Founder and President
Ahava Zarembski is Founder and President of The Yesod-Masad Initiative, providing real time strategic support on Jewish Peoplehood issues to policy makers and influencers. Prior to establishing this innovative model in 2006, Ms. Zarembski worked in some of the top think-tanks in Israel and the United States andnumerous other institutes and organizations, helping them sculpt policy on internal Jewish relations, particularly fostering a better understanding of the issues impacting religious-secular relations within Israel as well as Israel-Diaspora relations.
Director of Internal Operations
Members of the Masad Board of Directors
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Uzi Dayan is a former Israeli National Security Advisor serving under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon. Dayan also served as Commander of the Central Command and Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Prof. Eliezer Don-Yehiya is a professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University and former director of the Agrov Center for Israel and the Jewish People. Don-Yehiya is one of Israel’s leading authorities on matters of religion and state in Israel, and the Religious-Zionist community, and the author of numerous publications.
Ms. Rachel Fish is Director of Campus Strategy at The David Project.
Prof. Menachem Friedman is a professor of sociology at Bar Ilan University and one of the world’s leading scholars on Ultra-Orthodox Jewry.
Ms. Harriet Mouchly Weiss is Managing Partner, Strategy XXI and Chairwoman of the Commission on the Jewish People of the UJA Federation of New York. Ms. Mouchly Weiss is on the board of directors of American Greetings and Vissiage.
Adv. Yaacov Neeman served as Israeli Minister of Finance and Israeli Minister of Justice, head of the Neeman Commission and is a senior partner Herzog, Fox, Neeman.
Dr. Jehuda Reinharz is the seventh President of Brandeis University and a leading scholar and author on Jewish History and early Zionism.
Shira Ruderman is Director of the Ruderman Family Trust.
Members of the Masad Advisory Board
Mr. Ariel Berry is Editor and Publisher of PresenTense Magazine.
Ms. Shoshana S. Cardin is a long-time activist in the Jewish community, former President of Council of Jewish Federations, Chair of the National Council of Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), Chair of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Chair the United Israel Appeal.
Adv. Moty Cristal is the former Israeli Deputy Head of the Negotiation Management Center in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel and currently a lecturer, The Interdisciplinary School Herziliya.
Mr. Aharon Horwitz is President of Thump Thump Guerillas Consulting.
Rabbi Michael Melchior is former Israeli Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and is currently a member of Knesset, Chief Rabbi of Norway and the International Director of the Elie Weisel Foundation.
Justice Zvi Tal is a former Israeli Supreme Court Justice and head of the Tal Commission.
Dr. Jonathan Woocher is Director of the Jewish Educational Service of North America (JESNA).
