Colonel (res.) Adv. Asem Hamed served as the Chief Legal Advisor of the Israel Defense Forces in the Judea and Samaria Area from 2020 to 2023. He retired from the IDF with the rank of Colonel after holding a series of legal positions within the IDF and the defense establishment, including roles in the Military Prosecution, the Military Defense, and legal advisory units.

Matt Shapiro completed his MA in Conflict Research, Management, and Resolution at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on the role and impact of interpersonal dynamics on diplomatic negotiations. He holds a BA in Political Science and Psychology (summa cum laude) from Brandeis University, where he completed a senior honours thesis on Holocaust memorialization in Israel and the United States, examining its effects on collective memory and social cohesion. He has contributed to research on US-Israel relations, analyzing policy developments, public opinion polls and scholarly literature for publications in the Israel Affairs journal. He has also assisted with conducting digital social media research on political discourse and public sentiment in Israel. 

Adina Bar-Shalom is the founder of the Haredi College of Jerusalem and a recipient of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Society and the State (2014).

Founder and head of Tachlith Institute for Israeli Policy. In the past, he served as CEO of the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University, and head of the Business Development Network of the America-Israel Friendship League in New York. Cohen worked at the Naschitz, Brandes, Amir & Co. law firm as a Senior Attorney for International Commercial Law, in the field of mergers and acquisitions. He graduated from the global executive track of Harvard Business School, and holds a master’s degree in international business administration and a bachelor’s degree in law and government (cum laude, Reichman University). He is a board member at a technology company and two civil society organizations in Israel, and sits on the General Assembly of Reichman University.

Attorney and Professor of Law. Shapira is Rector of the Peres Academic Center. He is a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University, a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, a Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University, and a former Dean of Bar-Ilan’s Faculty of Law. He is an expert in legal procedures, evidence law, criminal law and mathematical formulations of legal doctrines.

Former Deputy Attorney General in the field of civil law in the Ministry of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs (2013–2021). As head of the Civil Law Department Kaminitz dealt, among other things, with the government’s response to the housing crisis, and relations between the central and local governments on planning procedures and municipality authorities. He is a lecturer at Hebrew University and in various forums. In 2022 he joined the law firm of Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. as a Partner and Head of Governance and Regulatory Affairs. Kaminitz holds a bachelor’s degree in law (Tel Aviv University) and a master’s degree in law (cum laude, Hebrew University).

Head of the Libba Center’s One Hundred Initiative. Friedman served as a Member of Knesset for the Blue and White party. She is a veteran public figure and social activist, founder of organizations and initiatives to promote social cohesion in Jerusalem and in Israel. She was Chair of the Ne’emanei Torah movement, a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Programs Manager at the Shaharit Institute, and also managed the Israeli office of the New Jersey Federation and the field of Jewish culture at Yad HaNadiv. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in law (cum laude) from Hebrew University, and is a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership. Friedman received her Torah education at Midreshet Lindenbaum and Beit Morasha in Jerusalem.

Associate Professor at the College of Law and Business (CLB). Porat holds a bachelor’s degree in law and philosophy (cum laude, Hebrew University) and a master’s degree and doctorate in law (Stanford University). He was a visiting researcher at the University of San Diego, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was a recipient of a Bellagio Center scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation for a research fellowship in 2023, and has taught at the University of San Diego, University of Melbourne, the University of Hong Kong, and at the National University of Singapore. His main research interests are constitutional law and comparative constitutional law.

Policy researcher in the fields of administrative and public law. Nagid holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law from Hebrew University, and a doctorate from Bar-Ilan University. Her areas of specialization are law and domain, local government and democracy, regionalism, communities and theories of political participation. Nagid is the Legal Adviser of the Emunah movement, a member of the Southern Geographical Research Committee, a Senior Fellow in the Kohelet Policy Forum, and a Public Advocate in the Jerusalem Labor Court. She was employed as a researcher in the Local Government Project – Constitutional Principles at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), was a Legal Adviser for the Local Government Economic Services Authority, and completed an internship at Israel’s Supreme Court.