Bio
Baroness Ruth Deech - Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is an academic, lawyer and bioethicist, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994-2002.
Asher Susser - Asher Susser, PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1986). Director for External Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and former Director of the Center (1989-1995, 2001-2007). Professor Susser teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University and in 2006 he received the Faculty of Humanities outstanding teacher's award. Fields of specialization: history and politics of Jordan and the Palestinians; religion and state in the Middle East; and Arab-Israeli issues.
Yael (Yuli) Tamir - Yael (Yuli) Tamir was born in Israel in 1954. She received a B.A. cum laude in Biology from the Hebrew University in 1978 and an M.A. in Political Science in 1985, as well as a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Oxford University in England (1989). She served in the IDF, completing her service with the rank of Lieutenant.
Tamir is a Professor of Political Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University and served as a Research Fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities as well as the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. She served as a member of the board of directors of the Jerusalem Foundation and the Israel Institute of Democracy. Prof. Tamir has authored several books as well as articles liberalism, nationalism, feminism, and the theory of rights.
In 1978 she was one of the founders of the Peace Now movement and a member of the Women's Lobby. From 1998-1999 she served as Chairperson of the Civil Rights Organization and was active in the Israel Labor Party from 1995-1999.
Yuli Tamir served as Minister of Immigrant Absorption from August 1999 until March 2001.
Elected to the Knesset in 2003, she served as a Member of the Knesset Finance, Constitution, Law and Justice, and Education, Culture and Sports Committees, as well as on the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Uncovering Corruption in the Government System of Israel.
In May 2006 Yuli Tamir was appointed Minister of Minister of Education. She served as acting Minister of Science, Culture and Sports from November 2006 until March 2007.
She is divorced and the mother of two.
