Yossi Beilin

Then serving as Deputy Foreign Minister, he participated in the back-channel negotiations that eventually led to the adoption of the 1993 Oslo Accords, a framework agreement to end the Israeliā€“Palestinian conflict.

At the age of bar mitzvah, he adopted a more rigorously religious life, though did not choose to wear a yarmulke (traditional Jewish cap).

In the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he served in the signal corps and participated in the Six-Day War (1967) in Sinai in Division 8.

In 1969 Beilin began his career as a journalist for the newspaper Davar and in 1977 entered the political arena as a spokesperson for the Labour Party.

As Beilin left government, he initiated the informal negotiation on a very detailed peace agreement model, with Palestinian minister Yasser Abed Rabbo and others.

[6] In 2003, after a lengthy process, he signed the Geneva Accords, creating a possible structure of a permanent agreement between Israel and an independent Palestinian state.

On November 3, the Knesset held a farewell meeting for Beilin with, at the time Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

He issued a condolence message on the death of Yasser Arafat, as well as proposals to transfer the ownership of the Shebah Farms to Lebanon [citation needed] and pardon Marwan Barghouti.

[13] In 2016, Beilin made headlines by criticizing the legacy of Benjamin Ben-Eliezer shortly after his death, calling him "an aggressive, destructive politician".

the Founder and President of Beilink,[15] a business consulting firm that help clients connect to new markets both in Israel and abroad, make strategic investments and decisions, forge strong international relationships with key stakeholders, navigate the spectrum between the political and private spheres, locate investors, and ultimately expand and strengthen businesses.

[16] In the same year he received the journalistic prize Golden Doves for Peace issued by the Italian Research Institute Archivio Disarmo.