Sarit Packer
Sarit Packer, together with her husband Itamar Srulovich, co-founded Middle Eastern restaurants Honey & Co. and Honey & Smoke: Grill House and delis Honey & Co. Daily and Honey & Spice: Food Store. The couple have written four cookbooks. Image © Patricia Niven
Tomer Amedi
Tomer Amedi is the head chef at the Palomar restaurant in London. He was born and raised in Jerusalem where food was always a big part of his life.
Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Rathbones Folio and Waterstones Book of the Year prizes and in April 2025 was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Books […]
Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist, author, and political analyst. He studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in 1995 he joined Haaretz, where he served on the editorial board until 2016. His books include the New York Time bestseller My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.
Ned Temko
Ned Temko is a journalist and author who has reported from Beirut, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg. A former editor of the Jewish Chronicle, he later became Chief Political Correspondent for The Observer. He has written political biographies, including one on Menachem Begin.
Robert Harris
Robert Harris is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television.
Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette is celebrated comedy writer and novelist.
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax OBE is an American-British actress, comedian, writer, television presenter, and mental health campaigner.
Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.
Toby Mott
Toby Mott is a British artist, designer, and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists’ collective that was active in the 1980s, and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico.
Vivien Goldman
Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster and musician. A Londoner, she has lived in Paris and Jamaica and now resides in New York. Revenge of the She-Punks, Goldman’s award-winning sixth book, won Rough Trade’s Book of the Year in the US and the UK, and earned the Best Music Journalist Award from Germany’s Reeperbahn Festival.
Charles Shaar Murray
Charles Shaar Murray is a former NME journalist, broadcaster and the author of several books including The Guitar Geek Dossier.