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{{Short description|Israeli political scientist}}
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[[File:MOSHEAMIRV.jpg|thumb|MOSHE AMIRAV]]
'''Moshe Amirav''' ({{Langx|he|משה עמירב}}) is an expert on the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict#Jerusalem|conflict in Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite journal |last= Moshe |first= Amirav |author2=Hanna Siniora| title= Jerusalem: Resolving the Unresolvable |journal= The International Spectator |year=1992|volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=3–23|doi=10.1080/03932729208457977}}</ref> He is a frequent lecturer at international conferences and forums on Jerusalem and has authored six books and many articles on this subject.<ref name = jerusalem_syndrome>{{cite book |title = Jerusalem Syndrome: The Palestinian-Israeli Battle for the Holy City|first1 = Moshe|last1 = Amirav|publisher = Sussex Academic Press|date = 2009|accessdate = June 3, 2015|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DA4-XPy-6hIC&q=Moshe+Amirav+Jerusalem+Syndrome|isbn = 9781845193478}}</ref>

==Overview==
Amirav is a professor of Political Science at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] and an expert on the Jerusalem political conflict.<ref>{{cite journal|journal = The Jerusalem Rotary Club Weekly Bulletin|date = August 21, 2011|accessdate = June 3, 2015|url = http://www.jerusalemrotaryclub.org/31-08-2011.pdf|title = Prof. Moshe Amirav, Hebrew University: Jerusalem – the Cornerstone for Peace|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071948/http://www.jerusalemrotaryclub.org/31-08-2011.pdf|archive-date = March 4, 2016|url-status = dead}}</ref> During the [[Six-Day War]] he served as a paratrooper and was wounded in the [[battle for Jerusalem]] on the day Israel captured the Old City, June 7, 1967. In the years 1981–1993, he worked closely with then Mayor of Jerusalem, [[Teddy Kollek]], in charge of planning and development. In 2001 as advisor to Prime Minister [[Ehud Barak]] during the [[2000 Camp David Summit|Camp David negotiations]], Amirav headed a committee of experts who prepared blueprints for a political settlement in Jerusalem. The model is an open city when the Arab part will be the [[capital of Palestine]] and the Jewish part capital of Israel, [[Temple Mount]] with no sovereignty.

==Political activity==

Amirav was involved in the political arena for many years. In 1987 he was the first to initiate negotiations with the P.L.O. [[Faisal Husseini]], then leader of the Palestinians in Jerusalem with whom he prepared a plan for a confederative political settlement between Jordan, Palestine and Israel.<ref>{{cite journal|journal = Middle East Journal|date = Spring 2020|accessdate = July 7, 2020|url = https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei/2020/00000074/00000001/art00005|title = The Road Not Taken: The Amirav-Husayni Peace Initiative of 1987|last=Lehrs|first=Lior| volume=74 | pages=72–92 | doi=10.3751/74.1.14 | s2cid=219656438 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> That year, the president of Romania, [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]], invited [[Yitzhak Shamir]] and [[Yasser Arafat]], to Romania for the first peace conference between the Israelis and Palestinians, on the bases of "The Amirav Husseini Plan". Prime Minister Shamir refused and Husseini was imprisoned. Amirav left the Likud party. His leave certainly had great impact at the time in Israel and abroad.
In 1988 he established the "Semitic Confederation Movement" which included Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians, academics, retired ex-Israeli generals and other public figures. He then initiated the first public peace conference between Israeli and P.L.O. personalities. This took place under the auspices of the Belgium government in Brussels. In 1989 he organized at Stanford University the meeting of top position Israelis and P.L.O. They signed the first peace agreement. Amirav is considered in Israel as the first barrier breaker with the Palestinians.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

==Jerusalem Syndrome==
Amirav's book, "[[Jerusalem Syndrome]]: The Palestinian-Israeli Battle for the Holy City" was published by Sussex Academic Press in June 2009.<ref name = jerusalem_syndrome/>

The book analyzes how Israel has failed in its attempts to unify the city, and presents the argument that Israel should relinquish its claim on Palestinian neighborhoods and villages incorporated in 1967. Amirav suggests a unique and creative idea for a solution in Jerusalem: The Old City will be considered as a special zone neither Palestinian nor an Israeli sovereignty and will be run by a special regime.<ref name="JP1">{{cite news|url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1178708610154&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull|title=Analysis: Still no vision for Jerusalem|last=Pfeffer|first=Anshel|date=May 16, 2007|work=The Jerusalem Post|accessdate=2009-01-03}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Documentary==
In 2007, his son, Nathanel Goldman Amirav, released a documentary about his father's employee, an undocumented Palestinian worker who "sneaks across the border from [[East Jerusalem]] to come to work every day." Goldman Amirav called the documentary ''My Father's Palestinian Slave''.<ref>[https://sfjff.org/year-round/jfi-on-demand/my-fathers-palestinian-slave My Father's Palestinian Slave]</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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* Joel Greenberg, [http://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0925/owest.html "Israeli Likud member, Palestinians propose West Bank self-rule"], [[The Christian Science Monitor]], September 25, 1987.

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