Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. During his time in the Israeli government, including as deputy prime minister, and as the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sharansky fought tirelessly for the rights of new immigrants, religious minorities, and women. At the helm of the Jewish Agency, he focused on repatriation of Jews to Israel, strengthening the links between Israel and global Jewry, and made an effort to develop a separate, egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Sharansky is the sole living non-U.S. citizen to receive both the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is married to Avital Sharansky and has two daughters, Rachel and Hannah.

Robert Singer served as the Chief Executive Officer of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), the leading umbrella organization of Jewish communities around the world from 2013-2019, and as Chief Executive Officer of World ORT (WO), the world’s largest Jewish education and training organization from 1999-2013. Mr. Singer traveled extensively throughout the world, visiting Jewish communities in more than 60 countries while enhancing the WJC and WO’s global diplomatic and educational presence. He has participated in meetings with presidents and prime ministers of various nations, as well as prominent government, business, faith and civil society leaders, including Pope Francis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, International Red Cross President Peter Maurer and many others. Currently, Mr. Singer serves as Chairman & CEO of Spero Impact Solutions, Chairman of SASA Setton and Chairman of Alumot Or, as well as other public positions. Mr. Singer has also spoken at, and participated in, many high-profile events on behalf of the world Jewry including at the United Nations in New York, addressing a demonstration outside the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre in Kyiv, international conferences of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Organization of American States (OAS) counter-terrorism sessions, and the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s (ICEJ) Feast of Tabernacles, among others. On behalf of Diaspora Jewish communities, Mr. Singer regularly engaged with Israeli government officials and other institutions in the Jewish state. Robert Singer was born in Ukraine in 1956 and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He graduated from Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 1976 with a degree in Political Science and History. Mr. Singer served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for eleven years and left the army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1987. Mr. Singer spent twelve years with the Office of the Prime Minister in Israel in a number of senior posts. In 1996, he received a Master’s degree in management engineering from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Sima Vaknin Gill is a former intelligence officer in the Israeli air force, served as the Chief Censor of the state of Israel and is a former Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. Sima is an Expert in Intelligence work, Data and research-based action and campaigns, the De-legitimization campaign against Israel, the BDS movement and Antisemitism. Sima joined the Israel Air Force in 1984 and served for more than 20 years in various positions in the Research and Operational Intelligence departments. During that time she was involved in dozens of complex operations, in low and high-intensity conflicts and directly oversaw major operational and intelligence initiatives in the Air Force and the IDF. In 2005 Sima was appointed Chief Censor of Israel by the Defense Minister and IDF Chief of Staff, charged with the protection of Israel’s security secrets and interests and balancing that with freedom of expression. After retiring in July 2016, she was appointed by the Government as the Ministry of Strategic Affair Director-General; she formulated the strategy of the campaign against delegitimization and BDS, created and ran the Task Force in the ministry and oversaw all of the ministry’s activities, foremost among them, its operations to counter delegitimization and BDS.  She also established Concert – a joint Project between the Israeli government and Jewry. Sima holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations and an MA in National Security Studies from the National Defense College.

Dr. Misha Galperin is President of Zandafi Philanthropy Advisors, an international consulting firm working with philanthropists, foundations and non profits to help develop their Vision, Mission and Strategic Plans and Objectives. Zandafi LLC also provides assistance in implementation stages through offering board and staff training, recruitment and ongoing consulting in the areas of organizational development and restructuring, marketing and communications, program and grant allocation and due diligence, and financial resource development. Dr. Galperin is a clinical psychologist and  was in private practice and worked with a number of institutions before assuming executive management and leadership roles with social service, educational and community organizations He was COO of the largest US refugee resettlement agency and of UJA – Federation of New York, the largest local charity in the US. He was also the CEO of the second oldest and one of the largest settlement houses in the US, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and President of the world’s largest Jewish non profit — The Jewish Agency for Israel where he was responsible for thousands of employees worldwide and for generating revenues of $1 million/day. He is the author of two books and numerous professional publications and has spoken widely on philanthropy, leadership development and financial resource development topics.

