Headshot of Middle East fellow Gilead Sher

Gilead Sher

Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Middle East Peace and Security in Honor of Yitzhak Rabin

Biography

Gilead Sher is the Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Middle East Peace and Security in Honor of Yitzhak Rabin at the Baker Institute. He was chief of staff and policy coordinator to former Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, a senior negotiator with the Palestinians at the Camp David Summit and the Taba talks (1999-2000), and a delegate to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement negotiations under former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Sher also served as a senior fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He was a visiting professor and Israel studies fellow at Georgetown University in 2019, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2016 and a nonresident guest lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

As a reserve colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, Sher served as a company, battalion and brigade commander as well as a deputy armored corps division commander. During his compulsory service, he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Sher authored “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001: Within Reach” (Routledge, 2006) and “The Battle for Home” (Yedioth Aharonot, 2016), and co-edited “Negotiating in Times of Conflict” (ContentoNow, 2016) and “Spoilers and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli-Arab Negotiations” (Indiana University Press, 2019). His forthcoming book “Reflections on Conflict Resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond” (2022) will be published by World Scientific Publishing.

Sher is a senior partner at Gilead Sher & Co. Law Offices. He serves on a number of corporate executive boards and public councils and chairs the executive board of directors of Sapir Academic College, one of Israels largest public colleges.

Contact at gilead@gsher-law.com or +97 252 894 1941.