Leon Duval
Leon Duval taught and consulted in the area of strategic financial management. Now retired, he devotes his time to guiding visitors through Yad Vashem and reading and writing about Jewish history and contemporary issues affecting both Israel and the Jewish people.
Stella Darvey Joory
Originally from Baghdad, she arrived in Israel with her family as a refugee at the age of five. They later moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she spent her formative years in a multicultural environment. She pursued her passion for literature and philosophy at Sussex University, earning a BA in English Literature and Philosophy and a […]
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann was French filmmaker a resistance fighter, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah, which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, .
Sarah Hurwitz
Sarah Hurwitz served as a White House speechwriter from 2009 to 2017, first as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Hurwitz is the author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life—in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There), which […]
Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is the author of If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and co-editor with Padma Viswanathan of the Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories, both out in 2026. Image © Camila Franca Photography
Sandra Myers
Sandra returned to learning as a mature student back in the 1980s and gained her M.A in Jewish studies at University College London mentored by two great scholars of Jewish History, the late Vivian Lipman and David Ceserani. She then became a Board member of the Spiro Institute followed by the London Jewish Cultural Centre […]
Peter Hacker
Peter Hacker is Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy, St. John’s College, Oxford, UK.
Ghadir Hani
Ghadir Hani is a social changemaker and peace activist. For many years, she lived in the Negev and was involved in promoting peace and the rights of Bedouin women. Ghadir is an active member of various organizations in the field and facilitates dialogues between Israelis and Palestinians.
Dror Rubin
Dror Rubin is a social changemaker and peace activist. For many years, he has worked to promote trust between Jews and Arabs, with an emphasis on working in Israel’s mixed cities. He mediates and facilitates dialogue groups for various organizations and associations.
Michael Arditti
Michael Arditti is an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006) The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2015), Of Men and Angels (2018), The Anointed (2020), […]
John Hilary
John Hilary is an honorary professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, and previously author of From Refugees to Royalty: The Remarkable Story of the Messel Family of Nymans (Peter Owen, 2021).
Thomas L Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and, columnist—the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of seven bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.