2021 Impact Report: Our Leadership | The Jewish Agency - U.S.

2021 Impact

The Jewish Agency for Israel Leadership

Board of Governors

Michael Siegal
Chairman of the Board of Governors

Yaakov Hagoel
Acting Chairman of the Executive

Yaron Shavit
Deputy Chairman of the Executive

Beth Kieffer Leonard
Chairwoman of the Budget and Finance Committee

The Jewish Federations of North America / United Israel Appeal

Caryn Rosen Adelman
Diana Anderson
David Barish
Shiva Beck
Debbie Berman
Richard N. Bernstein
Alisa Doctoroff
Dede S. Feinberg
Martine Fleishman
Betsy Gidwitz
Seth R. Greenberg
Harley Gross
Andrew J. Groveman
Robert Hertzberg
Stephen Hoffman
Sharon Janks
Lori Klinghoffer

Mark F. Levy
Julie Platt
Heschel Raskas
Roni Rubenstein
Richard V. Sandler
Jeffrey A. Schoenfeld
Cindy D. Shapira
David F. Sherman
Bruce P. Sholk
David Silvers
Joan Stern
Dorothy Tananbaum
Michael Teplitsky
Laurence S. Tisdale
David W. Weiner
Mark Wilf
Fred E. Zimmerman

Honorary Members:

Charles Goodman
Arlene Kaufman
Irwin H. Levy
Richie Pearlstone
Charles Ratner
Jane Sherman
Carole Solomon
James Tisch

Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal

Yohanna Arbib–Perugia
Ronni Benatoff
David Braginsky
Harold Finger
Michael Frankel
Nadia Guth Biasini
Penny Hurst
Karen James
Robert Kaplan
Warren Kimel
David Koschitzky
Phillip Krawitz

Bruce Leboff
Mark Leibler
Abrao Lowenthal
Steven Lowy
Avy Lugassy
Jaap Meijers
Sergio Oberlander
Menno Paktor
Stephen Pincus
Dan Serfaty
Thomas D. Zweifel

Honorary Members:

Julia Koschitzky Z”L
Danny Liwerant
Harvey Wolfe

World Zionist Organization

Collette Avital
Yarden Avriel
Meir Azari
Raheli Baratz-Rix
Sergio Berman
Yigal Bibi
Harvey Blitz
Jacob Blumenthal
Kenneth Bob
Yigal Brand
Steve Burg
Gillian Caplin
Chayim Cohen
Haya Cohen
Alon Davidi
Gabriel Degen
David Eliezrie
David Even-Tzur
Karma Feinstein-Cohen
Helena Glaser
Gael Grunewald
Esther Haba
Dina Hahn
Yizhar Hess
Rick Jacobs
Silvio Joskowicz
Charles Kaufman
Shmuel Kogan

David Korenfeld
Danny Lamm
Pesach Lerner
Masha Lubelsky
Shimon Margolin
Nerya Meir
Daryl Messinger
Dudu Mor
Esther Mor
Dror Morag
Lea Muehlstein
Ifat Ovadia Luski
Doron Peretz
Esther Renzer
Steve Rosedale
Marina Rozenberg Koritny
Philip Scheim
Zeev Schwartz
Haim Shine
Alan Silverstein
Michal Slawny-Cababia
Rhoda Smolow
Sondra Sokal
Jesse Sultanik
Yossi Tzadok
Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman
Inna Zilbergretz

Honorary Members:

Avraham Duvdevani
Marlene Post
Kurt Rothschild
Natan Sharansky

Past Chairpersons

Board of Governors

Charles Horowitz Ratner 2014-2017
James S. Tisch 2011-2014
Richard L. Pearlstone 2007-2011
Carole Solomon 2003-2007
Alex Grass, Z”L 1999-2003
Charles Goodman 1995-1999
Mendel Kaplan, Z”L 1987-1995
Jerold Hoffberger, Z”L 1983-1987
Max Fisher, Z”L 1971-1983, Founding Chair

Executive

Isaac Herzog 2018-2021
Natan Sharansky 2009-2018
Zeev Bielski 2005-2009
Sallai Meridor 1999-2005
Avraham Burg 1995-1999
Simcha Dinitz, Z”L 1987-1994
Arye L. Dultzin, Z”L 1978-1987
Joseph Almogi, Z”L 1976-1978
Pinchas Sapir, Z”L 1974-1975
Arye L. Pincus, Z”L 1965-1973
Moshe Sharett, Z”L 1961-1965
Zalman Shazar, Z”L 1956-1961
Berl Locker, Z”L 1948-1956
David Ben-Gurion, Z”L 1935-1948
Arthur Ruppin, Z”L 1933-1935

Senior Management

Amira Ahronoviz
Director General & CEO

Josh Schwarcz
Secretary General

Moshe Ashirie
Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Director General

Lara Bashkoff
Global Chief Marketing Officer

Bosmat Chelouche
Legal Advisor

Daniel Elbaum
President and CEO of Jewish Agency International Development, and Head of North America

Shay Felber
Director of the Aliyah and Absorption Unit, and Deputy Director General

Shivi Greenfield
Chief Strategy Officer and Deputy Director General

Shelley Kedar
Director of the Connecting the Jewish People Unit

Danyelle Neuman
Chief Sales Strategy Officer

Yehuda Setton
Chief Operating and Programs Officer and Deputy Director General

Moshe Shiff
Deputy Director General, Human Resources & Administration

Dana Zacks
Director of the Israeli Society Unit

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