Chaim Azriel Weizmann November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected February 1, 1949, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel that eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labour, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969, to June 3, 1974. As the BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.

Moshe Sharett, born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms. Born in Kherson, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Moshe Sharett emigrated to Palestine in 1908. His family was one of the founders of Tel Aviv. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Herzliya Hebrew High School.

Abba Eban (born February 2, 1915, died November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Born with the name Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early age. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School before studying Classics and Oriental languages at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating with a "Triple-Starred First", he researched Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1938-1939.

Zeev Bielski (born 1949) is the current Chairman of Executive of The Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. He was born and raised in the city of Jerusalem.

Sallai Meridor (born 1955 in Jerusalem, Israel) is the current Israeli Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed to the position in 2006 by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Prior to this, Meridor served as the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization from 1999-2005, Treasurer of the Jewish Agency and WZO and as the Head of the Settlement Division of the WZO.

Max Simon Nordau, born Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including "The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation" (1883), …

Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.

Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943) was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was also one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and a pioneering sociologist credited as being "The Father Of Jewish Sociology", directing Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to 1907. In 1926, Ruppin joined the faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and founded the sociology department. A building there is now named in his honor.

Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was a German rabbi who was outspoken against Nazism and became an American Jewish leader. After his emigration to the United States, he became vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress, an active member of the World Zionist Organization and a participant in the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington

Otto Warburg (1859-1938), was a botanist and industrial agriculture expert and an active member of the World Zionist Organization, which worked toward the re-establishment of Israel. He later served as the WZO's President from 1911-21. Otto Warburg is not be confused with his distant cousin of the same name Otto Heinrich Warburg the biochemist, physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. The Nobel laureate Warburg is also the namesake of the Warburg effect.

David Wolffsohn was a Jewish businessman and prominent Zionist and second president of the World Zionist Organization. Wolffsohn was born in Darbėnai, Lithuania, to religious parents - Isaac and Feiga. He received an observant religious education from his parents and in 1872 was sent to Germany to avoid conscription into the Russian army. He settled in Klaipėda, where he met Rabbi Yitzhak Rilf, who accepted him as a student.

Yehoshua Hankin (also Henkin, Chenkin) (1864-1945) was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine. Hankin was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, and moved to Rishon LeZion with his parents in 1882. In 1887 his family moved to Gedera, where he became friendly with local Arabs, helping him negotiate the purchase of land. Hankin's first purchase was the land of Rehovot, acquired in 1890.

Kurt Blumenfeld (May 29, 1884 in Marggrabowa, East Prussia-May 21, 1963 in Jerusalem) was a German-born Zionist. He was the secretary general of the World Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1914.

Alan Oirich has been working in Jewish media and creative education for twenty years as writer, animator, director, and producer. He is Director of Production for Shalom TV, and has been writing film reviews professionally since the 1980s. Creator of the critically acclaimed Jewish Hero Corps comic book series, Mr. Oirich was the recipient of a New York State grant for developing animated films.

Joseph Boris (Ber) Schechtman was a historian, political activist and writer, best known for his two-volume biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky. Schechtman was born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine). While participating in the Zionist youth movement, he met Jabotinsky. Schechtman studied in Novorossiysk University. There he established contacts with members of the Ukrainian national movement.

Yosef Aharon Almogi (born 5 May 1910, died 2 November 1991) was an Israeli politician. Born Josef Karlenboim in Hrubieszow, Poland on May 5, 1910, he joined the Dror movement in 1924 and moved to Israel in 1930. He served as a commander of the Hagana in Kfar Saba, Tel Aviv (1936) and Haifa (1937). In 1940 he enlisted in the British Army, and fought in Greece. He was captured and spent the remainder of the War in a German POW camp.

Faisal bin Hussein was for a short time king of Greater Syria in 1920 and king of Iraq from 1921 to 1933. He was a member of the Hashemite dynasty and therefore allegedly a descendant of Muhammad. He was born in Ta'if (in present-day Saudi Arabia) in 1883, the third son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, the Grand Sharif of Mecca. In 1913 he was elected as representative for the city of Jeddah for the Ottoman parliament.

