Naomi Chazan

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Naomi Chazan

Date of birth	18 November 1946 (1946-11-18) (age 61)
Place of birth	Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
Knesset(s)	13th, 14th, 15th
Party	Meretz

Naomi Chazan (Hebrew: נעמי חזן‎, born 18 November 1946) is a Professor of Political Science and a former member of the Knesset. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in New York City and her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974. In addition to her native Hebrew, she speaks English, French, and Swahili.

Chazan was twice a member of Israel's delegtation to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995). She also was head of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, President of the Israeli branch of the Society for International Development, Vice President of the International Association of Political Science, and founder and member of the Board of the Israel Women’s Network.

In April 2008, Chazan signed a letter of support for the recently created J Street American pro-peace lobby group.^[1]

1 Career in the Knesset
2 Selected publications
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career in the Knesset

Chazan was elected to the 13th Knesset in 1992 on the list of the newly-formed Meretz party and retained her seat until 2003. From 1996 to 2003, she served as Deputy Speaker of the 14th and 15th Knessets. She has also been a member of over a dozen legislative committees throughout her political career.

[edit] Thirteenth Knesset (23 June 1992 – 29 May 1996)

Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Laws of Personal Status
Member of the Economics Committee
Member of the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee
Member of the Committee on the Status of Women

[edit] Fourteenth Knesset (29 May 1996 – 17 May 1999)

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Member of the Immigration and Absorption Committee
Member of the Committee on the Status of Women
Member of the Committee on Drug Abuse
Member of the Committee for the Examination of the Maccabia Bridge Disaster
Member of the Education and Culture Committee

[edit] Fifteenth Knesset (17 May 1999 – 28 January 2003)

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Member of the House Committee
Member of the Economics Committee
Member of the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee
Member of the Committee on Drug Abuse
Member of the Public Petitions Committee
Member of the Special Legislative Committee for Not Renewing the Emergency Situation
Member of the Special Committee for Discussion of the Security Service Law
Member of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on Traffic Accidents

[edit] Selected publications

Chazan has authored, coauthored, or edited at least eight books and 56 articles in academic journals on comparative (especially African) and Israeli politics.

An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics: Managing Political Recession, 1969-1982 (Westview Press, 1983, ISBN 086531439X)
Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty (Westview Press, 1986, ISBN 0865313695), with Deborah Pellow
Coping with Africa’s Food Crisis (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0931477840), with Timothy M. Shaw
The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Westview Press, 1988, ISBN 0813309689), with Donald Rothchild
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0333468384), with Robert Mortimer, John Ravenhill, and Donald Rothchild; reprinted 1992 (ISBN 1555872832) and 1999 (ISBN 155587679X)
Irredentism and International Politics (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991, ISBN 1555872212), edited volume
Civil Society and the State in Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, ISBN 155587360X), edited with John W. Harbeson and Donald Rothchild
The Early State in African Perspective: Culture, Power and Division of Labor (Brill Academic Publishers, 1997, ISBN 9004083553), edited with S.N. Eisenstadt and Michel Abitbol