Yossi Alpher

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Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues, and is co-editor, with Ghassan Khatib (ex-minister of labour in the Palestinian Authority) of Bitterlemons, a web-based Israeli-Palestinian political dialogue magazine, bitterlemons-international.org, a web-based “Middle East round table", and bitterlemons-dialogue.org. He also writes Hard Questions, Tough Answers, a weekly security Q&A available at peacenow.org and a monthly column for Forward, called the Strategic Interest.

Alpher served in the Israel Defense Force as an intelligence officer, followed by 12 years’ service in Mossad. From 1981 to 1995 he was associated with the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, filling the posts of deputy head of centre, director and acting head. From 1995 to 2000 he served as director of the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East office in Jerusalem. While at the Jaffee Centre, 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. Since 1992 he has coordinated several track II dialogues between Israelis and Arabs. In July 2000 (during the Camp David talks) he served as senior adviser to the prime minister of Israel, concentrating on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In 2002 he published And the Wolf Shall Dwell with the Wolf: the Settlers and the Palestinians (HaKibbutz Hameuchad, Hebrew).

He is married to Irene Tamar Alpher. They have three children and four grandchildren. They live in Ramat HaSharon, north of Tel Aviv.

In April 2008, Alpher signed a letter of support for the recently created J Street American pro-peace lobby group.^[1]