Jeff Halper
Anthropologe
an der Universität in Beer Sheva, ist der Koordinator vom
Israelischen Komitee gegen Hauszerstörungen (ICAHD)
Jeff Halper (53) is the Coordinator of the
Israeli Committee Against House demolitions (ICAHD) and a Professor of
Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has lived in Israel since 1973.
Jeff has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and is the
author of the book Between Redemption and Revival: the Jewish Yishuv in
Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, Westview, 1991. Jeff founded and
directed IsraelÍs Committee to Save the Ethiopian Jews. He has been active
in the Israeli peace movement for many years. As the Coordinator of ICAHD,
he has forged a new mode of Israeli peace activity based on non-violent
direct action and civil disobedience to the Israeli Occupation authorities
and in close cooperation with Palestinian organizations. Jeff is married and
has three children.