Yariv Lapid

Born 1960 in Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in the north of Israel.
History studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Hamburg. Research fellow at the Van Leer Institute, currently writing a Ph.D. at the Ben Gurion University.
Leading positions at Israeli NGOs (Besod Siach Association for the Advancement of Dialogue between Conflict Groups in Israel; Eitan Association, a Platform for Political Discourse; Elul, a Beit Midrash facilitating inclusive and creative studies of traditional Jewish texts).
At Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Authority, headed the Desk for the German Speaking Countries at the International School for Holocaust Studies.
Currently creating a pedagogical infrastructure for the Mauthausen Memorial in Austria.

Publication:
Frölich, Margrit, Lapid, Yariv & Schneider, Christian (Hrsg.), Repräsentationen des Holocaust im Gedächtnis der Generationen. Zur Gegenwartsbedeutung des Holocaust in Israel und Deutschland. Brandes & Apsel Verlag, 2004

His presentation:

Some Notes on the Historical Baggage of German-Israeli Relations: Exclusions in Mainstream Discourse