Elan S. Carr was appointed by the President of the United States and the Secretary of State to the office of United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. In that capacity, Mr. Carr served as the senior diplomatic representative of the United States and the senior advisor to Secretary Pompeo on the subject of anti-Semitism, and he directed U.S. policy and programs aimed at combating it.  During his two years in office, he negotiated groundbreaking agreements with foreign governments; convened the first-ever U.S. Government-sponsored conference on combating online hate; drove the establishment of important new policies on anti-Zionism, anti-Israel discrimination, and campus anti-Semitism; significantly broadened the global consensus on the definition of anti-Semitism; focused the attention of law enforcement leaders across international jurisdictions on the importance of hate crimes prosecutions; regularly met with foreign leaders, often in foreign capitals, to drive U.S. policy priorities; launched philo-Semitism initiatives in multiple countries; and conducted an aggressive and global public diplomacy campaign, including by delivering more than 180 speeches to large gatherings of stakeholders throughout the world and conducting numerous press interviews.  He was voted by Congress to be given the rank of Ambassador. Prior to joining the Trump Administration, Mr. Carr prosecuted violent felony crimes for more than a decade as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County.  He prosecuted murders, attempted murders, and cases involving Southern California’s most notorious criminal street gangs.  While assigned to a special victim unit, he focused on sexual assault, domestic violence, and child molestation cases.  A number of his cases garnered media attention.  He was also one of LA County’s few specially-designated animal cruelty prosecutors. Mr. Carr is an officer in the United States Army Reserve and he has received multiple awards for his two decades of military service.  In 2003-04, he spent nearly a year on military deployment in Iraq.  He helped to lead a joint anti-terrorism team in life-saving missions throughout the country, and he prosecuted terrorists who attacked U.S. troops.  He was also part of the Coalition Provisional Authority’s efforts to establish an independent Iraqi judiciary and helped to train Iraqi judges on constitutional law and criminal defense. As the son of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Mr. Carr speaks Hebrew and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic.  While in Iraq, he met with remnants of the Jewish community there and worked with them to preserve Jewish texts and other assets.  He regularly led Jewish services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. In 2014, Mr. Carr was the Republican nominee for Congress in California’s 33rd Congressional District.  He finished first out of 18 candidates in a multi-party, top-two, open primary; and in the general election, he out-performed GOP registration in his district by 18 points.  He received the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Gun” status — its highest rating — and was endorsed by the House leadership, the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs, and the previous two Republican nominees for President of the United States. Mr. Carr was

Rev. Johnnie Moore is a popular speaker and acclaimed human rights and religious freedom activist best known for his consequential work at the intersection of faith and foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Moore is the president of JDA Worldwide, a top integrated marketing and public relations agency and the president of The Congress of Christian Leaders, a representative voice for more than 600 million Evangelicals worldwide. Rev. Moore is also a licensed minister who is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s prestigious “medal of valor.” Moore was twice appointed by the president of the United States to the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom and in 2020 Moore was named one of America’s 10 most influential religious leaders.

Father Patrick Desbois is the president and founder of Yahad – In Unum, a global humanitarian organization, dedicated to identifying and commemorating the sites of Jewish and Roma mass graves in Europe. He is also the Head of the academic council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. He is the grandson of a WWII French prisoner held in the Rawa Ruska camp on the Poland-Ukraine border. In 2004, he began to research the story of the Jews, Roma and other victims murdered in Eastern Europe during WWII by the Nazi mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen. A professor at Georgetown University, in the faculty for the Center for Jewish Civilization. He also served as director of the Episcopal Committee for Catholic-Judeo Relations from 1999 until 2016, under the auspices of the French Conference of Bishops. He is the author of “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews”, Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and “The Fabric of Terrorists: Into the Secrets of Daesh”, based on his investigation of the Yazidi genocide in Iraq. His work through Yahad has been recognized through numerous awards and public commentary throughout the world. Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of World War II’s bloodiest chapters. In 2017 he was awarded the Lantos Foundation’s Human Rights Prize. The Simon Wiesenthal Center presented the Jewish Medal of Valor to Father Patrick Desbois for his commitment to religious tolerance and cooperation. He received the Légion d’honneur for his work on the Holocaust.

Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt is the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland, a vibrant Conservative synagogue of over 600 families he founded in 1988. Rabbi Weinblatt has held a number of leadership positions, locally and nationally, including having served as the President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America, as Director of Israel Policy and Advocacy for the Rabbinical Assembly, and as chair of the JNF’s Rabbis for Israel. Most recently, Rabbi Weinblatt formed the Zionist Rabbinic Coalition, a coalition of rabbis from all denominations which seeks to encourage rabbis committed to strengthening ties between Jews of the Diaspora and Israel. Rabbi Weinblatt has given the opening prayer at sessions of the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, both houses of the Maryland State legislature, the inaugurations of Maryland’s Governors, as well as numerous other public gatherings. His dynamic leadership, innovative approach to Judaism and reputation as an outstanding teacher and speaker has been recognized through a number of honors.  He was chosen by The Forward as one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis”, as the Greater Washington area ORT “Man of the Year,” a “Pillar of the Community” by the JCRC of Greater Washington, and in surveys conducted by The Washington Jewish Week, as the “Best Rabbi in Washington” by its readers for multiple years. Rabbi Weinblatt has written many articles, poems and Op-Ed pieces, many of which highlight his work as an outspoken and passionate advocate and spokesman for Israel and Jewish causes.  He is the author of, “God, Prayer and Spirituality,” a compilation of his sermons and articles, and “Living in the Shadow of Death:  A Rabbi Copes with Cancer.”  Rabbi Weinblatt and his wife, Symcha, have four adult children and seven grandchildren.

The Honorable Irwin Cotler is Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime parliamentarian. He is a member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, Canada’s Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and member of the Organization of American States (OAS) Expert Legal Panel on Venezuela. He is an international human rights lawyer, counsel to political prisoners and has been referred to as “Counsel for the Oppressed” and “Freedoms Counsel.” He is an officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, an an Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Quebec’s highest honor, a Member of the Privy Council of Canada, and Avocat emeritus of the Quebec Bar.

Dr. Friedman holds leadership roles that serve both the Jewish and larger communities. She is the head of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) in the San Francisco Bay Area – one of the largest and most renowned family service institutions in the U.S. She is an expert in social policy and programming for diverse populations, the provision of health and human services, as well as the development of innovative social enterprise models. She has served on various local, state, national and international commissions, including as Commissioner of the San Francisco Human Services Commission. In addition to her professional leadership positions, Dr. Friedman also serves as President of the Board of the Koret Foundation, which devotes its resources to elevating the quality of life of all who live in the Bay Area and to supporting the global Jewish community. The foundation supports organizations that seek to increase Jewish identification and involvement, strengthen ties between Israel and the Bay Area and combat antisemitism. Dr. Friedman is also widely acclaimed for her expertise on Holocaust and genocide education. She is the editor of the English-language edition of Rywka’s Diary (HarperCollins), which has been published in more than a dozen languages and is the subject of a forthcoming film.

Dina Porat, a Tel Aviv University professor of Jewish history, served as head of the Department of Jewish History, the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is now head of the Kantor Center for the study of Contemporary European Jewry (that includes the Moshe Kantor Database for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism), and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Since 2010, Professor Porat has served as the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem. Professor Porat has written and edited a large number of books and articles on antisemitism and the Holocaust. Her biography of Abba Kovner, published by Stanford University Press, won the 2010 National Jewish book Award, and her most recent book on Jewish revenge after World War II won the Bahat Prize for the best Hebrew research in 2018. She won the 2012 Raoul Wallenberg medal, was a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, Venice International University and the Hebrew University, and was awarded Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities best teacher award for 2004. Professor Porat was a member of the Israeli Foreign Ministry delegations to four UN world conferences and served as the academic advisor of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, now the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (2005-2010).

