The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Process
By Shlomo Ben-Ami
Dr. Ben-Ami, Foreign Minister of Israel, 2000-2001 and Minister of Public Security 1999-2000. He was Israel's first Ambassador to Spain, the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Council for Social Planning, and the Chairman of the National Convention of the Israeli Federation of Labor. He served as a member of the Israeli Delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference and the Head of the Israeli team for the Multilateral Peace Talks on Middle Eastern Refugees. He has conducted secret talks with Abu al-'Alaa in Stockholm (The Swedish Channel). Minister Ben-Ami was the Co-Chair of the Committee of the Labor Party on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Knesset Committee for Defense and Foreign Affairs. He received his D. Phil. from St. Anthony's College at Oxford University, and was the Chairman of the History Department at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of the Origins of the Second Republic in Spain (Oxford, 1978), and Fascism From Above (Oxford, 1983). His book on the Middle East peace process is about to be published in Israel.