Gidon Bromberg co-founded EcoPeace Middle East in 1994 and has served as its Israeli Director for three decades. EcoPeace Middle East is an environmental peacebuilding organization uniting Palestinians, Jordanians, and Israelis to advance sustainable regional development and foster the conditions for lasting peace. Mr. Bromberg, an attorney by profession, is an alumni of Monash University in Australia, Washington College of Law at American University, and Yale University's World Fellows program. Mr. Bromberg has been immersed in the environmental peacebuilding world for over 30 years and has written extensively on the relationship between natural resource diplomacy and Middle East peace. He has presented on these issues before the UN Security Council, US Congress, European Parliament, UN Climate Summit, and in other local and international forums. Gidon is a member of the jury of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Award.
Israelis and Palestinians often play the blame game on the crucial issue of water. Palestinians scream “water apartheid” and Israelis respond with accusations of a “sewage intifada.” But recently there…
Despite continuing disputes over settlements, Jerusalem, borders, and refugees, there is at least one problem on which Arabs and Israelis can still make progress—water. Much hard work lies ahead. The…