With André Azoulay, history meets the present and embraces the future. Born in Essaouira when it was called Mogador, André Azoulay has not forgotten a childhood when Jews and Muslims lived with exceptional and resilient closeness. With Katia, his wife, he made the resurrection of Essaouira the challenge of his life. Thanks to the power of their common dream, the City of the Trade Winds became the flagship of a Judeo-Muslim revival. In 1974, André Azoulay created in Paris, “Identity and Dialogue”, a movement of Sephardic Jewish intellectuals in which for the first time Jewish voices were raised to call for a just and lasting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, living side by side in two states equal in rights and dignity. After a long and brilliant career in Paris with Banque Paribas (1967-1990), this commitment reached its peak with the appointment of André Azoulay as Advisor to Kings Hassan II (1991-1999) and Mohammed VI since 1999. In charge of Economic and Financial Affairs, André Azoulay notably contributed to the implementation of the liberal reform program successfully applied by the Kingdom of Morocco since the beginning of the 90s to promote the international influence of Morocco and to promote national and international private investment, the engine of growth of the Moroccan economy. Deeply involved in the consolidation and expansion of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, he has made his contribution whenever necessary to the monitoring of peace processes in the Middle East and to the consolidation of a culture of mutual respect and trust between Islam and Judaism. Founding member of the United Nations High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations, André Azoulay chaired the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation (2008-2015), the Foundation of Three Cultures and Three Religions (Seville), as well as the Pierre Mendès France Institute (Paris) and the Edmond Amran El Maleh Foundation (Rabat). He was a founding member of the C-100 Davos Forum for the Dialogue of Civilizations and Religions and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Shimon Peres Center for Peace. He also serves as President of Project ALADDIN’s Committee on Conscience and Honorary President of Association Mimouna. André Azoulay received an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev “as a Jew whose roots lie in Morocco, who has devoted his time and energy to a life-long quest for coexistence between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East and Northern Africa.” In 2017, at the 20th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, André Azoulay was honored with the American Sephardi Federation’s Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his remarkable life’s work bridging religious divides through artistic and other cultural endeavors. More recently, André Azoulay was awarded the Medallas de Oro de Andalucía (“Gold Medal of Andalusia”), presented in recognition of his “exemplary commitment to solidarity and harmony and for his pioneering approach at the head of the Foundation of Three Cultures, through which Morocco, Spain and Andalusia have been telling the world, for over twenty years, the art of living

Mario Adolfo Búcaro Flores is a career diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guatemala from February 2022 to January 2024. He previously served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Guatemala to the United Mexican States, State of Israel, Republic of Bulgaria, and Republic of Cyprus. During his Israel posting, Búcaro oversaw his country’s historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the opening of the Guatemalan Embassy there. A Lawyer and Notary, he graduated from the Rafael Landívar Catholic University of Guatemala, and was formerly Professor and Dean of the Consular Corps accredited in Guatemala, former Honorary Consul of Georgia in Guatemala, former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of San Pablo de Guatemala, former President of the Board of Directors of the International Mediation Center of Guatemala and former Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan-Mexican Chamber of Commerce. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal and Social Sciences and continued his legal training with a postgraduate degree in Private International Law from the University of Salamanca in Spain and a Master’s Degree in Corporate Law and Competitiveness from the National University of San Carlos de Guatemala. The Gusi Peace Prize International Foundation awarded the Gusi Peace Prize International 2019 to Búcaro for his contributions to world peace, respect for human life, dignity, and progress.

Valentina Leskaj currently serves as Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Albanian Center for Population and Development, which she founded in 1995. She was Member of the Albanian Parliament from 2002 to 2017, when she decided to leave politics. Valentina Leskaj held important leadership roles, among others as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and a Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commissions for Education and Media and Parliamentary Commission for Country Integration. She has been Deputy Chair of the EU-Albania, Inter- parliamentary Committee on Stabilization Association for many years. She was head of Albanian Parliament in Council of Europe from 2013-2017 and Reporter of the Council of Europe for Moldova. Alongside her political career, Valentina Leskaj has also been active in academia and civil society activities, authoring many publications on politics, human rights, gender, civil society, population and development issues. From 2013 to 2017 she served as President of the Albania – Israel Friendship Group in the Albanian Parliament.

Lord John Mann currently serves as Her Majesty’s Government Independent Adviser on Antisemitism. John Mann was the elected Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Bassetlaw from June 2001 until 2019. In the summer of 2005, he was appointed Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism (APPG). John has commissioned two major All-Party Inquiries into Antisemitism and a further inquiry into Electoral Conduct. In July 2019, John Mann stepped down as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism when he was appointed the Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism in one of Theresa May’s final acts as Prime Minister. In 2008, John established the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA). In 2010, he chaired the Football Association’s Task Force on Antisemitism and Islamophobia in football. John Mann joined the House of Lords in October 2019 as Lord Mann of Holbeck Moor. In May 2009, John received the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC’s) Jan Karski Award in recognition of his commitment and work in fighting antisemitism. Before entering Parliament, he worked for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AEEU), the TUC and TULO. He is a former Chair of Labour Students and just prior to his election he was involved in running his family’s business. Since his time in student politics, John has been vocal in his condemnation of all forms of racism and intolerance and has worked tirelessly to combat it.

