Yonatan Ariel, Executive Director  - Yonatan lectures widely in his fields of interest: Contemporary Jewry, Educational Policy-Making and Experiential Education, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University. read more.>>   E-mail : yonatana@jafi.org Tel : 972-2-6216348  Fax : 972-2-6216149
	Rabbi Reuven Greenvald, Director of Community Initiatives - Reuven Greenvald was a day school educator for over twenty years, serving in teaching and administrative capacities. At the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD), read more >> E-mail : reuvengre@jafi.org Tel : 212-339-6017  Fax : 212-318-6193
	Robbie Gringras, Artist in Residence  - Robbie is a British-born Israeli living in the Galilee, working in professional theatre and as Artist-in-Residence for the Makōm Israel engagement network in the Jewish Agency for Israel. With Makōm he works with Israeli artists  read more >> E-mail : robbiegringras@gmail.com
	Esti Moskovitz-Kalman, Deputy Director and Director of Education - Esti served in the Israeli Defense forces as an officer and commander, the first woman to attend the Combat Officer Training Course (until then only open to men).   Following her four year army service, read more >>   E-mail : estim@jafi.org Tel : 972-2-6216332  Fax : 972-2-6216149
	Vadim Blumin  - Historian, professional and activist in fields of Jewish Education and Civil Society in Israel and Jewish communities in FSU. Until recently, head of the Education Department in St. Petersburg. Russia, as JAFI Emissary. Content & Training Specialist in "MAKOM" – vision and content incubator of the Jewish Agency for Israel Engagement programming. Member of the Jewish Pluralism Committee at the New Israel Fund. Member of Content Committee at the Limmud-FSU.read more>>   E-mail : vadimblm@gmail.com Tel : 972-2-621381   Fax : 972-2-6216149
	Cynthia Tzvibel-Navon - Director Operations, Cynthia holds a BA in Criminology, Sociology and Anthropology from Bar-Ilan University as well as an MA in Criminology fromthe Hebrew University of Jerusalem. read more >>   E-mail : cynthiatn@jafi.org Tel : 972-2-6216059  Fax : 972-2-6216149
	Rami Wernik, North American Director of MAKOM, was born in New York and raised in Jerusalem. He received two B.A. degrees, in General Philosophy and Jewish Studies, from The Hebrew University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. He holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University as well as an M.A. in Religious Studies from Stanford University.  Rami is writing his doctoral dissertation on civic education in Israel for the school of education at Stanford.  read more>>  E-mail : ramiw@jafi.org Tel : 310-254-5984
	Elisheva Kupferman is an Olah from New York now living in Jerusalem. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and Jewish History from Bar Ilan University, and an M.A. in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As an educator, Elisheva coordinated gap year programming for Bnei Akiva for three years, and ran summer leadership courses for teens. She has worked in the Jerusalem nonprofit sector for several years, and joined Makōm in 2010 to integrate these two passions: Jewish education and nonprofit leadership   E-mail ekupferman@gmail.com
	Raffi Bannai Makōm Expert in Teaching Hebrew as a Second Language - Raffi is a fifth-generation Jerusalemite. He served in the IDF for seven years and spent most of that time as a commanding officer in charge of the unity for Hebrew Language and Jewish Studies for new immigrant recruits.  read more >> E-mail : rafhelb@jafi.org Tel : 972-2-6216176  Fax : 972-2-6216149