Dr. Lior Lehrs is the Director of the Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking Program at Mitvim. Lior is also a Research Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Hebrew University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, as well as a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Lior was previously a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, where he focused on the topic of Jerusalem within Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, the neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and conflicts in holy sites.