Itamar Rabinovich

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| office = Ambassador of Israel to the United States

| term_start = 1993

| term_end = 1996

| predecessor = Zalman Shoval

| successor = Eliahu Ben-Elissar

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| birth_date = 8 October 1942

| birth_place = Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

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| alma_mater = Tel Aviv University

| occupation = Professor

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Itamar Rabinovich ({{langx|he|איתמר רבינוביץ}}; born 8 October 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the former president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007). Currently he is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, distinguished global professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Biography

Itamar Rabinovich received a B.A. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.A. from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Academic career

Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University's faculty since 1971, and served as Ettinger Professor of the Contemporary History of the Middle East, chairman of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, director of the [http://www.dayan.org/ Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies], and Dean of Humanities and Rector. He is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007) (following Yoram Dinstein, and succeeded by Zvi Galil).{{cite web |author=Basch_Interactive |url=https://english.tau.ac.il/list_of_presidents |title=Presidents of Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv University |publisher=English.tau.ac.il |date=1980-01-01 |access-date=2020-02-18 |archive-date=2020-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218232028/https://english.tau.ac.il/list_of_presidents |url-status=live }}

Currently he is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University, distinguished global professor at New York University, and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Diplomatic career

He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996.

Published works

= Books =

{{cite book

| isbn = 0-70-651266-9

| title = Syria under the Baʻth, 1963–66

| year = 1972

| publisher = Israel Universities Press

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{{cite book

| isbn = 0-87-855230-8

| author = With Haim Shaked

| title = From June to October: The Middle East between 1967 and 1973

| year = 1978

| publisher = Transaction Books

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/fromjunetooctobe0000unse

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 0-87-855752-0

| author = With Haim Shaked

| title = The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies

| year = 1980

| publisher = Transaction Books

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/middleeastunited0000unse

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 0-80-149313-7

| title = The War for Lebanon, 1970–1985

| year = 1985

| publisher = Cornell University Press

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 978-0-19-506066-9

| title = The Road Not Taken: Early Arab–Israeli Negotiations

| year = 1991

| publisher = Oxford University Press

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 0-69-101023-4

| title = The Brink of Peace: The Israeli–Syrian Negotiations

| year = 1999

| publisher = Princeton University Press

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 0-69-111982-1

| title = Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003

| year = 2004

| publisher = Princeton University Press

| url = https://archive.org/details/wagingpeaceisrae00rabi_0

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 978-0-87-451962-4

| author = With Jehuda Reinharz

| title = Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present

| year = 2008

| publisher = Brandeis University Press

| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780874519624

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 978-0-85-303800-9

| title = The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria

| year = 2008

| publisher = Vallentine Mitchell

}}

{{cite book

| isbn = 978-0-81-572437-7

| title = The Lingering Conflict: Israel, The Arabs, and the Middle East, 1948–2012

| edition = revised

| year = 2013

| publisher = Brookings Institution Press

}}

{{cite book |author=Rabinovitch, Itamar |title=Yitzhak Rabin : soldier, leader, statesman | publisher = Yale University Press |year=2017 }}
Middle Eastern Maze : Israel, the Arabs, and the Region, 1948-2022. Brookings Institution Press. 2022.

=Critical studies of his work=

{{cite journal |author=Shindler, Colin |date=September 2017 |title=Israel's independent introvert |department=Reviews |journal=History Today |volume=67 |issue=9 |pages=104–105}}

Awards and recognition

In 1992, he won the National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category for The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30759|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-22|archive-date=2020-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605121916/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30759|url-status=live}}

He received Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques from France.

Rabinovitch is a member of the American Philosophical Society{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Itamar+Rabinovich&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-08-20|website=search.amphilsoc.org|archive-date=2021-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016141842/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Itamar+Rabinovich&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|url-status=live}} and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web|title=Itamar Rabinovich|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/itamar-rabinovich|access-date=2021-08-20|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|archive-date=2020-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327043629/https://www.amacad.org/person/itamar-rabinovich|url-status=live}} He has been awarded the Honorary Grand Golden Cross of the Austrian Republic.{{Cite web|date=2015-07-22|title=Itamar Rabinovich|url=https://www.brookings.edu/experts/itamar-rabinovich/|access-date=2021-08-20|website=Brookings|language=en-US|archive-date=2016-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929142730/https://www.brookings.edu/experts/itamar-rabinovich/|url-status=live}}

References

External links

{{cite web |url=http://www.israelinstitute.org/leadership |publisher=Israel Institute |title=Leadership}} Includes bio of Itamar Rabinovich.
{{cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/experts/rabinovichi |publisher=Brookings |title=Itamar Rabinovich|date=22 July 2015 }} Bio, papers, events.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705055204/http://www.israelemb.org/bios/rabinovich/rabinovich_speeches.html Rabinovich speeches]- an official page on the Israeli Embassy website.
[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Rabinovich.html Itamar Rabinovich], Jewish Virtual Library.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308084628/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/itamar-rabinovich Itamar Rabinovich] Kennedy School of Government.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090719221833/http://as.nyu.edu/object/aboutas.globalprofessor.ItamarRabinovich Itamar Rabinovich], NYU Arts & Science.
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{{cite news |author=Guy Leshem |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1454645 |script-title=he:מחטף אקדמי |trans-title=Academic grab |newspaper=Haaretz |language=he |date=November 2, 2007}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080622065848/http://www.kensteintribute.com/Rabinovich.htm Itamar Rabinovich], another mini-bio.
{{Cite news

| last = Rabinovich

| first = Itamar

| title = What will happen after Bush?

| work = Haaretz

| access-date = 2009-03-20

| date = 2007-11-15

| url = http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/what-will-happen-after-bush-1.232107

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