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Yohanan Tzoreff is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies. His areas of research are Israeli-Palestinian relations, Palestinian society, its connection to Israel and the settlements, as well as the Palestinian inter-organizational system.
Tzoreff joined the Institute at the end of 2019 following distinguished careers in the military and civilian fields. His most recent military role was Arab Adviser to the Civil Administration in the Gaza Strip (Lt. Col. Res.) during the First Intifada, until the completion of the implementation of the Oslo Accords. Among other things, he served as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s personal translator in many of the public meetings he held with Yasser Arafat in the first year after the implementation of the Accords on the Gaza border.
Upon his retirement, Tzoreff served as secretary general of the Netivot Shalom movement (1998-1999) and later managed educational projects at Bar-Ilan and Ben-Gurion Universities which brought together religious Israeli educators with Palestinian educators from high schools (2000-2009). Tzoreff participated in numerous meetings held with the Palestinians as part of the Track Two. He was a research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy. Tzoreff returned to civil service in 2010 and, among other things, served as head of the Palestinian-Arab Division in the Ministry of Intelligence and Strategy.
