Dr. Limor Yehuda
Senior Research Fellow, leader of the “partnership-based peace” project
Dr. Limor Yehuda is a senior research fellow and leader of the Shemesh Center for the Study of a Partnership-Based Peace (under construction) at the VLJI. She is a jurist who studies conflicts and peace processes from a comparative, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian case. Dr. Yehuda earned all of her degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, where she lectures on transitional justice, democracy and multiculturalism.
Dr. Yehuda is currently studying processes of transition from conflict to peace, with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian case. Her book “Collective Equality: Human rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts” was recently published by Cambridge University Press. Since 2021 Dr. Yehuda has co-led with Ameer Fakhoury and Oren Yiftachel the partnership-based Israeli-Palestinian peace thinking group at the VLJI.
In addition to her academic work, Limor is a founding member of A Land for All (“Two States, One Homeland”), and co-chair of its executive board. She was previously a legal assistant at Israel’s Supreme Court, an assistant in the state committee of inquiry into the Versaille wedding hall disaster, and a lawyer and director of the department for human rights in the Occupied Territories at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).