Lord Eric Pickles was appointed as the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues in September 2015. Lord Pickles works closely with the wide range of Holocaust academics, survivors and educational and social organizations in the UK. Along with the former Labour Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, he co-chairs the United Kingdom’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He was made a Life Peer in 2018. Lord Eric Pickles was appointed as the UK’s next Conservative Party nominee to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments in July 2019 and was subsequently appointed as Chair following an open competition, in line with the Cabinet Office Governance Code, taking up the role in April 2020. His appointment was approved following pre-appointment scrutiny by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee. First elected to Parliament in 1992 he retired as MP for Brentwood and Ongar at the 2017 general election. He was previously Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

Uwe Becker is the German state of Hesse’s State Secretary for European Affairs and State Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight Against Antisemitism. A former Mayor and Treasurer of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Mr. Becker also serves as President of the German-Israeli Society. Mr. Becker is a member of the supervisory boards of the energy company Mainova AG, the traffic company Verkehrsgesellschaft VGF, the Trade fair Company Messe Frankfurt GmbH, and the Stadtwerke Frankfurt Holding, as well as of the airport company Fraport AG. He is also President of the Friends of Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Germany and Governor on the Board of Governors of the TAU, the Honorary President of the German-French Society, and a Member of the Executive Board of the German-American Steuben-Schurz Society, as well as a member of several other associations, foundations and institutions. Mr. Becker is a practicing Roman Catholic and he and his wife are the parents of twins. He graduated from the “Ziehenschule” in Frankfurt in 1989. After completing his basic military service, he trained as a banker at Frankfurter Sparkasse, where he worked until 2004.

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emeritus. She is a noted scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture. Professor Wisse is currently the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. Her books on literary subjects include an edition of Jacob Glatstein’s two-volume fictional memoir, The Glatstein Chronicles, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Literature and Culture, and A Little Love in Big Manhattan. She is also the author of two political studies, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews and Jews and Power. Her most recent book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, was recently published by Princeton University Press.

Martin Oliner was born in 1947 in a German DP camp. A child of Holocaust survivors, he was the first member of his family to graduate from high school and became a successful attorney, businessman, and self-made philanthropist. Devoted to strengthening the ties between the United States and Israel, he currently serves as Co-President of the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi, Chair of Israel Bonds New York Region, Committee member of the Jewish Agency, Board member of B’nai B’rith, and a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council for a term expiring January 15, 2026. Martin received a J.D. and an L.L.M. in Taxation with honors from New York University Law School, and is a member of Phi Betta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has taught at New York University Law School, Touro College School of Law, New York Law School and the School of Contemporary Studies at CUNY. As an attorney, he has engaged in private practice since 1972 and has worked extensively with multinational financial institutions to restructure a wide variety of distressed investments in locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Since 1992, Mr. Oliner has served full time as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of First Lincoln Holdings, an insurance and real estate holding company. He has also served as a Director of Regency Equities, Asian Oceanic Capital Corporation, and New Navy LDA. A passionate proponent of education, Martin served as one of six members of the Executive Board of Touro College and has been a trustee for over thirty years. In that time, he helped guide the College through significant, long term growth including the development of graduate and professional programs alongside an extensive building program with new campuses in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, a medical campus in Harlem, and new affiliated campuses in Moscow, Berlin and Israel. He is also a founder of the San Francisco School of Osteopathic Medicine and has served as a director of the New York School of Podiatry. He is the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of The Jewish Word, a monthly newspaper. His writings have been published extensively in The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, and New York Jewish Week. Locally, Martin was elected to the maximum three terms as the Mayor of the Village of Lawrence, New York, where he served from 2010- 2016. He also served as President of his synagogue, Shaaray Tefila of Lawrence.

