Rabbi Israel Meir Lau	Professor Jonathan Halevy	Mr. Ron Kobrovsky	President Shimon Peres
Professor Zeev Rotstein	Mr. Natan Sharansky	Professor Shaul M. Shasha	Professor Joshua Shemer

President Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Rabbi Israel Mayer Lau, former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, currently serves as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. As one of Israel’s and Judaism’s most renowned and influential leaders, he meets and interacts frequently with world political and religious figures in order to present the views of Judaism and to advance the policies of the State of Israel. Read more... up

Professor Jonathan Halevy Professor Jonathan Halevy has been Director General of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem since 1988.  He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  From 2000 to 2006, Halevy served as the Chairman for the Israel Transplant Center. Read more... up

Mr. Ron Kobrovsky Ron Kobrovsky is currently the President of the Central Bottling Company (Coca Cola Group, Israel) after having served as it's CEO from 1998 until 2002. He also serves as the Chairman of the Food Industries Association at the Manufacturers Association of Israel; a position he was elected to in 2004. Mr. Kobrovsky was born in Israel in 1951 and graduated from Tel Aviv University. In 1994, he was awarded an Executive MBA from the Recanati Business School. Read more... up

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel, has twice served as Prime Minister. Peres was born in Vishniev, Belarus in 1923 and immigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of eleven. He studied at the Ben Shemen Agricultural School, and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Alumot in the Jordan Valley. In 1943, he was elected Secretary of the of the Labor-Zionist youth movement. Read more... up

Professor Zeev Rotstein Professor Zeev Rotstein, 55, is Director General of the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, the largest and most comprehensive hospital and research facility in the Middle East. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at both the Sackler School of Medicine and the Faculty of Management at Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. In the Sheba Medical Center he served both as the Director of the Acute Care Hospital and also as a Senior Cardiologist in the Heart Institute. Read more... up

Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky until recently served as a Member of the Knesset as a representative of the Likud party. He was born in Russia. Mr. Sharansky was a spokesman of the Jewish and Refusenik movement in Moscow. He was arrested in 1977 by the USSR and later convicted on trumped-up charges of treason and spying for the United States. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a degree in applied mathematics. Read more... up

Professor Shaul M. Shasha Dr. Shaul M. Shasha has been Director General of  the Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Israel, since 1987.   Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1939, Shasha immigrated to Israel in 1951.  He earned his medical degree from the Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, in 1968.   Shasha holds specialist degrees, one for Internal Medicine (1976) and the second for Nephrology (1978).  From 1979 to 1993, he was the head of the Renal and Hypertension Unit at the Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya. Read more... up

Professor Joshua Shemer Professor Shemer currently serves as Director General of Maccabi Healthcare Services, providing health services to 24% of the Israeli population (over 1.7 million people), and is Chairman of Assuta Medical Hospitals and Medical Centers.  He is the Founder and Director of the Israeli Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research at Tel Hashomer. Read more... up