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Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues. Alpher also serves on the executive committee of the Council for Peace and Security .1In the past Alpher served in the Israel Defense Forces as an Intelligence officer, followed by 12 years in the Mossad . From 1981 to 1995 he was associated with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS) at Tel Aviv University , ultimately serving as director of the center. While at the Jaffee Center, Alpher coordinated and coedited the JCSS research project on options for a Palestinian settlement, and produced "The Alpher Plan" for an Israeli-Palestinian territorial settlement. From 1995 to 2000 he served as director of the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East Office in Jerusalem. Since 1992 he has coordinated several track II dialogues between Israelis and Arabs. In July 2000 (during the Camp David talks) Alpher served as Special Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak , concentrating on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Alpher writes Hard Questions, Tough Answers , a weekly security Q&A for Peace Now, and The Strategic Interest, a monthly column for The Forward , for which he won the 2009 American Jewish Press Association Simon Rockower first place award for excellence in commentary. In 2001 he wrote And The Wolf Shall Dwell With The Wolf: the Settlers and the Palestinians (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Hebrew).2
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Yossi (Joseph) Alpher ( ) is an Israeli consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues. Alpher also serves on the executive committee of the Council for Peace and Security.
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Yossi (Joseph) Alpher ( ) is an Israeli columnist and writer on Israel-related Middle East strategic issues.Alpher is best known as the author of the prize winning Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies , as well as coeditor of Bitterlemons in collaboration with Ghassan Khatib , a former vice president of Bir Zeit University .In recent years, Alpher has been extensively interviewed in documentaries about the Mossad .
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Yossi (Joseph) Alpher ( ) is an Israeli columnist and writer on Israel-related Middle East strategic issues. Alpher is best known as the author of the prize winning Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies , as well as coeditor of Bitterlemons in collaboration with Ghassan Khatib , a former vice president of Bir Zeit University . In recent years, Alpher has been extensively interviewed in documentaries about the Mossad .
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Israeli writer ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Yossi (Joseph) Alpher ( Hebrew : יוסי אלפר ) is an Israeli columnist and writer on Israel-related Middle East strategic issues. Alpher is best known as the author of the prize winning Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies , as well as coeditor of Bitterlemons in collaboration with Ghassan Khatib , a former vice president of Bir Zeit University . In recent years, Alpher has been extensively interviewed in documentaries about the Mossad .
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consultant and writer on israel-related strategic issues
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israeli columnist and writer on israel-related middle east strategic issues
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