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Ariel Sterngold Joins public management

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Ariel Sterngold is an entrepreneur and business leader with a longstanding track record in developing and scaling innovative consumer and hospitality focused technologies. He brings extensive experience in product development, go-to-market strategy, and multi-unit operations, blending deep R&D experience with the ability to build strong commercial partnerships across sectors including retail, hospitality, corporate, and wellness environments.

He brings a practical, growth oriented perspective to organizational leadership and is known for bridging strategic thinking with hands on execution. His work emphasizes innovation, operational excellence, and creating solutions that deliver meaningful value to both businesses and end users.

Ariel is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has attended Harvard Business School Owner/President Management (OPM) program, and is actively involved with Succat Shalom, reflecting his deep commitment to education, leadership development, and community service.

He lives with his wife and four children in Jerusalem and is committed to balancing family, business, and service to the community.

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David Hatchwell Altaras joins public management

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David Hatchwell Altaras holds an MBA in International Business and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

In his professional life, Mr. Hatchwell serves as Chairman of his family office, 3H, whose investments range from real estate to content production. He is also Chairman of 2H, a joint venture for the Spanish-speaking world with Hackman Capital, the leading studio production investment and management company in the world. Until June 2025, he served as Chairman of Excem Grupo, a diversified international family group founded by his late father, leading philanthropist and visionary Mauricio Hatchwell Toledano (Z”L).

From 1992 to 2000, David lived in Beijing, where he developed operations in China, achieving more than 20 projects across various sectors, including owning the rights to Real Madrid in Asia from 2003 to 2008. He also chairs a Real Estate Investment Trust, SITUR, which is a major hostel owner and operator in the Iberian Peninsula.

David Hatchwell has held several leadership roles in the global Jewish community. He served as President of the Jewish Community of Madrid from 2011 to 2017. He is currently a member of the Genesis Prize selection committee and serves on the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation International Board of Governors.

In 2015, Mr. Hatchwell co-founded the Fundación HispanoJudía, an NGO which he chairs. The foundation is dedicated to building a Hispanic Jewish Museum in Madrid, with the goal of fostering bridges of mutual understanding between the Spanish-speaking and Jewish worlds.

He has been a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) since 2005, where he has served on various committees and as Chair of the Madrid Chapter. He has been a member of the Board of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain’s most prestigious technological university.

David Hatchwell is the executive producer and one of the anchor investors of Malinche the Musical, the No. 1 musical show in both Spain and Mexico, created by megastar Nacho Cano. The show celebrates diversity and the deep historical ties between Spain and Mexico. He is also a producer of several successful live shows (including Ibiza Paradise) and various documentaries on musical and historical themes.

Over the last 40 years, David and his family have contributed to numerous philanthropic projects in Israel, Spain, and China. He and his wife, Natalia, and their three children (Yavne, Dayan, and Magen) divide their time between Madrid and Jerusalem.

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Brig. Gen. (res.) Effi Eitam

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Former commander of the IDF’s Galilee Division. Served as leader of the National Religious Party in the Knesset and a member of the foreign affairs and defense committee, and as Minister of Housing and Minister of National Infrastructures in the Sharon governments, and a member of the security cabinet. Serves as a member of the “Nagel Committee” on Israel’s defense budget, appointed by the Prime Minister

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Mr. Robert Greenway Joins the Misgav Institute for National Security’s International Advisory Council

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Robert Greenway is the Director of the Allison Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, where he is responsible for the development of policies which promote a strong national defense safeguarding American freedom and prosperity. He previously served as President and Executive Director of the Abraham Accords Peace Institute. Mr. Greenway has more than 30 years of experience in public service, culminating as the senior U.S. government official responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing U.S. government policy for all of the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council. Prior to service on the NSC, he served as a Senior Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and a combat veteran of the United States Army Special Forces. 

While Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council’s Middle Eastern and North African Affairs Directorate, he planned and executed the United States’ most significant economic sanctions since the Cold War as part of a broad strategy for Iran. He was a principal architect of the historic Abraham Accords, the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in Middle East peace since 1994. He personally supervised the development of the first-ever presidentially approved strategies for Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Israel, and was instrumental in the removal of the world’s most dangerous terrorist leaders. He coordinated the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIS, resulting in the liberation of the 20,000 square miles of territory it controlled, and the elimination of its leadership in Syria and Iraq. 

