Gilead Sher
Senior Partner
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Founding senior partner of Gilead Sher & Co. Gilead specializes in international, business and political negotiations. His main practice areas are Commercial Law, including corporate, international business ventures, project financing and infrastructure and Administrative and Constitutional Law. He acts as mediator and arbitrator in connection with a wide range of legal and business cases. |
Gilead was Head of Bureau and Policy Coordinator of Israel's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak. He was co-chief negotiator in 1999-2001 at the Camp David summit and the Taba talks as well as in extensive rounds of covert negotiations with the Palestinians. A senior research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Sher teaches annually as a guest lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a visiting professor in Tel Aviv University.
Extensively involved in the political, foreign policy and national security fields, Gilead dedicates part of his time to promoting peace in the Middle East in the framework of various activities and positions in Israel and abroad. Mr. Sher’s involvement in Israel’s peace efforts started during the tenure of the late Prime Minister Rabin, as head of the negotiation project at the Planning Division of the IDF and as delegate to the talks on the Interim Agreement.
Gilead is a Colonel (Res.), a former brigade commander and deputy division commander in the Armored Corps of the IDF as well as a military judge.
Gilead was a board member of the Association for Civil Rights and a member of the Council for Peace and Security. His book “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001: Within Reach” has been translated into English and Arabic.
Education: Hebrew University, Jerusalem (LL.B.)
Member: Israel Bar Association (Admitted 1981)
Languages: Hebrew, English and French
Email: gilead@gsher-law.com
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