Itamar Rabinovich is a distinguished nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program focusing on Middle Eastern policy and politics as well as a member of the Brookings Institution’s International Advisory Council. He is professor and president emetitus at Tel Aviv University and vice chair of its Institute for National Security Studies. He previously served as Yitzhak Rabin’s ambassador to Washington and chief negotiator with Syria. He is the author of Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman and Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath. His book, Middle Eastern Maze was published by Brookings in early 2023