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...Gazit's credentials as practitioner are many. In the past ten years, he has handled a series of important diplomatic assignments, including heading the Israeli delegation at the 1975 Geneva peace talks with Egypt, serving as ambassador to France, and acting as director general of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office...
Recalling the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, Gazit says he felt frustration when Egypt's President Anwar Sadat refused to let negotiations run over schedule into 1976 because he feared that the American presidential elections would adversely affect the Egyptian position...
Following a 31-year career in one of the world's most volatile regions, Mordechai Gazit, former director general of the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs, returned to the more sedate life of scholarship this year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CfIA...
...year-old Gazit emphasizes that his turn to scholarship does not represent a divergence from his diplomatic career, but an academic extension of it. "You can offer the discipline of political science a different angle as a practitioner rather than a theorist," he says...
...found out we were dealing with a very serious government, bent on a settlement," Gazit says. But he is quick to point out the lighter side of the difficulties. "The negotiations were in September and between the Moslem Sabbath on Fridays, and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur falling on Sundays and Mondays that year, it made for amusing negotiations and necessitated and two consecutive 24-hour sessions," he says...