Yossi Beilin

Yossi Beilin currently serves as Israel’s Minister of Justice. In his various public roles–as a member of the Knesset since 1988, a leader of Israel’s Labor Party, and a minister in the governments of Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Ehud Barak–Beilin has set the agenda for Israeli politics for more than a decade. He began the process that resulted in the 1993 Oslo Accords and led the public movement for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, which was a key catalyst in paving the way to the withdrawal of May 2000. Born in Israel in 1948, Beilin is married and has two sons. He lives in Tel Aviv.