MIT World Speakers

Jeff Halper

Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist. He retired recently from Ben Gurion University. He is a harsh critic of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and, as founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), one of the leading peace and anti-occupation activists in Israel.

A transplant from Minnesota, Halper has lived in Israel since 1973. He 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. Halper founded and directed Israeli's Committee to Save the Ethiopian Jews.