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'''Yitzhak Reiter''' (born 5 September<!--or 9 May--> 1952) is a 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 [http://en.jerusaleminstitute.org.il/ 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''.
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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)|Givat Haim Meuhad]], and in November 1970 he joined the IDF in the Intelligence Corp and was severely 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, he was recruited to the civil service and during 1978-1987 he 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. Following his studies, he co-founded with [[Shaul Mishal|Professor 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 (''[[האקדמיה ללשון הערבית|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 currently 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. Professor 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.
Professor Reiter is an expert on conflict resolution in holy places, the Arab minority in Israel, Middle East and Israel politics and Islamic law. He is active in Jewish-Arab dialogue and track two discussions between Israelis and Palestinians.
==Books==▼
* ''The Eroding Status-Quo: Power Struggles on the Temple Mount''. Mamaroneck: The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research and Multieducator, 2017▼
=== Research ===
* ''Jerusalem and its Role in Islamic Solidarity''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.▼
Having been trained in Islamic classical sources Reiter integrates these critical studies with his work on the contemporary Middle East, thereby enhancing fluidity dealing with Arabic and networks among Arab and Palestinian societies, using interviews and access to Islamic institutions' archives. He also combines methods of the humanities including history, comparative religion, culture studies and the social sciences’ political science and conflict resolution.
* ''National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs versus Jews in Israel''. Syracuse University Press, 2009.▼
* ''Islam and Peace Accords with Israel in Contemporary Fatwas''. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2008. [Hebrew, forthcoming in English]▼
'''Waqf Studies'''
* ''Islamic Institutions in Jerusalem: Palestinian Muslim Administration under Jordanian and Israeli Rule''. The Hague, London and Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997.▼
* ''Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem under British Mandate''. London and Portland OR: Frank Cass, 1996▼
Reiter's first studies pertained to the Islamic pious endowments (''waqf'') in Palestine under the British Mandate and in Israel.<!-- Reiter Y. 2003. “Waqf in Changing Circumstances: Economic Management and Political Role of the Waqf in Mandatory Jerusalem” in Economy and Society during the Mandate 1918-1948 [`Iyunim bi-tqumat Israel, Theme Series 2, Nahum Karlinski and Avi Bareli (eds.)] 2003, pp. 349-367. [Hebrew]; Reiter Y., 1995. “Family Waqf Entitlements in British Palestine (1917-1948).” Islamic Law and Society, 2:2, pp. 174-193; Reiter Y., (1994). “The Administration and Supervision of Waqf Properties in 20th Century Jerusalem” Varia Turcica (Istanbul: Institute Francais d’etudes Annatoliens) 26, pp. 169-182; Reiter , Y. 1992. “The Supervision of Waqf Management in Mandatory Jerusalem” Hamizrah Hehadash (Journal of the Israel Oriental Society), 34 (1992). pp. 77-94. [Hebrew]; Reiter Y. 1989. “An Assessment of the Reform in the Islamic Waqf Institution in Israel: Acre as a Case Study.” Hamizrah Hehadash (Journal of the Israel Oriental Society), 32. pp. 21-45. [Hebrew]; “Waqf in Israel Since 1965: The Case of Acre Reconsidered”, in Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter and Leonard Hammer, Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Confrontation and Co-existence (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 104-127; ““All of Palestine is Holy Muslim Waqf Land” – A Myth and Its Roots””, in Ron Shaham, ed. Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World, Studies in Honor of Professor Aharon Layish. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 172-197. --> His book [https://books.google.co.il/books?id=SJOaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT162&lpg=PT162&dq=Waqf+in+Jerusalem+during+the+British+Mandate&source=bl&ots=Iu3ryP21g8&sig=QkZGANkviHylYKoe1hAPXspPGig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiepPaup87TAhXFJcAKHfv7DmQQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=Waqf%20in%20J ''Islamic Endowments'' ''in Jerusalem''] ''during the British Mandate'' presents a comprehensive view of the role of an important institution in Muslim society on the basis of 1,500 legal documents of the ''Shari’a'' Court ''Sijillat'' between 1918-1948 and the archive of the Supreme Muslim Council located in Abu Dis. Unlike previous studies that presented the Waqf as a burden on the economy Reiter found that Muslim legal scholars, the Palestinian ''qadi''s of the ''Shari’a'' courts, and the political and economic elites were able to adapt this institution to the changing social and economic conditions, and especially to the modern era in a way that ''waqf'' assets were transacted in the real estate market and economically developed.
▲== Books ==
# ''Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine: Sharing and Conflict Resolution'' (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).
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# ''Feminism in the Temple: The Struggle of the Women of the Wall to Change the Status Quo'' (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies 2017, in Hebrew)
# ''Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery.'' Brighton, Chicago, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press and The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2014 (also in Hebrew and Arabic editions).
# ''A City with a Mosque in Its Heart'' (with Lior Lehrs, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2013, in Hebrew.
# ''War, Peace and International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel'' (Brighton, Portland and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2011 also in Hebrew and Arabic editions)
# ''The Sheikh Jarrah Affair: Strategic Implications of Jewish Settlement in an Arab Neighborhood in East Jerusalem'' (with Lior lehrs, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2010)'''''.'''''
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# ''The Political Life of Arabs in Israel''. (with Reuben Aharoni, Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, first ed. 1992, second revised ed. 1993, in Hebrew).
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== '''Edited Books''' ==
# ''The Arab Society in Israel'' (with Orna Cohen, Neve Ilan: Abraham Fund Initiatives, 2013, in Hebrew).
# ''Religion and Politics: Sacred Space in Palestine and Israel'' (with Breger, M. J., and Hammer L., London and New York: Routledge, 2012).
# ''Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-existence'' (with Breger, M. J., and Hammer L., London and New York: Routledge, 2009.)
# ''Dilemmas in Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel'' (Tel-Aviv: Schocken, 2005, in Hebrew).
# ''Sovereignty of God and Man: Sanctity and Political Centrality on the Temple Mount'' (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2001 in Hebrew)'''.'''
==References==
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