Gidi Grinstein

He helped to found TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers, a global nonprofit that aids the disabled, elderly and poor.

During that period he also founded and led the Israeli team that designed the Birthright Israel program, based on the ideas of Yossi Beilin.

In 1999-2001 Gidi served as the Secretary and Coordinator of the Israeli Delegation for the Negotiations with the PLO in the Office and then in the Bureau of the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak.

Within this framework, he led the launch of XLN (2011-2018), of Impact Labs in partnership with WeWork (in 2017) and TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers (in 2014).

"[4] In September 2023, Grinstein published "(In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Facing Israel."

Gidi Grinstein at the Israel 2021 Conference