LTC (Ret.) Or Horvitz is a strategic leader with over 17 years of experience at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy, U.S.–Israel relations, intelligence, and security. He currently serves as Head of the American Program at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).

In parallel, he serves as Head of Strategy at Elsight Ltd., as a Lecturer on intelligence, crisis management, and international affairs, and provides strategic advisory services to companies, institutions, and senior decision-makers navigating complex geopolitical and security environments.

A former Lieutenant Colonel in Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI), he led large multidisciplinary teams, authored hundreds of decision memoranda for senior military and government leadership, and gained extensive experience along the intelligence axis linking Israel and the United States. In his final roles in IDI, he served as Head of the Hezbollah and Lebanon Branch (2022–2024) and later as Senior Advisor to the Director of IDI (2024–2026), where he was centrally involved in post–October 7 transformation processes and Israel’s campaigns against Hezbollah and Iran.

He is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School’s RK Fellowship (2020–2021) and IDI’s elite Havatzalot program (2008–2011).

Yaakov Katz is an Israeli-American author and journalist. Between 2016 and 2023, Yaakov was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post where he continues to write a popular weekly column. He is the author of three books - “Shadow Strike – Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power”, “Weapon Wizards - How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower” and “Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War”. Shadow Strike was recently adapted into a docudrama by Reshet Media and his books have been published in a number of languages including English, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Japanese and Mandarin. His next book – tentatively titled “Precision Strike” – is scheduled for publication by St. Martin’s Press in the Spring of 2025. Yaakov served for close to a decade as the paper's military reporter and defense analyst and was a lecturer at Harvard University where he taught an advanced course in journalism. He also served as Israel correspondent for Jane’s Defence Weekly. Prior to taking up the role of editor-in-chief, Yaakov served for two years as a senior policy adviser to Naftali Bennett during his tenure as Israel’s Minister of Economy and Minister of Diaspora Affairs. In 2013, Yaakov was one of 12 international fellows to spend a year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Originally from Chicago, Yaakov has a law degree from Bar Ilan University.