Senior Advisors

Efraim Halevy

Mr. Halevy was born in London , U.K., in 1934. He received his high school education at the Grocers’ Company School in London. He emigrated to Palestine in 1948 and entered the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1952.

Mr. Halevy graduated with a Master of Laws cum laude in 1956. He was president of the National Union of Israeli Students 1955- 1957; he entered the Mossad in 1961, and was promoted to deputy division chief and member of the governing body of the Mossad in 1967; he served as a member of the body till 1995 for twenty-eight and a half years.

He served in the Israel Embassy in Washington. D.C., 1970-1974 and in the Israel Embassy in Paris , 1976-1979.

Mr. Halevy commanded three divisions as division chief for three five-year periods between 1980-1995. He served as deputy Head of the Mossad, 1990-1995, as Israeli Ambassador to the European Union, 1996-1998, as head of the Mossad, 1998-2002, and as head of the National Security Council and National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2002-2003

Since 2004, Mr. Halevy as served as head of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Business and Public Affairs Activities:

Director, Board Member, Makhteshim Agan, 2003-2006

Fellow Portland Trust, 2004- ( founded and chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen , founder of Apax and its CEO till 2006 )

Participant and member of the Middle East and International Advisory Fora – Bertelsmann Foundation – Federal Republic of Germany , 2005- Special Advisor, Quest Ltd., London (chaired by Lord Stevens, former Commissioner London Metropolitan Police)

Member International Advisory Board, Athlone Global Security, Canada , 2005

- Recently published a book “Man in the Shadows – Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man who led the Mossad,” (St. Martins), 2006



General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

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Can Kerry Rescue a Two-State Peace Accord?

If the purpose of President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel was to dispel the view held by most Israelis, and by rightwing American Jewish supporters of AIPAC and the Likud’s annexationist policies, that he is hostile to Israel and to the Zionist enterprise, it must be judged a brilliant success. Not everyone was converted, but his words and personal charm seemed to have worked wonders on most Israelis.
While his visit was not expected to revive prospects for a two-state solution, he spoke far more directly and energetically about the need for an end to Israel’s occupation and about his own continuing efforts to help the parties achieve an agreement than his recent disengagement from the peace process prepared anyone for. But nothing he said in Jerusalem or Ramallah–and, more importantly, that he failed to say–justifies an expectation that his reengagement will be of a kind that has any chance of preventing Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from finally nailing down the coffin in which they are burying a viable two-state outcome.

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