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Daniel Seidemann is the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO that deals with crisis management and conflict resolution in the city. He is also a practicing attorney and specializes in legal and public issues in East Jerusalem. Since 1994 he has participated in many of the Track II talks on Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2000 and 2001, he served on a committee of experts commissioned by the prime minister, Ehud Barak, which studied the implementation of political agreements with the Palestinians.

Daniel Seidemann is a graduate of Cornell University and he immigrated to Israel in 1973. A retired reserve major in the Israeli Defense Forces, he received a degree in Law from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2010, in recognition of his work in Jerusalem, he was awarded an honorary MBE.

Publications

Jerusalem: The key to Israel’s peace? or an existential liability?: Daniel Seidemann 23 August 2011
The Jewish attachment to Jerusalem is incontrovertible. However, the realities in Jerusalem today clash with Israel’s genuine interests, and a blind devotion to exclusive Israeli rule over a mythical “undivided” city poses grave existential challenges to the long-term viability of Israel and its character. Indeed, a dr... more
Jerusalem on the brink: Daniel Seidemann 15 August 2010
Daniel Seidemann likens the Israeli-Palestinian situation today to that of 2000, when a depleted peace process along with events in Jerusalem triggered an eruption that devastated the political process and sparked a bloody conflict. more