Meron Benvenisti is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i political scientist who was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek

Teddy Kollek

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989...

 from 1971 to 1978, during which he administered East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War...

 and served as Jerusalem's Chief Planning Officer. He is a medieval scholar and published books and maps on the Crusader period in the Holy Land. In 1984 he founded the West Bank Database Project, documenting social, economic, and political developments in the West Bank. Since 1992 he devotes his time to teaching as visiting lecturer (Ben Gurion U. 1994-1998, Johns Hopkins SAIS Washington DC 1982-2009), research and writing on Jerusalem, Northern Ireland conflict, Israeli- Palestinian relations, Palestinian vanished landscape, bi-nationalism and restaurant reviews. He was a fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington DC and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's CFIA and a recipient of research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the US institute of Peace. Between 1991-2009 he wrote a column for Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper. He holds a doctorate from Harvard's Kennedy School. He is the son of Israel Prize recipient David Benvenisti.
He has long been a critic of Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and is an advocate of the idea of a binational state.

Books (partial)

• Benvenisti, Meron (1970): The Crusaders in the Holy Land, New York http://books.google.com/books?id=QSETAQAAIAAJ&q=meron+benvenisti&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=Ff91TvrJOYrKsgb1ttSeCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA
• Benvenisti, Meron (1976): Jerusalem, the Torn City, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ISBN 0-8166-0795-8)
• Benvenisti, Meron (1984): West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ISBN 0-8447-3544-2 http://books.google.com/books?id=ILhtAAAAMAAJ&q=meron+benvenisti&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=Ff91TvrJOYrKsgb1ttSeCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg
• Benvenisti, Meron (1986): Conflicts and Contradictions, Villard, ISBN 0-394-53647-9 http://books.google.com/books?id=zUJgFZAwWz4C&q=meron+benvenisti&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=Ff91TvrJOYrKsgb1ttSeCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBQ
• Benvenisti, Meron (1995): Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land University of California Press ISBN 0-520-08567-1 http://books.google.com/books?id=8_fUEOBK2YQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=B_51TvLsD8jMswaRvf2TCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Benvenisti, Meron (1996): City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem University of California Press ISBN 0-520-20521-9 http://books.google.com/books?id=_Q8Ete9w6woC&printsec=frontcover&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=lf51Tu-BIsnCswaB3v3TCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Benvenisti, Meron (2002): Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23422-7 http://books.google.com/books?id=7itq6zYtSJwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=lP11Tq-HJ8fEswblgeGzCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=meron%20benvenisti&f=false
• Benvenisti, Meron (2007): Sons of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections and Regrets from a Political Life. University of California Press http://books.google.com/books?id=ygfujnZiLrwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=meron+benvenisti&hl=en&ei=1v51TsTMF4fRsgb2x9lH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Articles (partial)

• Either a Zionist or a terrorist, 2 January 2002 Haaretz,
• Systematically burying ourselves, 17 January 2002, Haaretz,
• The homeland purified of Arabs, 26 September 2002 Haaretz, (about Sataf
  Sataf
  Sataf was an Arab village in the District of Jerusalem depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It is located 10 km west of Jerusalem, with Sorek riverbed bordering the east....
  
  )
• Loving `the homeland', 10 October 2002, Haaretz,
• The binational option, 8 November 2002, Haaretz,
• The never-ending enterprise, 21 November 2002, Haaretz,
• A tank under the Christmas tree, 19 December 2002, Haaretz,
• Prime minister of what?, 13 March 2003, Haaretz,
• The true test of the imperial pretension, 10 April 2003, Haaretz,
• The capital nobody wants to lead, 24 April 2003, Haaretz,
• The High Court and fear of return, 3 July 2003, Haaretz, (about Ikrit
  Iqrit
  Iqrit was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometers northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was captured and depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
  
  )
• When will Israel become a homeland?, 31 July 2003, Haaretz,
• : Cry, the beloved two-state solution (Part 2), 8 August 2003, Haaretz,
• A wall against fear, 28 August 2003, Haaretz,
• Defensive walls of self-righteousness, 6 November 2003, Haaretz,
• Which kind of binational state?, 20 November 2003, Haaretz,
• Bantustan Plan for an Apartheid IsraelThe Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  April 26, 2004.
• The hypocrisy of tolerance, 9 February 2006, Haaretz, (about the Museum of Tolerance
  Center for Human Dignity
  The Center for Human Dignity is the Simon Wiesenthal Center-planned Museum of Tolerance over Mamilla Cemetery at the center of West Jerusalem between Zion Square and the neighbourhood of Mamilla. The construction of the approximately 200-million dollar Museum began in June 2005 and was expected to...
  
  , Jerusalem)
• A lull of no return, 29 May 2008, Haaretz, (on the possible/probable de facto long-term political division between Gaza and the West Bank and its effects on both Israel and the Palestinians)