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Jake Sullivan

  • U.S. National Security Advisor (2021-2024), Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State (2011-2013), Deputy Chief of Staff,  US Department of State (2009-2011)
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Jack Lew

  • Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2016), White House Chief of Staff (2012-2013), Director Office Management & Budget (2010-2012), Citigroup Senior Executive, COO, New York University & United States Ambassador to Israel (2023-2025)   
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Kim Ghattas

  • Strategic Advisor on Geopolitics & Leading Middle East Expert; NYT Bestselling Author: 'The Secretary' & 'Black Wave'
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Al Gore

  • Fmr. U.S. Vice President, Founder & Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, and Nobel Laureate
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Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

  • White House Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor (2021-2025); Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (2014-2017); Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Distinguished Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Bret Stephens

  • Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist; Fmr. EiC, The Jerusalem Post; Columnist, NYT
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Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro

  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel; Senior Director for the Middle East & North Africa, National Security Council
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Mohamed El-Erian

  • Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz; President of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge; Board Member (Under Armor); Author of Permacrisis
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Daniel Gordis

  • SVP, Shalem Center; Founding Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism; National Jewish Book Award-Winning Author: 'Israel'
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David Horovitz

  • Founding Editor, The Times of Israel (2012-present), Former Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem Post (2004–2011),Author of 'A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel' and 'Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism', Recipient of the U.S. National Jewish Book Award & the Bnai Brith Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism
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Rick Santorum

  • U.S. Senator and Member of the Armed Services Committee, Republican Presidential Candidate, and Advocate for Conservative Values
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Amna Nawaz

  • PBS NewsHour Co-Anchor; NBC News & MSNBC Political Contributor; 4x Peabody & Emmy Award-Winner
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William J. Burns

  • Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (2021-2025), Deputy Secretary of State (2011-2014), US Ambassador to Russia during the Bush Administration (2005-2008)
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Elliott Abrams

  • Longtime Presidential Advisor on National Security in the Middle East and Venezuela and U.S. Dept. of State Special Representative
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Jane Lute

  • Fmr. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security; Fmr. Advisor to UN Secretary General; Board Member: Shell, Union Pacific, Marsh McLennan, the Atlantic Council, & CIS
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Dick Cheney

  • Former U.S. Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief of Staff; Renowned Statesman and Bestselling Author
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David Makovsky

  • Expert on U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Fmr. Sr. Advisor to U.S. Secretary of State, and Award-Winning Journalist and Author
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Laura Blumenfeld

  • Prize-Winning Middle East Correspondent, NYT Bestselling Author, and Former Policy Advisor
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Karen Hughes

  • One of the World's Foremost Communication Strategists, PRWeek Hall of Famer, and Counselor to President Bush
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Michael Chertoff

  • Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity Expert and Founder of the Data Equilibrium Project, Co-Founder of The Chertoff Group
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Mohamed ElBaradei

  • Former Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Laureate, and Expert on Geopolitics & Global Security
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Amos Hochstein

  • Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment (2022-2025), Special US Envoy, Lebanon (2022-2025); Executive Vice President at Tellurian Inc. (2017-2020)
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Tom Bossert

  • Former Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Advisor, President of Trinity Cyber, and National Security Analyst for ABC
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Her Majesty Queen Noor

  • Global Humanitarian & Activist, Philanthropist, and Founding Member of Global Zero
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Alan Dershowitz

  • Renowned Defense Attorney, Bestselling Author, and Prominent Scholar on U.S. Constitutional & Criminal Law
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Dan Gillerman

  • Chairman of Blackstone Israel, Chairman & CEO of Gillerman Global, and Former Israeli Amb. to UN
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Wolf Blitzer

  • Emmy-Winning Journalist, Lead Political Anchor for CNN, and Anchor of 'The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer'
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General Mark Milley

  • 20th Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff; Fmr. Military Advisor to President, SecDef, & NSC
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Ehud Barak

  • Fmr. Israeli PM, 2x Minister of Defense; Board Member, CIFC Asset Management
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Natan Sharansky

  • Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Prominent Human Rights Advocate, and Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Daniel Kurtzer

  • Critical Voice on the Middle East, Israel & Egypt
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Ban Ki-moon

  • Secretary-General of the UN; President & Chair of Global Green Growth Institute; & Founder of Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens

Joseph McMonigle

  • Former Secretary General of the International Energy Forum, Global Energy Expert, International Affairs & Geopolitics Analyst, Saudi Arabia Expert

Tamer Elnoury

  • Former Undercover FBI Operative, New York Times Bestselling Author of 'American Radical', and Expert in Human Connection

Daniel Hoffman

  • CIA Russian Operations Expert, Former CIA Senior Executive, Expert in Cyber Security and Counterterrorism

Anderson Cooper

  • Host, Anderson Cooper 360º

Tzipi Livni

  • Israeli politician, diplomat and lawyer

Michele Rigby Assad

  • Former CIA Counterintelligence Specialist

Izzy Ezagui

  • Author; Inspirational Speaker; Veteran

Ian Bremmer

  • President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Florence Eid-Oakden

  • CEO and Chief Economist, Arabia Monitor

John E. McLaughlin

  • Former Deputy Director and Acting Director of Central Intelligence

Fred Burton

  • Global Terrorism and Security Expert and New York Times Bestselling Author

Michael Oren

  • Historian, Former Israeli Leader, Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., and New York Times Best-Selling Author

Nancy Soderberg

  • U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-2001

Dr. Mark T. Esper

  • Former U.S. SecDef, Bestselling Author of 'A Sacred Oath', and Commissioner, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review

Aaron Keyak

  • Former Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Council on Foreign Relations Term Member

Daniel Goldhagen

  • Best Selling Author

Itamar Rabinovich

  • Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States

Marc Polymeropoulos

  • Distinguished 26 Year CIA Veteran with Operational Assignments Covering the Middle East, Europe, Eurasia and CounterTerrorism

Martha Raddatz

  • ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent & Co-Anchor of ABC'S This Week

Souad Mekhennet

  • Renowned Reporter on Radical Islamic Movements

Gary Rosenblatt

  • Editor and Publisher, Jewish Week

Tom Rogan

  • Youngest-Ever Panelist, The McLaughlin Group; Foreign Policy Columnist, National Review

Elan Carr

  • Attorney, Politician, and Former U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism

Bob Woodruff

  • Renowned ABC News Anchor and Correspondent; Co-Founder Bob Woodruff Foundation; Best-Selling Author of 'In an Instant'