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The Rights of Jews to Statehood

Prof. Ruth Gavison,   August 29, 2008
 
Prof. Ruth Gavison
August 29, 2008
Filed under: Israel at 60
Publication: Special Reports

Filed under: Israel at 60
Prof. Ruth Gavison
Ruth Gavison is Haim H. Cohn Professor Emerita of Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the Israel Prize in Law 2011, and the founding president of Metzilah, a Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought. She has taught at Yale and the University of Southern California, and was a fellow at Princeton’s Center for Human Values. She has been a member of numerous Israeli Public Inquiry Committees, including the Winograd Commission to investigate the 2006 Lebanon War. She was a founding member of ACRI, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, served for many years as its chairperson and, from 1996-1999 as its president.
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