Dr. Ephraim Kleiman is one of the leading authorities on the Palestinian economy and its relationships with Israel. Over the last 25 years, Dr. Kleiman has participated in many formal and informal Israeli-Palestinian discussions, and on various task forces searching for solutions to the Middle Eastern conflict. He has served as the senior economic advisor to the Israeli delegation at the Israel-PLO economic negotiations in Paris in 1993/94. A graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the London School of Economics, he joined the faculty of Hebrew University in 1963, where is currently Don Patinkin Emeritus Professor of Economics. He has held numerous visiting appointments in the US, UK, Sweden and Australia, he was Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington in 1996, Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics in 1999 and Visiting Professor of Economics at MIT in 2001 and 2003. His more than 80 articles and essays on issues of international trade, public finance, history of economic thought, and the role of wage and financial indexation under inflation have appeared in, among others, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Kyklos, and History of Political Economy.