Yitzhak Reiter

Yitzhak Reiter 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.

Yitzhak Reiter
Portrait of Yitzhak Reiter
Nationality	Israeli
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	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)

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).