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Ron Pundak ( he, רון פונדק; 14 May 1955 – 11 April 2014) was an Israeli historian and journalist. He played an important role in starting the
Oslo peace process The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993;
in 1993, and was part of the core group behind the Geneva Initiative. Pundak was the executive director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Yafo and co-chairman of its Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum. He was on the board of directors of the Aix Group.


Background

Ron Pundak was born in Tel Aviv. His parents are Danish Jewish immigrants from Denmark. He was the son of
Herbert Pundik Herbert Pundik or Nahum Pundak ( he, נחום פונדק; September 23, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was a Danish- Israeli journalist and author. He worked for the newspaper Information and as a correspondent for Danmarks Radio. Since 1965, he worke ...
, a Danish-Israeli journalist and author. In 1991 Pundak graduated from the
University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degr ...
with a PhD in Middle Eastern Political History.


Career

After his return to Israel, he worked as a journalist at the Israeli daily newspaper '' Ha'aretz'' for one year. Together with fellow academic Yair Hirschfeld, he founded an NGO called the
Economic Cooperation Foundation The Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF, Heb.: הקרן לשיתוף פעולה כלכלי) was founded by Dr. Yair Hirschfeld (the initiator of the Oslo Peace Process), former Minister of Justice Dr. Yossi Beilin at the end of 1990 as a non-pr ...
(ECF), through which they established relationships with Palestinian leaders, which eventually led to the Oslo peace process. In 2001 Pundak became director general of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Yafo, a position he held until 2011.


Personal life

Pundak died age 58 on 11 April 2014 after a long period with cancer.Ron Pundak, architect of Oslo Accords, dies at 59
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Bio at the Peres-CenterAix Group
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pundak, Ron 1955 births 2014 deaths Alumni of the University of London Israeli Jews Israeli journalists People from Tel Aviv Israeli people of Danish-Jewish descent