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Gershon Baskin, Ph.D., was the initiator and the person responsible for the secret back channel between Israel and the Hamas that successfully negotiated the release of Israeli abducted soldier Gilead Schalit.

Dr. Baskin is the Israeli Co-Director and founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) - a joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think and “do”-tank located in Jerusalem. Dr. Baskin initiated the founding of IPCRI in 1988 following ten years of work in the field of Jewish-Arab relations within Israel, in Interns for Peace, the Ministry of Education and as Executive Director of the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence (established by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister’s Office).

During the Premiership of the late Yitzhak Rabin, he served as an advisor on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to a secret team of intelligence officers established by Mr. Rabin. Dr. Baskin was a member of the Jerusalem Experts Committee established by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office during the Final Status Negotiations in 2000-2001. Dr. Baskin holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs from University of Greenwich. His dissertation was on Sovereignty and Territory in the Future of Jerusalem, parts of which were published as a book Jerusalem of Peace. He is a member of the steering committee of the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum, a member of the Board of ALLMEP – the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a member of the Editorial Board of the Palestinian Israeli Journal. Dr. Baskin is also a member of the Israeli Council for Peace and Security.

He was a founding chairman of the progressive Synagogue Kehilat Kol Haneshama in Jerusalem where he served as Chairman for three years. He has a regular column in the Jerusalem Post Newspaper, a weekly radio show in Hebrew on All for Peace Radio. Dr. Baskin has been awarded the Histadrut Prize for Peace in 1996, the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute Peace Prize in 2004, the Tribute of Honor and Courage from the World Movement for Democracy in 2004 and the Search for Common Ground Journalist Award for Middle East Journalism in 2005 and 2007 as well as the Ordine Della Stella Della Solidarieta Italiana. Dr. Baskin speaks Hebrew, English and Arabic.

MidEast Advisor's unique added value is the distinctive ability to provide our clients with comprehensive tools for understanding and shaping their business and political surroundings. MidEast Advisor's clients benefit from the extensive network established by Gershon Baskin with current and former senior political and business leaders, diplomats, as well as with other key international figures around the region and the world.

MidEast Advisor's has the capability to understand the complex and enigmatic regional business arena where business, government, politics and media interact. This allows us to serve our clients in overcoming challenges, creating new links and building long lasting business relations.

Strategic Investments

MidEast Advisor's recognizes Israel's and Palestine's innovative, state of the art, technologies and their abilities to not only promote successful businesses globally, but also to advance solutions that would cope with the most difficult challenges the world faces today. For these reasons, MidEast Advisor's is involved in various strategic endeavors in areas such as water related projects, agriculture food security, and renewable energy.

Organizing and arranging special educational tours, meetings and briefings for visiting dignitaries

Subjects dealing with Middle East politics, economics and business, peace process, Israeli and Palestinian societies, international relations and the Middle East

Lecturing to groups in Hebrew and English on Israeli and Palestinian affairs, water issues in the Middle East, regional strategic issues, Israeli-Palestinian peace issues, Israeli and Palestinian society, Jerusalem

Assistance in cross boundary Israeli Palestinian business and trade facilitation

Political Advocacy - helping to put strategies into policy reform and into action