Speakers
Adi Altschuler
Social entrepreneur; founder of Krembo Wings and Inclu
Israel
Alon Gonen
Entrepreneur, co-founder of fintech company Plus500, and a leading figure in Israeli high-tech
Israel
Amit Edri
Brig. Gen. (Res.),
Chairman of Safe School
Former Director General, Ministry of Education
Israel
Dr. Amnon Eldar
Director General of the AMIT Network
Israel
Ashraf Jabbour
CEO of Acadyium, an umbrella organization established by Yad Hanadiv to advance academic excellence among Arab youth
Israel
Arik Wirzburger
Head of the Education Administration, Jerusalem Municipality
Israel
Branit Golan-Yosubash
Deputy Secretary General of the Israel Teachers Union and Chair of its Jerusalem Branch
Israel
Prof. Carmit Altman
Machado Chair in Human Modifiability; Head of the Child Development Program and the Research Knowledge Translation Unit, Bar-Ilan University
Israel
Carmit Harush
Director of the Jerusalem District and of the Jerusalem City District (Manhi), Israel Ministry of Education
Israel
Prof. Chen Schechter
Head of the MOFET Institute – The National Institute for Research and Development in Education; Bar-Ilan University
Israel
Dalit Stauber
Former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Education, faculty member at the Mandel Foundation and Ono Academic College, and strategic consultant
Israel
Efrat Shaprut
Director
JDC-Israel Unlimited
Resilience and Mental Health
Israel
Eli Paley
Chairman of The Institute for Strategy and Haredi Policy
Israel
Dr. Hadar Abutbul-Oz
Speech-language pathologist, researcher, and co-founder of Multi, a Bar-Ilan University startup combining clinical expertise, research, and technology for social impact
Israel
Haggai Kimmelman
VP of Informal Education, Mosaic United
Israel
Kalman-Liberman
Israel
Kostya Kilimnik
Head of Product & Content, AI-IL
Israel
Lian Chen
High school senior, co-founder of the Bagrunote initiative, and ambassador for LEAD, Israel’s youth leadership development program
Israel
Liel Even-Zohar, Adv.
First Deputy Mayor of Rishon LeZion, holding the Education and Public Construction portfolios; Vice Chair of the Local Planning and Building Committee
Israel
Lior Weintraub
VP of Public Policy and Government Relations, TikTok Israel
Israel
Malak Abd el-Ghani
12th-grade student, co-founder of the Bagrunote initiative, and ambassador in the LEAD program for youth leadership development in Israel
Israel
Rabbi Menachem Bombach
Founder and President of the Netzach Educational Network
Israel
Dr. Micah Goodman
Author, public intellectual, and scholar of Jewish and Israeli thought.
Israel
Prof. Mooli Lahad
Professor of psychology and international expert in trauma and resilience; founder and president of the Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC); developer of the BASIC Ph resilience model
Israel
Dr. Noah Heller
Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a core faculty member in the Teaching and Teacher Leadership (TTL)
USA
Prof. Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky
Head of the Institute for Social Integration, Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University
Israel
Prof. Rivka Wadmany-Shauman
Former Deputy Chair and Member, Council for Higher Education (CHE); Ariel University
Israel
Ronit Nehemia
Former National Supervisor of the Data Science high school track, Innovation and Technology Administration, Israel Ministry of Education.
Israel
Rotem Yehoshua
Director of the Department for Jewish-Zionist Identity, World Zionist Organization
Israel
Dr. Samir Mahamid
Mayor of Umm al-Fahm
Israel
Shelly Keren
Chair, Israel Association of Local Authority Education Directors; Director of Education, Gezer Regional Council
Israel
Shira Ben Israel
Principal, Neve Etzion Torah and Arts School; Representative of Jerusalem’s School Principals
Israel
Sharon Benyamin
Tanakh teacher and online content creator
Israel
Shirin Hafy Natour
Director of the Senior Department for Education in Arab and Bedouin Society, Ministry of Education
Israel
Avishai Berman
CEO of the Joint Council of Mechinot
Israel
David Schapira
Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction
USA
Adi Elrom
Israel
Tzippi Hammer
CEO, Group19
Israel
Yaffa Ben-David
Secretary General, Israel Teachers Union
Israel
Yehudit Miletzky
CEO, Institute for Strategy and Haredi Policy
Israel
David Fridman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
MusicTech Innovation Lab
Israel
Zvia Huberman
Playwright, screenwriter, and theater and television director
Israel
Agapios Oikonomidis
Supervisor of Education in Athens
Greece
Prof. Biju Kumar Thapalia, PhD
Professor of Supply Chain Management; former Vice Chancellor, Purbanchal University, Biratnagar, Nepal
Nepal
St. Claire Marlin Adriaan
Principal, PUC CALS (Partnerships to Uplift Communities), Los Angeles; Doctoral Candidate, Author, Lifelong Educator
USA
Rabbi David Meyer OBE
CEO, PaJeS (Partnerships for Jewish Schools); Non-Executive Board Member, Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted)
UK
Dr. Fawaz M. Habbal
Director General, Emirates Scholar Center for Research and Studies
UAE
Dr. Firas M. Habbal
President, Emirates Scholar Center for Research and Studies
UAE
Jeremy Stowe-Lindner
Principal, Bialik College
Australia
Nas Daily (Nuseir Yassin)
International content creator and founder of Nas Academy
USA
Rachel Friedmann
Director of Carmel School in Hong Kong and founder of its Elsa High School division
Hong Kong
Ralf Becker
Executive Board Member in charge of Vocational and Further Education, German Education Union (GEW)
Germany
Nili sagiv
Israel
Raya Strauss Bendror
Israel
Liran kogahinoff
Israel
Dafna Kron
Israel
Yehonatan toker
Content creator, lecturer, researcher, and writer specializing in Israeli society, Jewish identity, and Hebrew culture
Israel
Galit Roichman
Screenwriter and film lecturer
Israel
Tamar Makharashvili
Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia
Georgia
Iris Halifa
Israel