CJI Advisory Board
Anat Friedman
Anat Friedman is an experienced Senior Vice President at AF Communications and strategy consulting, with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry. Skilled in Corporate Communications, Crisis Intervention, Media Relations, Message Development, and Strategic Communications. Strong professional graduated from Tel Aviv University. In previous roles she served as the spokesperson of the Israeli mission to the UN, and a senior Voce President and Ran Rahav Communications.
Prof. Chuck Freilech
Professor Chuck Freilich is a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and long-time senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. He teaches political science at Columbia, NYU and Tel Aviv Universities and is a senior fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies (INSS) and the Miryam Institute. Professor Freilich is the author of several books, such as Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy (Cornell Press 2012). He has published numerous academic articles and over 220 op-eds, appears frequently in the Israeli and international media and speaks before a wide range of audiences. He is the senior editor of the Israel Journal for Foreign Affairs.
Orna Hozman Bechor
Orna Hozman Bechor is an experienced CEO of four government offices, and Chairwoman of the board of the Ashdod Port. She is a skilled director in government and public business entities, having extensive financial experience in managing multi billion shekels budgets who possess an in-depth understanding of regulatory areas, strategic vision and risk management capabilities.
Dr. Rachel Levy Drummer
Dr. Rachel-Shelly Levy-Drummer, born in Skopje, Macedonia, is a distinguished professional with a multifaceted background. She holds degrees in chemistry and statistics, including an MSc and a PhD in biomathematical modeling, from Bar Ilan University. Notably, she established the groundbreaking "Bio Medical Informatics for MD" program and served as the Secretary of Academic Affairs at Bar Ilan University from 2014 to 2023. In parallel, Dr. Levy-Drummer has actively contributed to preserving the history and heritage of the Jewish community in Bitola and Macedonia, collaborating with the former Israeli Ambassador to Macedonia, Mr. Dan Oryan, on various restoration and cultural projects. Her achievements include organizing the Bitola March of Living, a mass singing event, and the Pomegranate Project in Jerusalem's Sherover Promenade. Dr. Levy-Drummer is also recognized as a lecturer on the history of Macedonian Jews.
Major General Shlomi Michael
Major General (Res.) Shlomi Michael is the former Commander of the Judea and Samaria Police District and the Israel National Counterterrorism with 33 years of operational, managerial and leadership experience in commanding soldier and officers. He has accumulated extensive experience in building diverse combat, intelligence and surveillance units skilled in using state-of-the-art technologies, creativity and ingenuity. Built interfaces and maintained long-term relations with top Israeli and overseas emergency, law enforcement, security and intelligence organizations. Provided training and consulting services on counter-terrorism to countries and government agencies and established counter-terrorism units in several countries.
Dr. Dalit Stauber
Dalit Stauber is an Israeli educator who served as Director General of the Ministry of Education from 2021 to 2023 and from 2011 to 2013. Throughout her tenure as Director General, she led several reforms in the Ministry of Education to better adapt the educational system to the 21st century. She also holds several public positions, such as the chairman of the Stauber committee to promote women in civil service, Head of the board of directors of Ort Braude, Ministry of Education representative of the UN CEDAW, member of the advisory board of the IDF education corps, a lecturer and member of the board of trustees at Ono academic college, a member of the board of directors of Yad Vashem, and more.
Dr. Dana Wolf
Dr. Dana Wolf is the Head of the Law and Security Program at the Lauder School of Government, who focuses on research and teaching of public international law, in particular international humanitarian law, law of occupation and international criminal law. Dr. Wolf also focuses on research and teaching of international conflict management and resolution as well as negotiation. Dr. Wolf is a senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) and a Board Member at the Rubenstein Center for Constitutional Challenges (ICCC), Reichman University. Previously, Dr. Wolf served as a research fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Dr. Wolf has been admitted to the Israeli Bar Association in 2001 and worked as an associate at S. Horowitz & Co. at the Criminal Litigation Department. She previously served as an Adviser to the Legal Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York.