Yitzhak Reiter is an associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Ashkelon Academic College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior fellow at both the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several books including "Islamic Endowment in Jerusalem under British Mandate" (Frank Cass, 1996) and "Islamic Institutions in Jerusalem: Palestinian Muslim Administration under Jordanian and Israeli Rule "(Kluwer Law International, 1997).