Photo Gallery
Joel Singer talks about his experience in negotiating Israeli-Arab agreements.
One of the first Israelis to travel to Egypt after the historic visit to Israel of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (November 19, 1977), Singer is seen in this photo, taken on January 19, 1978, at the end of the first meeting of the Israeli and Egyptian Ministers of Defense in the Tahra Palace in Cairo. From left to right: Egyptian Minister of Defense Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy, Israeli Minister of Defense Ezer Weizmann and Joel Singer.
Singer shakes hands with Egyptian Minister of Defense Kamal Hassan Ali during the signing ceremenony of the Israel-Egypt Treaty of Peace in Washington, DC (March 26, 1979).
From left to right: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Joel Singer (sitting). For inexplicable reasons, Arafat gave Singer the nickname “Shwinger.”
The signing of the Israel-PLO Interim Agreement (Oslo II) inside the White House on September 28, 1995. From left to right: Joel Singer, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. Presidemnt Bill Clinton, Jordanian King Hussein and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
Joel Singer with the cast of the Oslo Play at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York. From right to left: Jennifer Ehle (who played the Norwegian mediator Mona Juul, wife of Terje Rod Larsen), Bartlett Sher (the director), Joel Singer, Joseph Siravo (who played Joel Singer), the real Terje Rod Larsen (the Norwegian mediator), and J.T. Rogers (the author).
Shaking hands in Oslo, Norway after initialing the Oslo Agreement on August 20, 1993. From left to right: Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Uri Savir, Joel Singer and chief PLO negotiator Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala).
Singer and chief PLO negotiator Nabil Shaath negotiating the 1994 Gaza – Jericho Agreement in a Cairo hotel.
The signing ceremony of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement in Cairo, Egypt (May 4, 1994). From right to left: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Joel singer, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations on Lessons From History: Twenty–Five Years After the Oslo Accords. (October 4, 2018). From right to left: Richard N. Hass President, Council on Foreign Relations; Joel Singer, Martin S. Indyk, Former U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations; Gaith Al-Omari, Former Advisor to the Palestinian Negotiatiors for the Permanent Status Talks.
Interview with Joel Singer by 124NEWS (September 12, 2018): Looking Back at the 25 Years Since the Oslo Accords Were Signed.