Uri Savir
Uri Savir | |
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Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1999–2001 | Centre Party |
2001 | New Way |
Personal details | |
Born | Jerusalem, Israel | 7 January 1953
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 Member of Knesset (MK).
As Director-General of the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 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 was elected to the Knesset 1999-2001, as am MK from the Centre Party.
He is Founder of YaLa-Young Leaders, a peace movement of Middle Eastern and North African youth who are fostering dialogue and change.
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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Uri Savir: Particulars Knesset website
- ^ Jump up to: a b Uri Savir: Public Activities Knesset website
- ^ Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups Knesset website
- ^ Michael Allen Fox (2013). Understanding Peace: A Comprehensive Introduction. Routledge. p. 229. ISBN 9781134745807.
External links[]
- Uri Savir on the Knesset website
- Glocal forum
- 1953 births
- Living people
- People from Jerusalem
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni
- Ambassadors of Israel to Eritrea
- Centre Party (Israel) politicians
- New Way (Israel) politicians
- Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003)