Walter Bingham - Arutz Sheva Radio - Israel National News
Walter Bingham of Arutz Sheva Radio, Israel National News featured on the right of the above photo was born in, Germany. Just days before the outbreak of WWII, with the help of a Zionist youth movement he was selected for a place on the Kindertransport to Great Britain. Walter saw front line action during the Normandy invasion of Europe and was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’. He is a veteran journalist and broadcaster. Married with one daughter, and later widowed, he decided at the age of 80 to make aliya from Liondon, England to be near his daughter in Jerusalem and a grandson who lives in Tel Aviv. His weekly radio programme, Walter´s World, can be heard on Israel National Radio.com every Sunday at 5pm Israel time, 3pm UK time and 10am Eastern Standard Time USA.
Rabbi Benny Elon - Former Member of The Israeli Knesset & Former Israeli Government Minister
Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon (Hebrew: בנימין אלון, born 10th November 1954) is an Israeli politician and a Former Member of the Knesset. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, He has lived in the Jewish Community of Beit El for the last twenty years. His father Menachem Elon was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel and his brother, Rabbi Mordechai Elon, is a prominent figure in the Religious Zionist Movement.
Rabbi Elon is a keen supporter of the continuation of the Israeli Community growth in Judea and Samaria and the return to Gush Katif, and recognises G-d's covenant with the Jewish People for all the land of Israel. He suggests an alternative proposal to the current so called 'peace efforts' called The Right Road to Peace, centered on motivating the emigration of West Bank and Gaza Arabs, also known as the Elon Peace Plan. Rabbi Elon has been an advocate for transfer as a solution for the demographic issues posed by the Arab population.
Michael Freund is the Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel. He writes a syndicated column and feature stories for the Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading English-language daily, and he previously served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Prime Minister's Office under Benjamin Netanyahu. A native of New York, he holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Shavei Israel – literally, ‘Israel returns’ - is the starting point for anyone with Jewish roots or ancestry yearning to return to the Jewish people. Comprised of a team of academics, educators and rabbinical figures, Shavei Israel reaches out to “lost Jews” and assists them in coming to terms with their heritage and identity in a spirit of tolerance and understanding. Shavei Israel has the support of different rabbinical authorities in Israel and the United States of America. Shavei Israel extends a helping hand to all members of our extended Jewish family and to all who seek to rediscover or renew their link with the people of Israel.
The activities of Shavei Israel focus on:
• Descendants of Anousim (crypto-Jews in Spain, Portugal, South America and elsewhere)
• Descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (such as the Bnei Menashe of India)
• Subbotniks (descendants from a group from Russia who has converted to Judaism)
• Kaifeng Jews (descendants from an assimilated Chinese community)
• Hidden Jews from Poland (descendants from Jews adopted by catholic families during the Second World War or Jews that hid their Judaism during the communist era)
• Jews from the Amazon (descendants from assimilated Moroccan Jews that arrived in the area for commerce)
• Inca Jews (Peruvian community from the Inca area of Peru that decided to convert and join Judaism)
• San Nicandro (Italian community who decided to convert to Judaism, today most of them live in Israel. Nonetheless, there is still a women's community in San Nicandro - Italy)
Shavei Israel Heichal Shlomo, 58, King George Street Jerusalem 94262 Israel
Rabbi Yehudah Glick - Otniel Yeshiva
Rabbi Yehudah is the Director of Overseas Programming at Otniel Yeshiva and studied at this Yeshivat when it was first established over 25 years ago. Rabbi Yehudah made Aliyah to Israel with his family in 1974 and studied at different yeshivot such as Makor Chayim, Telz Stone, Otniel and Har Etzion. He has a Bachelor's degree in Education from Herzog College and an MA in The History of Am Yisrael from Touro College. Rabbi Yehudah is a lifelong teacher and the former manager of the southern branch of "Misrad HaKlitah" (Ministry of Immagrant Absorbtion) as well as the former general manager of The Temple Institute. He is the current chairman of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation. Rabbi Yehudah is married to Yaffa and has 8 children and 1 grandchild.
