Yonatan Mizrahi works as the Settlement Watch project co-director at the Israeli peace movement of “Peace Now” since 2022.
Widely-recognized as one of Israel’s foremost experts on a full range of issues related to West Bank settlements and settlement-related developments in East Jerusalem, Yonatan’s work includes traveling daily throughout the West Bank, examining aerial photos and browsing official Israeli documents. The “Settlement Watch” project serves as a resource for Israeli politicians, diplomats, international media organizations, and first and foremost – for the Israeli public.
Yonathan Mizrachi completed a MA in archaeology at the Hebrew University. He has worked as an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority in East and West Jerusalem, and has participated in excavations led by Hebrew University professors. In 2006, he published a book about his experiences as archaeological supervisor along the route of the separation barrier as it was being built in and around Jerusalem (“People of the Wall”, Pardes 2006). Following growing concern about the politicization of archaeology in Jerusalem, in 2009 Mizrachi co-founded Emek Shaveh, an NGO working to prevent the exploitation of archaeology in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has served as its’ executive director till 2021. He has published many articles in the media about the relationship between archaeology and politics.
yonatan@peacenow.org.il