Yitzhak Reiter

Yitzhak Reiter
יצחק רייטר
Portrait of Yitzhak Reiter
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Workplaces	Reichman University Al-Qasemi College Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research
Thesis	הווקף המוסלמי בירושלים בתקופת המנדט כפי שהוא משתקף מרשומות (סג'ל) בית-הדין השרעי (1990)

Yitzhak Reiter (Hebrew: יצחק רייטר) is an Israeli political scientist. He is a professor specializing in Israel studies and Islamic and Middle East history and politics, teaching at Reichman University and Al-Qasemi College. A senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, he formerly chaired the Department of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College.

Books

Author

• Contested Holy Places in Israel-Palestine: Sharing and Conflict Resolution (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).
• The Eroding Status Quo: Conflict over Controlling the Temple Mount (Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and Multieducator 2017.
• 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).
• National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs versus Jews in Israel (Syracuse University Press, 2009)
• Jerusalem and its Role in Islamic Solidarity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
• 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).
• 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).
• Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem 1948-1990. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1991. [Hebrew].

Editor

• 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).