Nehemiah Gordon - Author & Speaker
Shoshanna Harrari - Harrari Harps
Shoshanna Harrari together with her husband Micah who is of Levitical descent are both originally from the United States and are the founders of Harrari Harps. For the past 25 years Micah and Shoshanna have been manufacturing Biblical style harps and lyres in their Israeli workshop for the Temple Institute and for personal orders.
The House of Harrari Moshav Ramat Raziel 52 D.N. North Yehuda Israel
Pastor Keith Johnson - Author & Speaker
Ishmael Khaldi - Diplomat - Israel Foreign Ministry
Rabbi Dov Lipman - Author & Lecturer From Bet Shemesh
Rabbi Dov Lipman is a Rebbi at Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim www.reishit.org and Machon Maayan www.machonmaayan.org in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Whether teaching classes in Jewish philosophy, Talmud, the weekly parsha, mussar/ethics or learning with students in small groups, Rabbi Lipman has earned respect and admiration as a trusted, caring and dynamic Rebbi. He is also very involved in the Bet Shemesh community having worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Mayor, volunteered as a campaign manager in the recent Mayoral elections, and serving as a liason/mediator between the Hareidi and Religious Zionist/Secular communities in the city.
A graduate of Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland, Rabbi Lipman has Rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, zt"l, and is also a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, with an M.S. in Education. An experienced educator, Rabbi Lipman has held numerous administrative and educational positions in the United States and Israel.
Daniel Luria - Jerusalem Reclamation Project
Daniel Luria, originally from Australia is the Executive Director of the Jerusalem Reclamation Project.
Ruth Margolin - Media Cordinator - Israel Project, Sderot
Ruth Margolin is the Media Coordinator of The Israel Project office in Sderot. The Israel Project (TIP) is an international non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace. The Israel Project provides journalists, leaders and opinion-makers accurate information about Israel.
They provide a team of Middle East experts and former reporters with fact sheets, backgrounders and sources. TIP regularly hosts press briefings featuring leading Israeli spokespeople and analysts that give journalists an opportunity to get information and answers to their questions face-to-face. By providing journalists with the facts, context and visuals they need, TIP causes hundreds of millions of people around the world to see a more positive public face of Israel. This helps protect Israel, reduce anti-Semitism and increase pride in Israel.
David Rubin - Author, Speaker & ex-Mayor of Shiloh
David Rubin grew up in the United States where he was educated in the New York public school system and American universities and taught in schools in New York at college, secondary and elementary levels. About twenty years ago while pursuing a doctorate in Education at Columbia University David also carried out extensive research into Jewish history. He began to explore his roots in depth leading him to the conclusion that his future was not in the world of American academia but rather in the Land of Israel.
In 1992 David moved to the village of Shiloh in the heart of what the world media mistakenly refers to as "The West Bank". He built his home there and together with his wife is raising his growing family on a hilltop not far from Ancient Shiloh.
On 17th December 2001 David and his then three-year-old son were seriously wounded in a vicious shooting attack on their car by Muslim terrorists. They were miraculously saved from death and David now goes out to tell his horrific but inspiring story to the world along with the reality of what's happening in the Biblical Heartland.
David has established the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund to help the children who have been so traumatized by the terrorists' war against Israel. Funds raised to date have been used to provide direct aid to orphans who have lost parents through terror attacks, for bulletproof vests for children and to build playgrounds in the pioneering communities that have suffered the most from the terror war against Israel.
David Wilder - Spokesman For The Jewish Community of Hebron
David Wilder was born in New Jersey, USA in 1954 and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA in History and teacher certification in 1976. He went to Israel in 1974 and studied at a Yeshiva for over 8 years. He worked at Yeshivat Shavei Hebron in a Public Relations capacity. He has worked at the Hebrew University and Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. He is currently the English Spokesman for Jewish Community of Hebron in Israel and internationally.
Yonatan Yagodovsky - Magen David Adom - Israeli Ambulance & Medical Service
Yonatan Yagodovsky is the director of the Iinternational Department of Magen David Adom - the Israeli Ambulance & Medical Service at Tel Aviv.
Aran Yardeni - Israeli Archaeologist - Temple Mount Sifting Project
Aran Yardeni was born in Jerusalem and graduated from the Bar Ilan University with a degree in Land of Israel Studies & Archeology. He has participated in various archeological excavations and for the moment he is involved in an archeological excavation in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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