Mission>Mission: People

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.

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

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.

Daniel Seaman was Director Deputy General for Information at the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. Prior to this appointment he was Acting-Director of the Israel Government Press Office.

Gerald Steinberg is a Professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, who directs the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation and heads NGO Monitor.

Brigadier General (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is Director General of the Israeli Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy.

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.

Dave Sharma was appointed Australia’s Ambassador to Israel in June 2013.

Dr. Harvey Belik was born in Melbourne and made aliya in 1988. He is a family medicine specialist and a Medical Officer and Reserve Major in the IDF.

Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for the Jerusalem Post.

Lt. Col. (Res.) Avital Leibovich has a distinguished career spanning over 20 years in a wide range of senior media and public relations positions within the Israel Defense Forces. She is currently the Director of the American Jewish Committee in Israel.

Former Member of Knesset (MK) Rabbi Dov Lipman moved from Silver Spring, MD to Beit Shemesh, Israel in 2004 with his wife and four children. He was elected to the 19th Knesset as a member of the Yesh Atid party led by MK Yair Lapid, and was the first American-born MK in close to 30 years.

David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel, the Jerusalem-based current affairs website that launched in February 2012.

Yair Miller is a former President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and a Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

Amotz Asa-El is the President of BusinessWeek Israel, a Fellow at the Shalem Center, and a Middle East commentator for The Wall Street Journal/MarketWatch.