Eitan Neishlos is a pioneering businessman and philanthropist, with over 20 years of experience of working and investing in South Africa, Australia, and Israel. From bringing banking to the unbanked to making it easier to get paid than ever before, he has repeatedly proven that business and progress go hand in hand. In order to devote more time and effort to his philanthropy, he has founded the Neishlos Foundation, which operates in Australia and Israel. He is also the founder of Neishlos Capital. In New South Wales, Australia, he is the chairman of Courage to Care, the Associate Chairman of the Liberal Friends of Israel, and a member of the Jewish Board of Deputies. In Israel, he is the director of the Israel Wildlife Hospital. Eitan’s great inspiration in his charitable work is his grandmother, “Babushka Tamara,” a Holocaust survivor who was saved by a Christian family, the Chodosevitchs, from the Nazis in Belarus, after the rest of her family had been murdered. Her story has inspired him in everything he does, from his investments to his philanthropy and beyond. Eitan’s interest in philanthropy has seen him take active roles in a variety of nonprofit organizations that align with his main areas of concern. He is a mentor and patron at JNF Future, the Chairman of Courage to Care, the Associate chair of the Liberal Friends of Israel in Australia, the Director of the Israeli Wildlife Hospital, and the Deputy and Director of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.

As principal of Keystone Equities, Jonathan R. Zamir is responsible for all major decisions related to deal sourcing, debt financing, co-investment opportunities, and major transactional matters. His role also involves detailed oversight of all activities of the company in addition to the day to day responsibilities of running the firm. Prior to founding Keystone, Jonathan began his real estate career as Portfolio Manager for The Moinian Group, among the nation’s premier RE firms. He later joined Infinity Real Estate as its Director of Acquisitions where he participated in negotiations, structuring, and closing of all of the firm’s transactions. This included the acquisition and disposition of office, multi-family, hotel and retail assets across the US, valued at well over $500 million. Jonathan graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He also earned a Graduate Certificate from NYU’s School of Continuing Professional Studies with a focus in real estate.

Ezra Gontownik is the founder and managing partner of private equity firm Rockpost Capital, a former investor at Berkshire Partners, and the co-founder and president of Kol HaNearim, a nonprofit supporting at-risk Israeli youth.

Jordana Yechiel is a British ex-Vogue journalist and current creative design director for a portfolio of international hotels. She is also a board member and CFO of Century Plaza Los Angeles, board member of the 8 Project, and a patron of art museums in Los Angeles and London.

David Gonski is Chancellor of the University of New South Wales and Chairman of the UNSW Foundation Ltd. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Barrenjoey Capital Partners Group Holdings Pty Limited, Chairman of Sydney Airport, and Chairman of Levande Living. He is also Member of the Board of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Non-Executive Member of LeapFrog Investment’s Global Leadership Council, Member of the Commonwealth Government’s Competition Taskforce Expert Advisory Panel, Patron of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Raise Foundation, and Founding Panel Member of Adara Partners. He was previously Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Chair of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools for the Commonwealth Government of Australia, and President of the Art Gallery of NSW Trust. He was also a Member of the Takeovers Panel, the ASIC External Advisory Panel and Director of Singapore Airlines Limited, the Westfield Group and Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Chairman of Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd, the Australian Securities Exchange Ltd, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Guardians of the Future Fund, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Board of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School, and Investec Bank (Australia) Ltd.

Dr. Ron Weiser, a dentist from Sydney and son of Holocaust survivors, has been involved in Jewish communal activities for more than 35 years, including leadership roles in B’nei Akiva and the State Zionist Council of NSW. As president of the Zionist Federation of Australia for the past decade, he has focused on Jewish education, aliyah, and fundraising for Israel. He also played a key role in addressing issues related to the 1997 Maccabiah tragedy and secured shlichim for Australian youth education. In 2005, he received the inaugural Herzl Award.

Born in 1953 in Sydney to Jewish refugees who fled Europe before the war, Roth has lived in Australia his whole life. Married to Charmaine, Roth has three children and seven grandchildren, with another on the way. Roth has held two career positions — as a lawyer at a leading national firm from 1977 to 1992, and since 1993, expanding his late father’s property investment portfolio with hist brother. A passionate supporter of Israel and Keren Hayesod, Roth began fundraising in 1979, became chairman of the NSW campaign in the late 1990s, and the Australian campaign in the early 2000s. Roth continues to support KH-UIA and various other Israel and local Jewish organizations.

Dr. Orna Triguboff is the founder and spiritual teacher of the Neshama Life organization.

She has been a meditation and yoga teacher for more 20 years, and was trained by Hatha yoga teacher Acharya Upendra Roy. Triguboff has a Ph.D. in Kabbalah and is an ordained rabbi by the Jewish Renewal movement. She is passionate about synthesizing ancient wisdom with nature and scientific findings, and she regularly teaches courses in Australia and internationally in Kabbalah study and meditation.