Menachem Klein

Prof. Menachem Klein is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Prof. Klein studied Middle East and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in 1992-3 and 2001-2 was a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. In 2006 he was a visiting professor in MIT, and in 2010 he is Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the European University Institute, Florence. In 2011 Prof. Klein was a visiting scholar in Leiden University, Holland.

In 2000 Prof. Klein was an adviser for Jerusalem Affairs and Israel-PLO Final Status Talks to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. S. Ben-Ami, and a member of advisory team operating in the office of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Since 1996 he is active in many unofficial negotiations with Palestinian counterparts. In October 2003 Prof. Klein signed together with prominent Israeli and Palestinian negotiators the Geneva Agreement – a detailed proposal for a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

He is Senior Fellow in Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and board member of Palestine – Israel Journal. Previously he was board member of B’etselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

His book is Lives in Common – Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron, Oxford University Press NY and C. Hurst London 2014 awarded by the New Republic as one of best 2014 non-fiction books.

Klein's English articles include among others: “Hamas in Power”, Middle East Journal, Summer 2007, pp. 442-59; Old and New Walls in Jerusalem”, Political Geography, Vol. 24 (January 2005) pp. 53-76; “Jerusalem without East Jerusalemites – The Palestinian as the ‘Other’ in Jerusalem”, The Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 23 (Autumn 2004) pp. 174-199; and “The Palestinian 1948 Refugees – Models of Allowed and Refused Return”, in Michael Dumper (ed.), Palestinian Refugee Repatriation in Global Perspective, London: Routledge, pp. 87-106; “The Negotiations for the Settlement of the 1948 Refugees”, in E. Benvenisti, C. Gans and S. Hanafi (eds.), Israel and the Palestinian Refugees, Springer, Berlin 2007, pp. 465-492.