Itamar Rabinovich, the president of Tel Aviv University and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will give two public lectures during his April visit as a Cornell Andrew Dixon White Professor-at-Large.

On Wednesday April 11, Rabinovich will give an address titled "Arab-Israeli Relations in the Aftermath of the U.S. and Israeli Elections" at 4:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith D (lecture hall) in Goldwin Smith Hall. On Thursday April 12, he will speak at a Peace Studies seminar on "The Failure of Camp David II: A Case Study in Conflict Resolution" at 12:15 p.m. in G08 Uris Hall. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Rabinovich earned a doctorate in Middle Eastern history from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1971 and served as Israeli ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1996. He is former dean of the faculty at Tel Aviv University and the author of numerous books, including The Road Not Taken, Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations (Oxford 1991), which won the Jewish Book Award.

Walter LaFeber, the M.U. Noll Professor of American History at Cornell, said of Rabinovich: "It's difficult to think of a contemporary who better fulfills the Cornell trustees' legislation creating the A.D. White professor-at-large position. Rabinovich is a unique resource with international standing in both the scholarly and diplomatic worlds." Rabinovich's most recent visit to campus as a professor-at-large was in 1998.

The Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large Program was started in 1965 in honor of Cornell's first president. Participants are chosen for their prominence in diverse disciplines and are appointed for six-year terms with an obligation to spend at least two weeks at Cornell in each of their two three-year periods.