Shmuel Shattach, the Director of Dor – The Center for Religious Education, committed to moderation and tolerance. Dor works to imbue the next generation with a commitment to Torah, together with openness to meet the challenges of the world, working in policy, community, education and in creating communal language. Shmuel is also a member of the Public Council of The Second Authority for Television and Radio. In his former position he served as the CEO of Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, A Modern Orthodox Movement, for 17 years. Prior to that he worked in the formal and informal education system, was a parliamentary assistant in the Knesset in matters of education, religion and state, and was an envoy in the U.S. for some years. Shmuel holds a B.A. in education, another B.A. in logistics, an M.A. in public management and policy studies for senior directors from Tel-Aviv University, and a graduate of the Directors’ program. Lives in Lod, married, and has 6 children.

Rodayna, the Representative of Marcia’s Light Foundation for Mediation for underprivileged populations, a lecturer at Al Qasemi College, and a facilitator and organizational consultant at the Ajami Center in Jaffa. She participates in conferences and gives lectures in the field of education with a focus on Arab society in Israel. Previously, she was a lecturer in Kiryat Ono in the field of social sciences, a district instructor in the Central District of the Ministry of Education, worked in the educational center for hospitalized children at Schneider Hospital and established and managed the first center for autism in the Arab sector in the Central District. She holds a bachelor’s degree in special education, a master’s degree in child development, a doctorate from Bar Ilan University and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hebrew University. She received a certificate in the development of instructional skills and trained as a manager. She lives in Kafr Qassem. She is a co-founder of the CoLab initiative: Koda.

Anat, the Vice CEO of the Ideological Center of the Berl Katznelson Foundation. In this position, Anat initiated many projects, among them, the hate report (a technological platform monitoring hate discourse in Hebrew on the web), the Beeri program dealing with Israeli social issues, and has established an annual conference for social entrepreneurs. Before her work at the foundation, Anat was a social campaign manager, a journalist and led social protests, among them, the strollers walk – that succeeded in expanding the Israel compulsory education act to the age of 3. Anat has a B.A. in political science from Tel-Aviv University, and is currently working on her M.A. in democracy studies at The Open University. She lives in Tel Mond.

Inbar Yehezkeli Baliliusin, in her last position, was the CEO of the Democratic Institute. Before that, she served as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services and served as a senior advisor to the Minister of Finance on social issues. Previously, she was a senior professional advisor to the Ministers of Welfare and Social Services; Director General of the Assistance Center for Victims of Sexual Assault in Jerusalem; and the Attorney General and Director of the Legal Department of the Association of Assistance Centers for Victims of Sexual Assault in Israel. Inbar is a member of the Executive Committee of the Susan Dellal Center for Dance and Theater. She holds a BA and MA in Law fom the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives in Beit Zayit.

Idan, the founder and CEO of Insight Sparks. He is a social entrepreneur working to create educational technological tools to reduce social gaps and problems. He founded Insight Sparks, a social venture, aimed at reducing racism and discrimination among children, teenagers and people working in education. Idan is a product manager (software), has worked with startups and large companies and helped designing and developing their business dreams so to create innovative systems and applications. As part of the connection between the high-tech world and the social world, Idan is leading, as a mentor, product development processes that become learning tools of values and 21st century proficiencies for teenagers from the periphery. Idan co-founded Bekivun Haruach, a project that won the Social Entrepreneurship Award of Enosh-The Israeli Mental Health Association and The Minister of Health Shield Award. Idan holds BSc with honors, in brain science, from Bar-Ilan University, and graduated the Social Accelerator program for 8200-unit alumni. He lives in Ya’ad.

Dr. Moshe Leiba, Chief Pedagogy and R&D Officer at World Ort Kadima Mada, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Systems at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv -Yafo. Prior to this roles, he was deputy director of education and chief of Educational Innovation Department at Holon Municipality and in charge of the informal education in the city. Prior to this position, Moshe was the superintendent of ICT, innovation and pedagogic entrepreneurship of the Tel-Aviv District in the Ministry of Education, a lecturer and researcher at Tel Aviv University, Levinsky Colllege of Education, and in research programs of EU. Moshe holds a B.Sc.TE, in electrical engineering, M.A. in science education and a Ph.D in education from Tel Aviv University. Moshe won prizes and scholarships and published academic articles and many research reports. He lives in Beit Hashmonai.

Michal, a Director of Engineering at Yotpo. Previously, she was the development manager at Micro Focus and founder and volunteer manager of Hakvutza—an applicative group that was established in 2015 for crowdfunding to help the community. In addition, Michal worked as a software developer at Amdocs, in Israel and in Colorado. Michal holds a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Bar-Ilan University, a B.A. in psychology from The Open University, and she is a graduate of the Gvanim and Kolot programs. She lives in Ganei Yohanan. She is a co-founder of the Co.Lab initiative: Koda.