Uri Savir

Uri Savir (Hebrew: אורי סביר‎; born 7 January 1953) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. He is currently the honorary president of the Shimon Peres Center for Peace and a former peace negotiator and Knesset member.

Uri Savir
Date of birth (1953-01-07) 7 January 1953
Place of birthJerusalem, Israel
Knessets15
Faction represented in Knesset
1999–2001Centre Party
2001New Way

As Director-General of the Foreign Ministry from 1993 and 1996, Savir was Israel’s chief negotiator for the Oslo Accords; he was a member of the Israeli delegation for negotiations with Jordan, as well as head of the delegation for talks with Syria from 1995-1996.

Savir also served as an MK from 1999-2001, representing the Center Party.

He is Founder of YaLa-Young Leaders, a peace movement of Middle Eastern and North African youth who are fostering dialogue and change. and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1999 and 2001.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem in 1953,[1] Savir studied International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he gained a BA. He went on to work as an administrator,[1] and served general manager of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] Between 1993 and 1996 he was the Chief Negotiator of the Oslo Accords. His experience became the basis for his book The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East, published in 1998.

In the 1999 elections he was elected to the Knesset on the Centre Party list. On 6 March 2001 he and two other MKs left the Centre Party to form the New Way faction.[3] On 28 March he resigned from the Knesset, and was replaced by David Magen, who represented the Centre Party. During his time in the Knesset he served on a number of committees, including the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Savir founded the Glocal Forum, a non-profit organization involved in international relations.[4] He is also a director of the Peres Center for Peace.[2]

See also
  1. Uri Savir: Particulars Knesset website
  2. Uri Savir: Public Activities Knesset website
  3. Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website
  4. Michael Allen Fox (2013). Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction. Routledge. p. 229. ISBN 9781134745807.
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