Speaker Biographies

Ariel Zwang

Ariel Zwang, the dynamic and widely recognized American nonprofit executive, is CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the global Jewish humanitarian organization operating in 70 countries worldwide. Ariel took the helm of JDC, and its team of hundreds of professional…

Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki

Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki was born in Kfar Chabad, Israel in 1965. In 1946, his parents fled the Soviet Union to the Land of Israel due to religious persecution and Anti-Semitism.

In 1981 Rabbi Kaminezki moved to the United States to study at the Rabbinical College of America-Lubavitch in Morr…

Ambassador Gilad Erdan

His Excellency Gilad Erdan is Israel's Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. He is the first person to serve in both roles since Abba Eban in the 1950s.

Prior to assuming his dual role, Ambassador Erdan served in the Israeli Knesset for 17 years and held several ministeria…

Ambassador Meron Reuben

Ambassador Meron Reuben has served as the Consul General of Israel to New England since November 2020.

Ambassador Reuben has a diplomatic career spanning over three decades, during which he has served in various positions, including roles at the Israeli embassies in Chile​ and Mexico…

Isaac Herzog

Isaac Herzog, son of the sixth President of Israel Chaim Herzog, grandson of Israel's first Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog and nephew of Israel's former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, was born in Israel in 1960.

Mr. Herzog was appointed Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency …