Ehud Eiran is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University and a fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Ehud Eiran has held various positions in the Israeli civil service.  He has served as personal legal clerk for two Israeli Attorneys General and as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak.  In his last post in the Prime Minister’s office, he worked on Israeli-US relations and the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations.

Ehud has been a featured guest on national media programs such The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) and On Point with Tom Ashbrook (NPR). Mr. Eiran holds degrees in Political Science and Law from Tel Aviv University and an MA in International Relations from Cambridge University.  As a volunteer, he has worked with an Israeli youth movement and with the Israeli Center for Psychological Support for Holocaust Survivors.  He holds the rank of Major (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces.

Topics:

• US-Israel Relations: Historical, Sociological, and Security Dimensions
• Israeli Law: Human Rights, the Constitution, the Separation of Church and State
• Israeli Security Policies
• Israeli History and Society
• Influences on Israeli Identity: Immigration, Jewish Tradition, Democracy, the Holocaust, and Israeli Arabs
• Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and Conflict