Honorary Presidents

Dr. Douglas Goldman (San Francisco).
Mr. Harvey Krueger (New York)

Founding Committee – made up of prominent genealogists:

Dr. Alexandre Beider Ph.D. (Paris)
Mrs. Claire Bruell (Auckland)
Mrs. Sophie Caplan OAM (Sydney)
Mr. Stanley M. Diamond MBA (Montreal)
Mr. Alain Farhi (Singapore, New York)
Prof. Ladislau Gyemant Ph.D. (Cluj)
Dr. Anthony Joseph MD (Birmingham, England)
(Amb.) Dr. Neville Y. Lamdan D.Phil. (Jerusalem)
Prof. Dov Levin Ph.D. (Jerusalem)
Mr. Gary Mokotoff (Bergenfield NJ)
Dr. Chanan Rapaport, Ph.D. (Jerusalem)
Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack Ph.D. (Washington DC)
Mrs. Mathilde A. Tagger B.Sc., M.L.Sc. (Jerusalem).

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Honorary Advisory Board - comprising prominent Jewish personalities:

Chair:

Dr. Stuart Eizenstat (former US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and US Ambassador to the EU)

Members:

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry; Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa)
Prof. Irwin Cotler (MP and former Canadian Minister of Justice)
Baroness Ruth Deech (House of Lords; former Principal, St. Anne’s College, Oxford)
Prof. Alan Dershowitz (Professor of Law, Harvard)
Abraham Foxman (National Director, Anti-Defamation League, USA)
Sir Martin Gilbert (historian and author, Oxford)
Arthur Kurzweil (author and pioneering Jewish genealogist)
Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (Chairman, Yad Vashem Council; former Chief Rabbi of Israel)
Senator Joe Lieberman (US Senate)
Dr. David Marwell (Director, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY)
Sir Malcolm Rifkind (MP, House of Commons; former UK Foreign Secretary)
Congressman Henry Waxman (US House of Representatives; Chair Energy and Commerce Committee)

Chair of the Executive Committee:

Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack

Management Committee:

Chair:	Dr. Chanan Rapaport (Jerusalem)
Members:	Prof. Yona Ettinger (Jerusalem) Mr. Jean-Pierre Stroweis (Jerusalem) Mrs. Mathilde Tagger (Jerusalem) Prof. Daniel Wagner (Rehovot)

Finance Committee:

Chair:	Dr. Chanan Rapaport (Jerusalem)
Member:	Mr. Alain Farhi (New York) Dr. Saul Issroff (London)

Oversight Committee:

Chair:	Mr. Shmuel Shoshan (Tel Aviv)
Members:	Mr. Gary Mokotoff (New Jersey)

Academic Committee:

Chair:	Prof. Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University)
Vice-Chair:	Prof. Jeffery Malka (University of Maryland)
Members:	Dr. Alexander Beider (Sorbonne, Paris) Dr. Doron Behar (University of Haifa) Prof. Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan) Prof. Michel Levy (Paris) Prof. Aubrey Newman (University of Leicester) Dr. Chanan Rapaport (Jerusalem) Mr. Jean-Pierre Stroweis (Jerusalem) Prof. Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute) Rabbi Meir Wunder (Jerusalem)

Teaching Committee:

Chair:	Prof. Aaron Demsky (Bar Ilan University)
Deputy Chair:	Prof. Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University)
Members:	Dr. Ronald Doctor (University of Oregon) Dr. Neville Lamdan (Director, IIJG) Dr. Rose Lerer Cohen (Hebrew University) Prof. Jona Schellekens (Hebrew University) Prof. Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University) Dr. Chanan Rapaport (Deputy Chair, IIJG) Prof. Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute)
Consultants:	Dr. Margalit Bejerano (Hebrew University) Dr. Michael Gillis (Hebrew University) Prof. Harvey E. Goldberg (Hebrew University) Prof. Gershon D. Hundert (McGill University) Dr. Rachel Levmore (Lindenbaum Institute) Prof. Martin Lockshin (York University) Prof. Dan Michman (Bar Ilan U., Yad Vashem) Dr. Rami Reiner (Ben Gurion University) Dr. Jeffery Woolf (Bar Ilan University) Rabbi Meir Wunder (National Library of Israel)

Legal Advisor

Adv. Rony Golan, Ll.B. (Tel Aviv)

Accountants

Barzily & Co. (Certified Accountants, Jerusalem)