MissionParticipant

Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and a cofounder of the Shalom Hartman’s Engaging Israel program in Jerusalem.

After making Aliyah to Israel in 1982, David Olesker has helped pioneer the application of informal education techniques to training advocates for Israel.

Ben Zion Gruber completed his initial army service in the Hesder unit in 1980, finishing as a platoon commander ranking second lieutenant.

Yitzchak Santis is Chief Programs Officer for NGO Monitor.

Itamar Marcus is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli NGO that studies Palestinian society by monitoring the Palestinian Authority’s Arabic media and schoolbooks.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar is an scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.

Mark Regev is the spokesman for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the former Spokesman of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Spokesman at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.

Isi Leibler is a veteran international Jewish leader.

Dr. Einat Wilf, a Senior Fellow with the Jewish People Policy Institute and an Adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was Chair of the Education, Sports and Culture Committee, Chair of the Knesset Sub-Committee for Israel and the Jewish People, and Member of the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 18th Knesset.

Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Jerusalem.

Noam Bedein is a director of the Sderot Media Center, a media advocacy center which portrays the human face of Sderot and southern Israel under siege, to the international media and public.

Dr. Jonathan Rynhold teaches in the department of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he is also the head of the Argov Center for Israel and the Jewish People and a researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies.

Dr Petra Heldt, of German origin, resides in Israel since 1979 and is a Director of the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel (ETRFI).

Dr. Aliza Lavie is a Member of Knesset for the Yesh Atid party in the 20th Knesset and was part of the governing coalition in the previous government.

Neil Lazarus is the director of AwesomeSeminars.com. He is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker in the field of Middle East and Israeli politics, Israel advocacy, and effective communication training.

Miri Eisin served in the Israeli intelligence community and retired from active duty at the rank of full colonel in 2004. Appointed as the Israeli government spokesperson during the Second Lebanon War, and later as the Prime Minister’s international media advisor, she served in that position until December 2007.

Born in Hizmeh in the West Bank, Suleiman Khatib is the General Director of Al- Quds Association for Democracy and Dialogue which he founded together with fellow Palestinian peace activists in 2006 in order to be able to create effective and sustainable projects and programs focusing on the promotion of peace, democracy, and civic participation in the Palestinian Territories.