Yechiel Leiter served as Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Education and was Chief of Staff to Benjamin Netanyahu at the Ministry of Finance. He earlier served as a political assistant to Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. He has written three books and dozens of articles on Zionism and Israeli politics, and has lectured extensively. He holds a degree in law, an MA in international relations, and is currently writing his doctoral thesis at Haifa University.

Dan Diker is Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs and Foreign Policy Analyst at The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ (www.jcpa.org) headed by Israel's former UN Ambassador, Dr. Dore Gold.  Mr. Diker is also   editor and contributing author of the JCPA’s 2008 policy book ; Iran’s Race for Regional Supremacy : A New Conflict Paradigm for the Middle East.