Yair Hirschfeld has since 1979 been involved in promoting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. During the 1980ies he organized the confidential dialogue between Shimon Peres with the Palestinian leadership on the West Bank and Gaza. He led the non-official Israeli team in Norway and became then a member of the official Israeli negotiating team leading to the conclusion of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles of September 1993.

Since then Hirschfeld has entertained close relations with senior strategists and decision-makers in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, the US and the EU, which has enabled him, to offer (direct or indirect)  advice together with his team, to every Israeli government.  Hirschfeld is also involved during the last years in a social, cultural and political dialogue with rabbinical leaders and other leading figures of the settler community. 

Recent Publication:  Yair Hirschfeld Track Two Diplomacy toward an Israeli-Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014; (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and John Hopkins University Press 2014).