![Shlomo Avineri, 1933-](https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Current-Avineri_Shlomo-with-Reuven-Rivlin-and-wives-by-Mark-Neyman-Israeli-GPO-2018.jpg)
Avineri, a native of Poland, is one of Israel’s premier political scientists as a Hebrew University professor and has written extensively on the history of political philosophy, especially Marx and Engels. His Herzl biography emphasizes the failures of Jewish emancipation in Austria-Hungary over the Dreyfus Affair in leading Herzl to Zionism. As the director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975 to 1977, Avineri was open to negotiations with the PLO.
Photo: Shlomo Avineri and Reuven Rivlin and their wives (Mark Neyman, Israeli Government Press Office)