Dr Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873-1924) was a Jewish neurologist and literary critic. Elyashev's pen name was "Ba'al Machshavot" (Hebrew for ("Master [of] Thoughts" / "The Thinker"). He was trained as a physician, specialising in neurology, but is best known for his work as a literary critic, writing in Yiddish. He translated Theodor Herzl's "Altneuland" from German into Yiddish. His attitude to Jewish literature and the two great Jewish languages, …

Karma Feinstein-Cohen (born 1967) is the founding Executive Director of World Magshimey Herut and World Herut. Since establishing these movements in 1999, she has worked to advance Jewish national goals both in Israel and worldwide. Long committed to the ideology of Zev Jabotinsky, she previously served in various leadership positions within Betar for over eleven years. After serving as the Education Coordinator for Betar Israel and as the Regional Coordinator for the Settlement Region, …

Roni Milo (born 26 November 1949) is an Israeli politician and journalist, and a former Knesset member who held several ministerial positions. He was also mayor of Tel Aviv from 1993 to 1998.

Eric Zimmerman (PGA/COSEPUP) is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). His research is entitled "The Factors Affecting the Relationship between Scientific Productivity and the Use of Email among University Scholars". Eric received a BA and an MA in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College in New York. Since then, he has pursued self-initiated opportunities to broaden his understanding of the interface between science policy and government.

Prof. Howard L. Adelson was the Foundation's second chairman. Prof. Adelson became active with the Foundation around 1990 and worked closely with Capt. Levy in shaping the Foundation during its early years. Prof. Adelson was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 16, 1925. He received his BA from New York University before serving in the Army during the occupation of Japan after WWII.

Roni Milo , Roni Milo was born in Israel in 1949, and holds a law degree (L.L.B.) from Tel-Aviv University. He served in the Israel Defense Forces as a legal officer. Milo has held a wide range of public positions, including Mayor of Tel Aviv; Chairman, Israeli Student Union; Chief Editor, "Yoman Hashavua" Weekly; Chairman, "Dor Hemshech" Council in the World Zionist Organization; Chairman, Information Departmen of Herut Movement; and Chairman, World Likud Organization.

Rabbi Jay Perlman is the Senior Rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom. Since his arrival in Needham in the summer of 2003, Rabbi Perlman has been dedicated to serving the Beth Shalom community so as to help nurture a bright, vibrant, spiritually meaningful and warm congregational experience for all those who are part of the temple family. He shares in this wonderful work with numerous outstanding lay and professional leadership partners.

Joel L. Leibowitz Joel L. Leibowitz has more than three decades of Jewish philanthropy experience and currently serves as Northeast Zone Director for Jewish National Fund, serving New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. An attorney, Joel has a strong background in solicitation and a long history in Jewish communal affairs, both as a lay leader and as a professional.

Dr. Steven Copeland , associate professor of Jewish Thought and Education at Hebrew College , is noted for his innovative approaches to teaching classical Jewish texts. A frequent lecturer in various Jewish education forums, he has served as a curriculum consultant to the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education and developed curricula in many areas, including the study of Bible, prayer, Zionism and Midrash.

Eitan Cooper Director of Development Eitan Cooper , Director of Development at the The Schechter Institutes, Inc., has a strong background as a Jewish educator and is also an Israeli tour guide. Prior to coming to Schechter, he served as Educational Director of the Hadassah Youth Center on Mt.

Yossi Katz Teacher Yossi has been with HSI since 1980 serving as a madrich, a group coordinator and in 1986 he started teaching. From 1983 to 1986 and again from 1991 to 1994 he worked in the U.S. as a Shaliach for the State of Israel and the World Zionist Organization working with American Jewish youth. Over the past few years, he has also been official Scholar-in-Residence for Jewish communities in Boca Raton, Seattle and Philadelphia.

Chaim Weizmann , the son of Jewish parents, was born in Russia in 1874. He studied at Pinsk, Darmstadt and Berlin before obtaining his doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He later taught chemistry at the University of Geneva. Weizmann developed a number of successful patents on dyes. In 1904 he moved to Manchester where he worked with the chemist Henry Perkin .

Leah Stern Recin of Skokie, Illinois is a member of the National Board of Hadassah's Executive Committee and a former National Vice President. She currently serves as Chair of Youth Aliyah and is a member of the Vaas Hapoel (Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.

J.J. Goldberg is editor in chief of The Forward, the national newsweekly published in association with the legendary Jewish Daily Forward . An award-winning journalist, author and lecturer, he has covered the politics and culture of the Middle East and the Jewish world for more than two decades. In the past he has served as a syndicated columnist in New York, as a police reporter in Los Angeles and as U.S. bureau chief of the Israeli newsmagazine Jerusalem Report .