WHO:	Yair Hirschfeld, professor of history, Haifa University
WHAT:	Lecture entitled, “Will the (Israeli-Palestinian) Oslo Accords Pave the Way to a Two-state Solution?” FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
WHEN:	7:00 p.m., February 16, 2011
WHERE:	IJ & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center 2 N. Medical Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah

February 10, 2011- Yair Hirschfeld, renowned scholar and one of the chief architects of the Oslo Accords, will discuss the strategy that guided the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the 1990’s and their impact on the present policies of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United States. This event – co-sponsored by the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center, Hinckley Institute of Politics and the IJ & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center – is free and open to the public.

Hirschfeld remains involved in the peace process today and is working on Israeli-Turkish relations and on a two-state solution in the Middle East. In the fall, he will return to the University of Utah as the first Wayne Owens Chair in Middle East Studies. This semester-long fellowship is a joint effort with the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Tanner Humanities Center and Middle East Center.