Board Members and Program Staff

A graduate of the Migdal Oz Beit Midrash, Studied at the Machshevet Yisrael advanced program and was a Madricha (supervisor) at the Beit Midrash.
L.L.B, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Completed an internship in The Office of the State Attorney, in the Department of Labor Law, which deals with the largest social and financial issues in the Israeli economy.
Teaching Certificate, Herzog College
.Worked at several educational, as well as, non-profit organizations and in Bnei Akiva. Married to Matan and mother to Ori.

Bari Pardes Hanna, Head of the Latin America Program at the Emuna College, teaches at the Latin America Department at Lindenbaum College. He founded the "La Casa" community in Buenos Aires and was a Bnei Akiva emissary there. Holds a B.e.d degree in Education. Married to Reut and father to Shachar and Uri.

Holds a B.A. in Political Science and Communication and an M.A. in Political Science and International Relations.
Specializing in public relations and spokespersons for public organizations and associations and in particular in the fields of religion and state.
Specializing in managing political, municipal, public campaigns, struggles and crises.
She previously served as a spokeswoman for the Beit Hillel Rabbinical Association.

Noa has been involved in Diaspora jewry for 10 years. In her last position in Kolot she managed the delegations and the has A BA in Economics and Logistics. She lives in Efrat, Gush Etzion and A mother of three.

Rabbi of the "Kinor David" community in Raanana. Rabbi of Amit Renanim School, teaches at Matan and Midreshet Lindinbaum. Graduate of Sha‘alvim and Har Etzion Hesder Yeshivas and Beit Morasha. He holds a bachelor’s degree in humanities from the Open University. First principal and Rosh Yeshiva of the Amit Nachshon Yeshiva High-School outside of Beit Shemesh.

24. Student of community social work at the Hebrew University. A graduate of the Migdal Oz Beit Midrash, she worked for the Migdal Oz alumni organization for two years.

Social entrepreneur, holds a BEd, an MA in educational administration, and Smicha from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, with over 15 years of experience in education and training.
CEO of IzraEx - The Izrael Experience, and development manager in Etz Hasade - experiential education NGO.
Former Bnei Akiva Olami and Jewish Agency shaliach in Cleveland OH, and a member of the Mandel center for leadership in the North (Cohort #2).
Volunteers in Tzohar, and active in the young leadership sterring committee in Partnership 2Gether of the Jewish Agency.
Happy to live in the wonderful community of Migdal Haemek, married to Odelia and proud father of four boys.

Social worker, screenwriter, editor and content writer.
Graduate of the Ma’aleh Film School and the Matan and Darisha seminaries.
Lives in Jerusalem, sister to 7 brothers and aunt to 3.5 nephews

Third-year student in the PKM program at the Hebrew University, coordinator of policy and research in the field of education.
Education correspondent on the website "Mida - Research and Analysis Articles". His book, The High Road: A Halachic and Meta-Halachic Alternative to the Book “Torat Melech,” was released in 2011.

Shlomit Naim-Naor is an Israeli poet and educator
She studied at the Beit Midrash Elul and for a bachelor’s degree in literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University
In addition, she leads Naim-Naor seminars and writing groups on Jewish and Israeli identity, medical education and art, and serves as one of the editors of the poetry magazine Mashiv Haruach, where she edited several issues and even served as artistic director of the Love Days Poetry Festival in 2019-2020.

Lecturer in Political Science, Bar-Ilan University.

Lecturer in history, literature, and Israeli culture.

Youth Movement Leaders Program Coordinator

Alad is married to Adi, he is father of two daughters and lives in Jerusalem. He studied at the Otniel Yeshiva, received a BA in Law from the Hebrew University and studied for a master’s degree in public policy.

Before making Aliya to Israel, served as Rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh of Portland, Maine and prior to that as Orthodox Rabbi of Harvard Hillel. Received a BA in Classical Languages from Yeshiva University and MA in History from Columbia University. Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. Member of the International Rabbinic Fellowship. Married to Michal, and father of Aryeh, Devora, Avrami, Tali and Daniela.

Lecturer in Law and Conflict Resolution, Bar-Ilan University and Ono Academic College

Director, Center for Jewish Leadership at Kolot. Former fellow at the Mandel Center for Jewish Leadership. Former Director of the Israeli office of the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey.

Head, The Israeli GeneBank—Agriculture Research Organization.

Content, Evaluation, and Measurement Coordinator at Panim —The Union of Jewish Renewal Organizations in Israel.

A graduate of Yeshivat Hakibbutz Hadati in Ma’aleh Gilboa and Beit Morasha in Jerusalem. Ilay has a BA in psychology and Talmud, is a Rabbi certified by Israel’s chief rabbinate and teaches in a military seminar and in the Yaacov Herzog Center. He is the Rabbi of kibbutz Yavneh.

As the Director of the Communal Model, he has focused in his research on religious services and the funding of religious and haredi educational institutions. He teaches at Ashkelon College and Himmelfarb high school. He headed the public committee on religious services in Israel.

Lea is currently completing her BA in Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature at Hebrew University. She is also studying for a teaching certificate from the Kerem Institute and works at a non-profit organization that supports young women in National Service.

Ariel is a graduate of the Hesder Yeshiva in Petach Tikva, a student in the departments of literature and philosophy of Hebrew University and a writer and editor for Makor Rishon.

Mr. Dayan is a graduate of the Hesder Yeshiva in Petach Tikva and holds a BA in economics, political science and sociology from Bar-Ilan University. He ran the Yerushalmim campaign for Jerusalem’s municipality and continues to run Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz’s alternative kosher certification program.

President of the World Sephardic Union. Formerly a diplomat in Israel’s Foreign Service. Editor and director of Division for External Relations in the Hebrew University.

Project officer, AVI CHAI Foundation.

Coordinator of “Encounters” Program and group mediator at Gesher.