Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

The story of the Reut Institute has its roots in my personal and professional experiences starting in the mid 1990′s after my military service.

In July 1995, after finishing my service, I was committed to devoting myself to a personal and professional experience I considered important and urgent from the public perspective, as well as an experience that I would be passionate about.

This led me to work with the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF). Initially, I was responsible for coordinating projects of economic cooperation among Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan. Later, in November 1996, I began to coordinate a project, which aimed to prepare the portfolios for negotiations on a Permanent Status Agreement between Israel and the PLO, under the assumption that such negotiations would begin within the following few years.

A central working assumption of the project had been that the Government of Israel was unable to prepare for such negotiations for political and structural reasons. Dozens of experts – former military and foreign service professionals, academics and legal experts – participated in this effort. We covered most of the outstanding issues including Jerusalem, refugees, security, water, holy sites or economics.

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