Kol Israel Leadership

As mentioned, Kol Israel is made up of the two General Zionist Factions in the World Zionist Congress – World Confederation of United Zionists (CUZ) and Tnuat Hamerkaz Haliberalit Hanoar Hatzioni (TH4). Below are the members of the Kol Israel team who carry the faction forward through their work in our partner organizations and representation in the National Institutions.

David Yaari

Chairman, Kol Israel and CUZ

David Yaari

David is the Chairman of the World Confederation of the United Zionists and Kol Israel – General Zionists. He is also the Founding Director General of the Arizona Israel Trade and Investment Office. David holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from New York University’s Stern School of Business. David served as a gunner in the Tank corps of the IDF and worked in Washington for Senator Dan Coats from Indiana. David currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Keren Keyemet LeYisrael (KKL)/Jewish National Fund, Israel’s Society for International Development, and Israel’s Nature and Heritage Foundation- Israel’s National Parks Service הקרן לרשות הטבע והגנים. David and his wife Sivan, founder of Innovation: Africa, live in Herzliya with their three children, Aaron, Emily, and Adam.

Nisan Cialik

Honorary Chairman, Kol Israel

Nisan Cialik

Position: Honorary Chairman, Kol Israel

Arie Edelheit

Secretary-General, Kol Israel

Arie Edelheit

Arie Edelheit is Kol Israel’s Secretary-General. Arie made Aliyah from Argentina in 1966 at the age of 23. In his first years in Israel, he worked in agriculture in his Kibbutz, Nitzanim. Over the years Arie filled a long list of central positions in Hanoar Hatzioni, TH4, and Kibbutz Nitzanim. In addition, he served as an emissary (Shaliach) on behalf of KKL to Brazil and Hanoar Hatzioni to Latin America. Today he deals with varied areas such as the physical planning of Nitzanim and youth villages as part of the “Yesodot” organization.

Alex Bitterman

Head of the Latin America Department, Hanoar Hatzioni

Alex Bitterman

Position: Head of the Latin America Department, Hanoar Hatzioni

Esther Renzer

Representative, Jewish Agency Board of Governors

Esther Renzer

Position: Representative, Jewish Agency Board of Governors

Gabriel Degen

Representative, Jewish Agency Board of Governors

Gabriel Degen

Position: Representative, Jewish Agency Board of Governors

Jesse Sultanik

Former chairman, CUZ

Jesse Sultanik

Jesse Sultanik is a former chairperson of the World Confederation of United Zionists, a current member of its Board of Directors, and is currently a Director of Business Development at Argus Cyber Security, a leading provider of cybersecurity software and services for the automotive industry. Jesse is an expert in connected mobility and related regulations and standards. A former founder of an Israeli Hi-Tech firm, Jesse holds an MBA from Bar-Ilan University and a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Leor Sinai

Head of the Jewish Agenct subcommittee on the absorption of Youth Aliyah

Leor Sinai

Leor Sinai is a global thought leader in the field of Education Diplomacy, a Legacy Heritage Foundation Fellow, and a Doctoral Candidate in the field of Education Leadership and currently serves as the Senior Director of Israel Education at RootOne – an ambitious new initiative of The Jewish Education Project that aims to help bring tens of thousands of N. American Jewish teens to Israel on immersive summer teen trips. Sinai has traveled around the world on speaking tours, building bridges, and motivating influential actors toward advancing global Jewish – Israel relations. In 2009 he received his Rabbinic Ordination and master’s degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). Originally from New York, Sinai made Aliyah with his family in 2011.

Made Walter

Secretary-General, Hejalutz Lamerjav

Made Walter

Position: Secretary-General, Hejalutz Lamerjav

Olga Deutsch

Representative, Extended Zionist Executive

Olga Deutsch

Olga Israel Deutsch is Kol Israel’s director of European outreach and representative on the Zionist Executive. She serves as vice president of the Israeli applied research institute, NGO Monitor. Olga brings extensive experience in international politics and Europe-Israel relations and is an expert in advocacy and building effective strategies to address attempts to delegitimize Israel, BDS, and modern antisemitism. Olga graduated from the University of Belgrade and the University of Munich with degrees in banking, insurance, and finance. She was awarded a Fellowship with the Ford Motor Company, graduating as a Community Leader at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in New York. Before making Aliya in 2009, she served as the Chairperson of the European Union of Jewish Students, an umbrella organization for 34 national unions. Olga is fluent in Serbian, English, Hebrew, and German. She is married and a mother of two.

Pablo Lamm

Treasurer, TH4

Pablo Lamm

Position: Treasurer, TH4

Quique Rosenburt

Head of Latin America Outreach, CUZ

Quique Rosenburt

Quique Rosenburt is the former Secretary-General of the Hejalutz Lamerjav youth movement and chairman of the World Zionist Youth Movements Council. Hejalutz Lamerjav is part of the Kibbutz movement in Israel and works to strengthen pluralistic, Zionist Judaism around the world in order to create a just society in Israel. Quique also has a background in social entrepreneurship and community social work. Quique considers himself a Zionist Jewish educator and is heavily connected to Israeli society and world Jewry.

Rachel Gur

Representative, Jewish Agency Board of Governors

Rachel Gur

Rachel Gur, Adv., is a member of Kol Israel’s leadership team and its representative on the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors. As an Israeli- American who made Aliya at age 17, Rachel is committed to bridging the gap between Israel and world Jewry. She is an expert in the fields of Israeli legislation, regulation, and public policy. Gur holds an L.L.B. and B.A. in political science from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and an L.L.M in Legal Theory from New York University Law School.

Romi Morales

Head of Education, Hanoar Hazioni

Romi Morales

Romi Morales is currently Head of Education at Hanoar Hatzioni Olami. She has a bachelor’s degree in Education Sciences (UBA) and a master’s degree in Administration, Policy and Leadership in Education (HUJI). She has been teaching an “Introduction to Education” course at the Machon LeMadrihim for more than a decade and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of non-formal education within youth movements.

Sarri Singer

Treasurer, CUZ

Sarri Singer

Position: Treasurer, CUZ

Sergio Edelstein

Head, WZO Department of Pioneering Youth and Future Generations

Sergio Edelstein

Sergio Edelstein was born in Uruguay and was educated in the Jewish education system and the youth movement “Hanoar Hatzioni”, where he served as an educator and madrich. Sergio is a graduate of the Machon L’Madrichei Chutz Le’Aretz in Jerusalem. He made Aliyah in 1985 and completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Educational Management. Today, he serves as the head of the WZO Department for Pioneering Youth and Future Generations and on the Zionist Executive on behalf of Kol Israel.