Yitzhak Reiter

Yitzhak Reiter (born 5 September 1952) is an Israelii political scientist who is full professor of Islamic, Middle East and Israel Studies serving as the Head of Research Authority and Chair of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College. He is also a senior researcher at both the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as Editor-In-Chief of Israel Academic Press. 

Reiter was born in Rehovot, Israel to Holocaust survivors, his mother from Paszto, Hungary and his father from Leipzig, Germany. During 1965-1968 he was educated at Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, and in November 1970 he joined the IDF in the Intelligence Corp. He was wounded in the 1973 War on the Egyptian front. He was trained in Islamic civilization, Arabic and Islamic and Middle East studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from where he graduated with a doctorate, with his thesis specializing on the Islamic Waqf.

After four years of work at the L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art working in numismatics, Reiter was recruited to the civil service and during 1978-1987 served as deputy advisor on Arab Affairs for three Israeli Prime Ministers -- Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres. He also worked as an administrative director of Al-Anba, the Israeli Arabic daily newspaper, from 1982-83. He co-founded with Shaul Mishal, the Institute for Israeli Arab Studies at Beit Berl College serving as its director. During 1993-1995 he was nominated by the Israeli government as Chairman of the Public Committee for the Integration of Arabs within the Civil Service. In 2007 he also contributed to forming the Israel's Academy for the Arabic Language (Majma` al-Lugha al-Arabiyya).

Reiter taught at the Hebrew University in Islamic Studies from 1988-2003 and Conflict Resolution from 2005-2011. He also taught at Haifa University in 2004/5; IDC in 2005-6 and in 2017.  During 2008-2009 he was a Schusterman Fellow teaching at the University of Minnesota in the departments of Political Science and Jewish Studies. Reiter was also a visiting scholar at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University during 2001, The Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. in 2003 and Sydney University during 2003-2004. Reiter also taught in Arabic between 2014-2016 at Al-Qasemi College, Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Israel.

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