The Yona and Dina Ettinger Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University. Chair, Dan David Foundation

Prof. Itamar Rabinovich is the president of the Dan David Foundation. He is a former president of Tel Aviv University and a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern History. In the mid-nineties, he was Israel’s ambassador to Washington and chief negotiator with Syria. He is Vice-chair of the Institute of National Security Studies, affiliated with Tel Aviv University. He is a distinguished Foreign Policy Fellow at The Brookings Institute and a Fellow of The American Philosophical Society and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest books are Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman (Yale University Press, 2016) and Syrian Requiem (co-authored), Princeton University Press, 2021.