Events

The lunch was co-sponsored by Meretz USA, Ameinu, and Brit Tzedek v'Shalom.

About Daniel Levy:
For over two years Daniel Levy led the working-level Israeli negotiating team in creating, with Palestinian colleagues, the Geneva Accord. He is actively involved in speaking and publishing on, as well as promoting the plan. Levy worked as senior policy adviser to Israeli ex-Minister and Meretz/Yachad party head Yossi Beilin. Levy was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in January 2001, and previously served on the negotiating team to the ‘Oslo B’ Agreement from May to September 1995, under late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. He worked for three years as Projects Director for the Tel Aviv based NGO - the Economic Cooperation Foundation – a policy ‘think-tank and do-tank’ whose mission is to promote regional peace and stability in the Middle East. He is now directing policy planning and international efforts at the Geneva Campaign Headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Co-Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at the New School and Ameinu, at the New School.

Speakers:
Dr. Ruti Ben-Artzi, post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania; Amjad Atallah, founder and President of Strategic Assessments Initiative (SAI) and former advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and then-Prime Minister Abbas' office; Dr. Stephen P. Cohen founder of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and National Scholar of the Israel Policy Forum; Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal, professor of education at Tel Aviv University; Moderated by Samuel Norich, Publisher of the Forward and Executive Director of the Forward Association.

On May 1, 2006, MK Colette Avital spoke at Beit Shalom to a select group of Ameinu and Meretz Board members. MK Avital, one of the most distinguished diplomats in the Israeli foreign service, has been Ambassador to Portugal and Consul General of New York. Twelfth on the Labor Party list, MK Avital will be part of the next governing coalition. Currently, she chairs the Ethics Committee and the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Location and Restitution of Property of Holocaust Victims. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, New York Post and the Forward. She has also recently started with Abu Vilan the One Home or “Bait Echad” campaign, which aims to compensate Israeli settlers who voluntarily move back behind the pre-1967 borders.

Click for a summary of her remarks.