Ron Pundak
Ron Pundak ( he, רון פונדק; 14 May 1955 – 11 April 2014) was an Israeli historian and journalist. He played an important role in starting the Oslo peace process in 1993, and was part of the core group behind the Geneva Initiative. Pundak was the executive director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Yafo and co-chairman of its Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum. He was on the board of directors of the Aix Group. Background Ron Pundak was born in Tel Aviv. His parents are Danish Jewish immigrants from Denmark. He was the son of Herbert Pundik, a Danish-Israeli journalist and author. In 1991 Pundak graduated from the University of London with a PhD in Middle Eastern Political History. Career After his return to Israel, he worked as a journalist at the Israeli daily newspaper ''Ha'aretz'' for one year. Together with fellow academic Yair Hirschfeld Prof. Yair Hirschfeld is an Israeli lecturer at the University of Haifa. Prof. Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Os ...
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Oslo Peace Process
The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993;''Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements''
(DOP), 13 September 1993. From the Knesset website and the , signed in , in 1995. They marked the start of the Oslo process, a