Before being assigned to the NSC he served at the Defense Intelligence Agency as a Senior Intelligence Officer in U.S. Central Command. Mr. Greenway retired from active duty prior to joining the DIA having commanded Special Forces units at every level from Team through Battalion. He holds a master’s degree with Honors from Webster University and a bachelor’s degree from the Virginia Military Institute.

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Nobel Laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann Joins the Misgav Institute’s International Advisory Council

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Prof. Yisrael (Robert) Aumann joined the mathematics department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956 and has been there ever since. In 1990, he was among the founders of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University, an interdisciplinary research center centered on game theory. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers and seven books, and has held visiting positions at Princeton, Yale, Berkeley, Louvain, Stanford, Stony Brook, and NYU.

In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Prof. Aumann was born in 1930 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to a well-to-do Orthodox Jewish family. The family fled Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States in 1938, settling in New York. In the process, his parents lost everything, but nevertheless gave their two children an excellent Jewish and general education. Aumann attended yeshiva elementary and high schools, obtained a bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York in 1950, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT in 1955.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the British Academy, the Academia Europaea and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago, Bonn, Louvain, City University of New York, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas). He is married and had five children; the oldest was killed in IDF service in Lebanon in 1982. Also, he has twenty-one grandchildren, and thirty-eight great-grandchildren.

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Is Normalization on the Horizon?
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Is Normalization on the Horizon?

Misgav Institute
Misgav Institute

27/05/2024

Monday | 12:30–15:30 IL time | Live on INSS digital platforms

A joint conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy. The conference will be broadcast live on the digital platforms of both INSS and the Misgav Institute.

Timetable

12:30 – Opening Remarks

Brig. Gen. (res.) Udi Dekel, Head of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Program, INSS

Ronen Levi (Maoz), Senior Fellow, Misgav Institute

12:50 – Special Interview | Head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi

Interviewer: Tal Schneider, Political-Military Correspondent, Times of Israel

13:20 – How to Advance Normalization After October 7?

Dr. Yoel Guzansky, Head of the Gulf Program and Senior Researcher, INSS

Asher Fredman, Senior Managing Fellow, Misgav Institute

Aryeh Lightstone, Former US Special Envoy for Economic Normalization

Ruth Wasserman Lande, Senior Fellow, Misgav Institute

Moderator: Maj. Gen. (res.) Udi Dekel

14:05 – Normalization and the Peace Countries

Dr. Moran Zaga, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mitvim Institute

Eitan Naeh, Ambassador of Israel to Bahrain

Dr. Ofir Winter, Senior Researcher, INSS

Mena Ta-Shma, Head of the Regional Division, Directorate of Defense Research and Development, Ministry of Defense

Moderator: Fleur Hassan-Nahum, Senior Fellow, Misgav Institute

14:50 – Regional Normalization: Iran, Iraq, and the Palestinians | Panel Discussion

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, Executive Director, INSS

Meir Ben Shabbat, Head of the Misgav Institute

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Former US National Security Advisor Amb. Robert C. O’Brien
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Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien joins the Misgav Institute’s International Advisory Council

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Misgav Institute

Amb. O’Brien, co-founder and chairman of American Global Strategies LLC, served as the 27th US National Security Advisor (NSA) from 2019 – 2021, serving as the President’s principal advisor on all aspects of American foreign policy and national security affairs.

During O’Brien’s tenure, the United States orchestrated the historic Abraham Accords in the Middle East, brokered economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, achieved significant defense spending increases among NATO allies and increased cooperation with America’s allies across the Indo-Pacific.

Prior to serving as NSA, O’Brien was the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs with the personal rank of Ambassador. He was directly involved in the return of over 25 detainees and hostages to the United States. O’Brien previously served as Co-Chairman of the U.S. Department of State Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan under both Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton.

Earlier in his career, O’Brien served as a Senior Legal Officer for the UN Security Council commission that decided claims against Iraq arising out of the first Gulf War. He was a Major in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve.

O’Brien is the recipient of the National Security Medal, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the National Defense Medal, the Legion d’honneur (chevalier), the Republic of China (Taiwan) Order of the Brilliant Star with Special Grand Cordon and the Kosovo Presidential Medal of Merits.  

In July 2022, O’Brien was elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Richard Nixon Foundation. O’Brien is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy and a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at the Columbia University Institute of Global Politics. He serves as the Chairman of the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) Task Force on US-Taiwan Relations. He is also a co-chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention.

O’Brien holds a J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. He received his B.A. degree in political science, cum laude, from UCLA.

Meir Ben Shabbat and Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien

Meir Ben Shabbat and Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien

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