Office. He held senior positions within IDF Military Intelligence for over 20 years. He also served for eight years as director of the Israel and Middle East office of the American Jewish Committee. He teaches Middle East studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem, in post-graduate programs at Tel Aviv University and the National Defense College. A third-generation Sabra, he holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and a mid-career MPA from Harvard University.
PROF. AVI BELL is a leading international law expert, a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar Ilan University and the University of the San Diego School of Law. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum. His fields of expertise include international law, land use law, the laws of war, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His papers have been published in leading international law journals including Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Columbia Law Review. Bell holds a doctorate from Harvard University and has served as a visiting professor at the law schools of Fordham University and the University of Connecticut.
- Dr. MICAH GOODMAN is an Israeli-American philosopher, a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute
- Dr. ERAN LERMAN is the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS).
- PROF. AVI BELL, leading international law expert, a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar Ilan University and the University of the San Diego School of Law.
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