(1954- ) A Jewish Israeli political figure and intellectual. Tamir began her career as a professor of political philosophy and still currently teaches at Tel Aviv University; she also helped start the Israeli Peace Now movement in 1978. As a member of the Labor party, Tamir first entered politics when appointed as Minister of Immigrant Absorption in 1999. She went on to serve in the Israeli parliament from 2003-2010. During her time as Minister of Education from 2006-2009, Tamir: 1) approved a textbook for use in Palestinian Arab Israeli schools that mentioned Al-Nakba, the Palestinian term for the expulsion or dispossession of Palestinians after Israel’s establishment and the subsequent War of 1948, and 2) announced plans to remove Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinksy’s work from Israel’s national curriculum. She resigned her position in parliament in 2010. See “Yael (Yuli) Tamir, MK.” Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 24 August 2011. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/3/Yael%20-Yuli-%20Tamir; and Ben-Yehuda, Roi. “Peace movement has become powerless, says MK Yuli Tamir.” 27 December 2009. http://www.haaretz.com/news/peace-movement-has-become-powerless-says-mk-yuli-tamir-1.1294.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/tamir-yuli