RB Islam-Israel Council

The Islam-Israel Fellowship of the Root & Branch Association, Ltd. promotes cooperation between Israel and Muslim nations, and between Jews and Muslims in Israel and abroad, to build a better world based upon a proper Jewish understanding of the Tanach (Bible) and Rabbinic Tradition and a proper Muslim understanding of the Qur'an (Koran) and Islamic Tradition.

Islam-Israel Fellowship Co-Chairmen

Muslim Co-Founder and Co-Chairman

Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi
Director, Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community
Secretary General, Italian Muslim Assembly
Advisory Council Member, Jewish Legal Heritage Society

Jewish Co-Founder and Co-Chairman

Dr. Asher Eder
Author,
Peace is Possible between Ishmael and Israel according to the Qur'an and the Tanach (Bible) (Foreward by Sheikh Palazzi)

Islam-Israel Fellowship Council

Bangladesh

SALAH UDDIN SHOAIB CHOUDHURY
Journalist, Columnist, Author & Peace Activist;
PEN U.S.A. F.T.W. Award 2005;
Editor & Publisher, Weekly Blitz
A.J.C. Moral Courage Award 2006;
Editor & Publisher, Weekly Blitz
mailto:salahuddinshoaibchoudhury@yahoo.com
www.weeklyblitz.net
Chief Editor, Weekly Jamjamat
www.interfaithstrength.com
(Muslim)

India

DR. SIDDIQ WAHID
Vice-Chairman
Islamic University of Srinegar
(Muslim)

Israel

MR. NABIL ABU SALMAN
Circassian Village of Abu Gosh
(Muslim)

MR. DAVID BENTATA
Author, "Islam and Israel" (Hebrew)
(Jewish)

PROFESSOR NATHAN ANDRE CHOURAQUI
Professor Chouraqui's books have been translated into sixteen languages and won numerous literary prizes.
1974-83 Member, Executive Committee, World Congress of Religions for Peace
1969-73 Jerusalem Municipal Council Member
President,
Commission of Culture and Foreign Relations
Jerusalem Municipality
1965-69 Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
1965-present Director, Sinai Publications, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris)
1959-63 Advisor, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
1950-56 Vice President
Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations (U.N.I.C.E.F.-U.N.A.C.)
1948 Doctor of Law (University of Paris)
1947-53 Assistant Secretary General, Alliance Israelite Universelle
1945-47 Judge, District of Algiers Court of Appeal
1942-45 Member, French Resistance in the Maquis of Central France

Prof. Chouraqui was a member of the Tribunal of the World Zionist Organization, founding President of the Alliance Francaise of Jerusalem, President of the Israel Interfaith Committee, President of the Israel Film Institute (Reginald Ford Foundation) and President of the Movement for a Middle East Confederation
(Jewish)

PROFESSOR ISAIAH FRIEDMAN
Emeritus Professor of History
Ben Gurion University
Author:
"The Question of Palestine 1914-1918: British-Jewish-Arab Relations"
(Routledge Publishers, 1971; Transaction Publishers, Second Edition, 1992)
"Germany, Turkey and Zionism from 1897 till 1918"
(Oxford University Press, 1977; Transaction Publishers, Second Edition, 1998)
"Palestine: Twice Promised Land?"
(Volume 1, Transaction Publishers, 2000; Volume 2 in preparation)
(Jewish)

MR. ROBERT KLEIN
(Jewish)

PROFESSOR NAHUM RAKOVER
Founder and President, Jewish Legal Heritage Society
Former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Israel
Former Advisor to the Knesset on Jewish Law
Former Professor of Law, Bar Ilan University
(Jewish)

DR. MAURICE M. ROUMANI
Director, Elyachar Center for Sephardi Heritage
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and Politics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
(Jewish)

DR. MICHAEL SHTERENSHIS
(Jewish)

MRS. MALKA SHULEWITZ
Founding Member, World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries
Author, "The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Exodus of Jews from Arab Countries"
(Cassell, London [now Continuum International], first hardcover edition, April, 1999)
Mrs. Shulewitz has written and lectured widely on the history of Jews from Arab countries, including the political implications of their expulsion and on the integration into the life of Israel.
(Jewish)

United States

DR. RICHARD L. BENKIN
Spokesman for Salah Choudhury
mailto:drrbenkin@comcast.net
www.InterfaithStrength.com
( Jewish)