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Yitzhak Reiter

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Yitzhak Reiter
Portrait of Yitzhak Reiter
NationalityIsraeli
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsReichman University
Al-Qasemi College
Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research
Thesisהווקף המוסלמי בירושלים בתקופת המנדט כפי שהוא משתקף מרשומות (סג'ל) בית-הדין השרעי (1990)

Yitzhak Reiter is an Israeli political scientist. He is a professor specializing in Israel studies and Islamic and Middle East history and politics, teaching at Reichman University and Al-Qasemi College. A senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, he formerly chaired the Department of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College.[1][2]

Books

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  • Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine: Sharing and Conflict Resolution (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).
  • The Eroding Status Quo: Conflict over Controlling the Temple Mount (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and Multieducator 2017.
  • Feminism in the Temple: The Struggle of the Women of the Wall to Change the Status Quo (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies 2017, in Hebrew)
  • Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery. Brighton, Chicago, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press and The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2014 (also in Hebrew and Arabic editions).
  • A City with a Mosque in Its Heart (with Lior Lehrs, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2013, in Hebrew.
  • War, Peace and International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel (Brighton, Portland and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2011 also in Hebrew and Arabic editions)
  • The Sheikh Jarrah Affair: Strategic Implications of Jewish Settlement in an Arab Neighborhood in East Jerusalem (with Lior Lehrs, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2010).
  • National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs versus Jews in Israel (Syracuse University Press, 2009)
  • Jerusalem and its Role in Islamic Solidarity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
  • Islamic Institutions in Jerusalem: Palestinian Muslim Administration under Jordanian and Israeli Rule. The Hague, London and Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997).
  • Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem under British Mandate. London and Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1996).
  • The Political Life of Arabs in Israel. (with Reuben Aharoni, Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, first ed. 1992, second revised ed. 1993, in Hebrew).
  • Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem 1948-1990. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1991. [Hebrew].

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  • The Arab Society in Israel (with Orna Cohen, Neve Ilan: Abraham Fund Initiatives, 2013, in Hebrew).
  • Religion and Politics: Sacred Space in Palestine and Israel (with Breger, M. J., and Hammer L., London and New York: Routledge, 2012).
  • Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-existence (with Breger, M. J., and Hammer L., London and New York: Routledge, 2009.)
  • Dilemmas in Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel (Tel-Aviv: Schocken, 2005, in Hebrew).
  • Sovereignty of God and Man: Sanctity and Political Centrality on the Temple Mount (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2001 in Hebrew).

References

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  1. ^ "Ramadan powder keg: The Temple Mount in the eye of the storm - opinion". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2024-03-26. Retrieved 2024-04-03. Yitzhak Reiter is a professor of Islam, Middle East history and politics, and Israel Studies at Reichman University and Al-Qasemi College. Reiter is also the president of MEISAI, The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel.
  2. ^ "צוות – מכון ירושלים למחקרי מדיניות". Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research. Retrieved 2024-04-03.