Moshe Amirav

Moshe Amirav was born in 1945 in Israel

Moshe Amirav was born on October 1, 1945, and grew up in Netanya in a Revisionist family. He was a Betar instructor and later an emissary of the movement abroad.

He earned a bachelor's degree in Jewish history and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a master's in public administration from New York University and a doctorate in political geography from the London School of Economics.

He served in the Paratroopers Brigade and was wounded in the battle for Jerusalem in the Six-Day War. While in the hospital he wrote "Story of a Paratrooper," which became part of school study material.

He chaired the National Union of Israeli Students in 1970 and 1971, was spokesman of the Broadcasting Authority from 1976 to 1981, and headed the National Road Safety Authority from 1981 to 1986. In 1987 he held secret talks with Faisal Husseini and drafted a peace plan, and after a Herut movement court stripped him of his posts he left the Likud. From 1989 to 1993 he was a Jerusalem city council member in charge of engineering and transport, and in 2000 and 2001 he advised Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Jerusalem.

He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He founded the Center for Strategic Dialogue at Netanya College in 2001 and the School of Society and Government at Beit Berl College in 2007, and published the book "Jerusalem Syndrome" in 2009.