Chaliva, Colonel Aaron, commander of officer training base, Bahad 1, IDF; December 2008.
Chase, Al, founder, White Rhino Partners; February 2009.
Cohen, Eliot A., counselor to the State Department; former director of the Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; January 2009.
Davidson, Christopher M., author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success; March 2009.
Davis, Tim, director, Entrepreneurship Indicators Project, OECD; March 2009.
De Haan, Uzi, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion; July 2008.
Dermer, Ron, former economic attaché, Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., and senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; September 2008.
Dilian, Colonel Tal (res.), former 8100 chief; member of the board of directors, Atidim; May 2008.
Doron, Daniel, president, Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress; August 2008.
Dotan, Yuval (fictitious name), fighter pilot, Israeli Air Force; May 2008.
Edelstein, Yuli, former minister of absorption; member of Knesset; May 2008.
Eden, Shmuel (Mooly), vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel; November 2008.
Edry, Illy, founder and chief strategist, Poptok; May 2008.
Eisenberg, Michael, partner, Benchmark Capital; May 2009.
Elias, Asher, Tech Careers; March 2009.
Epstein, Asher, director, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland; May 2008.
Erlich, Yigal, founder, chairman, and managing partner, Yozma Group; May 2008.
Farhi, Major Gilad, commander in the Kfir infantry unit, IDF; November 2008.
Fick, Nathaniel, chief operating officer, Center for a New American Security; author, One Bullet Away; March 2008.
Friedman, Thomas, columnist, New York Times; April 2009.
Galil, Uzia, chairman and CEO, Uzia Initiatives & Management Ltd; July 2008.
Gerson, Mark, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group; January 2009.
Gidron, Rafi, and Orni Petruschka, cofounders, Precede Technologies, Chromatis Networks, and Scorpio Communications; December 2008.
Giladi, Brigadier General Eival (res.), CEO, Portland Trust; March 2009.
Goren, Amos, venture partner, Apax Partners; January 2009.
Grinstein, Gidi, founder and president, Reut Institute; May and August 2008.
Gross, Yossi, director and cofounder, TransPharma Medical; founder of many medical-device start-ups; December 2008.
Hamed, Colonel Ramiz, head of the Minorities Unit, Human Resources Branch, IDF; November 2008.
Harris, Clinton P., founder and managing partner, Grove Street Advisors; founder and former managing director, Advent International; January 2009.
Haug, Laurent, founder and CEO, Lift Conference; May 2009.
Hausmann, Ricardo, former Venezuelan minister of state and current director of the Harvard Center for International Development; February 2009.
Ivri, David, former ambassador to the United States and former chief commander of the Israeli Air Force; December 2008.
Kagan, Frederick W., military historian; resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI); December 2008.
Kaplinsky, Major General Moshe (res.), CEO, Better Place Israel; November 2008.
Kaufmann, Yadin, founding partner, Veritas Venture Partners; December 2008.
Keinan, Tal, cofounder, KCPS; May and December 2008.
Kerbs, Gil, venture capitalist and contributor to Forbes; January 2009.
Ketels, Christian H. M., economist, member of the Harvard Business School faculty and of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; March 2009.
Kohlberg, Isaac T., senior associate provost and chief technology development officer, Harvard University; January 2009.
Kranz, Eugene (Gene) F., former flight director and manager, NASA; May 2009.
Laor, Michael, founder of Cisco Systems Development Center in Israel; February 2009.
Lipow, Jonathan, Department of Economics, Oberlin University; May 2008.
Lipsky, David, author, Absolutely American; March 2009.
Lowry, Colonel John (res.), general manager, Harley-Davidson Motor Company; November 2008.
Luttwak, Edward, senior associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); December 2008.
Luttwak, Yael, former commander in tank gunnery course, IDF; documentary filmmaker; August 2008.
Maarek, Yoelle, former director, Google’s R&D Center in Haifa, Israel; January 2009.
Maoz, Darya, anthropologist, the Hebrew University; June 2009.
Margalit, Erel, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP); May 2008.
Matanya, Aviatar, senior officer, Talpiot program; December 2008.
Matias, Yossi, director, Google’s R&D Center in Tel Aviv, Israel; January 2009.
McLaughlin, Andrew, director, public policy and government affairs for Google; January 2009.
McMaster, Brigadier General H. R., U.S. Army; May 2009.
McWilliams, David, Irish economist; July 2009.
Medved, Jon, CEO and board member, Vringo; May 2008.
Messer-Yaron, Hagit, president, Open University; January 2009.
Mitchell, Lesa, vice president, Kauffman Foundation; March 2009.
Mlavsky, Ed, chairman and founding partner, Gemini Israel Funds; December 2008.
Molla, Shlomo (Neguse), member of Knesset, Kadima Party; March 2009.
Moralli, Dorit, owner, El Lobo restaurant and guesthouse in La Paz, Bolivia; March 2009.
Nagel, Brigadier General Jacob (res.), deputy director of Mafat, IDF; December 2008.
Netanyahu, Benjamin, prime minister of Israel; December 2008.
Newbold, General Gregory (ret.), former director of operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff; May 2009.
Ofer, Idan, chairman of the board, Better Place; December 2008.
Oren, Michael, senior fellow, Shalem Center; May 2008.
Peled, Dan, Department of Economics, University of Haifa; July 2008.
Peres, Chemi, cofounder and managing general, Pitango VC; December 2008.
Peres, Shimon, president of Israel; December 2008.
Peretz, Shay, CEO, DefenSoft Planning Systems; December 2008.
Perlmutter, David, executive vice president and general manager, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation; January 2009.
Petraeus, General David, commander, U.S. Central Command; May 2009.
Porter, Michael E., professor of economics, Harvard Business School; founder and chairman, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC); institute director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; cofounder, Monitor Group; March 2009.
Pulver, Jeff, founder and chief executive, Pulver.com; August 2008.
Rabinovich, Abraham, author of The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East; May 2009.
Rezk, Amr, EFG-Hermes; March 2009.
Riesenfeld, Tal, IDF Special Forces (res.); cofounder, EyeView; December 2008.
Ron, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan (res.), IDF; attorney, Ron-Festinger Law Offices; December 2008.
Rosenberg, David, Bloomberg Jerusalem bureau; former business editor, Jerusalem Post; former chief North American economist, Merrill Lynch; May 2008.
Samet, Yoav, corporate development manager for Israel, Central/Eastern Europe, and Russia/CIS, Cisco Systems Inc.; January 2009.
Schell, Jessica, vice president of NBC Universal, Inc.; April and June 2008.
Schmidt, Eric, chairman and CEO, Google; June 2009.
Schramm, Carl J., president and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; March 2009.
Schroeder, Alice, author of The Snowball; January 2009.
Sela, Michael, Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science; December 2008.
Senior eBay executive, background interview; September 2008.
Shainberg, Gary, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom; May and August 2008.