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

Yitzchak Santis is Chief Programs Officer for NGO Monitor.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ambassador Yoram Ettinger is the former Council General in Houston, Texas, and former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s embassy in Washington, D.C. He now works as a consultant on U.S.-Israel relations and Middle East politics for Knesset members and cabinet members.

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