Gilead Sher

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Gilead Sher is an Israeli attorney. He served as Bureau Chief and Policy Coordinator for Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, and acted as senior negotiator for Israel at the 2000 Camp David Summit and 2001 Taba Summit as well as in extensive rounds of covert negotiations with the Palestinians.

Sher is a founding senior partner of the law firm Aaronsohn, Sher, Aboulafia, Amoday & Co. His main practice areas are Project Finance; international business ventures, investments and transactions; constitutional law; and dispute resolution. He teaches frequently since 2001 as a guest lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, mainly Dispute Resolution and Negotiations in Times of Crisis.

During the tenure of the late PM Rabin, he served as head of the negotiation project at the Planning Division of the IDF and as delegate to the talks on the Interim Agreement. In 2002 he co-authored and published with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute an Israeli Policy Initiative for unilateral disengagement, and in 2003 Legal Aspects of Settlement Evacuation for Harvard Law School. The English version of his book The Israeli- Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001: Within Reach has been published by Routledge in 2006.

Sher is a Colonel (Res.), a former brigade commander and deputy division commander in the Armored Corps of the IDF as well as a military judge. He is a board member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and a member of the Council for Peace and Security. Sher was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite by the President of France, as appreciation for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.

A graduate of the Hebrew University Law School and admitted to the Israel Bar in 1981, Sher completed courses in project finance at Harvard University and the World Bank.