About SID-Israel

Zafrir Asaf is a partner at Blue-Laurel, a consulting company that promotes business opportunities under complex conditions, mainly in the Arabian Gulf. Mr. Asaf served in the past as the director of the emerging markets and development economy department at the Ministry of Economy and Industry in Israel, and was also the head of the Israeli economic and trade delegation to Vietnam.

Ilanit Litai is the director of the Ein Mezion organization. She began working there in 2014, and was the organization's operations manager. Ms. Litai has a master's degree in public policy from Tel Aviv University . She has close to 25 years experience in management positions in the tourism industry, specializing and focusing on managing international conferences and working with large groups. Ms. Litai has worked for several years together with civil society organizations in both paid and voluntary positions.

Ariel Dloomy was part of the founding team of SID-Israel and served as the first CEO of the organization and then as the chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Dloomy has many years of experience in community development work and promoting a common society in Israel, the Middle East and the developing world. Ariel currently serves as the CEO of the Bracha Philanthropic Foundation. Before that, he served as joint CEO of the AJIC-Institute of the Negev organization, in which he was involved in the development and operation of large-scale programs in the fields of health, employment, peace education and volunteering in Israel and in developing countries around the world. Mr. Dloomy has a master's degree in Middle East politics from the University of London and an additional master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.

Naftali Moser has been active in the fields of economic development and international development for many years. Mr. Moser worked at the Israel–USA Binational Foundation and then at the Peres Peace Center, where he worked closely with the World Bank and the US government. He also initiated and led the Israel–India innovation project at Mossad Na'im at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Mr. Moser holds degrees in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Shay Bialik is the director of ethics and global sustainability at the Strauss Group. Ms. Bialik specializes in sustainable development and working with international organizations. In the past, she worked as a consultant for economic–social affairs in the Israeli delegation to the United Nations in New York, as well as in the Israeli delegation to the OECD, UNESCO, and the Council of Europe in Paris. In this framework, she represented Israel in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. Ms. Bialik has a master's degree in development policy and economic analysis from the New School University in New York, and a bachelor's degree in history and international relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sciences Po in Paris. In 2023, Shay received an award from the United Nations for her activities to promote sustainable development goals (SDG Pioneer).

Yotam Polizer is the CEO of the IsraAID organization. In his role, he leads a team of 300+ activists who are currently in 14 countries, including a large-scale operation in war-torn Ukraine. In 2023, Mr. Polizer won the Charles Bronfman Award for his activities. He has 15 years of experience in education, humanitarian aid and international development and has led humanitarian missions and activities in Greece, Germany, Japan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and Nepal. Prior to his work in Israel, Mr. Polizer worked at the Israeli Embassy in Nepal and was the program coordinator of the Tel Aviv University and the Israel Open University where he studied African studies and international relations.

Ivri Verbin is the CEO of Good Vision, a company specializing in corporate responsibility. His work deals with the planning, management, and implementation of corporate responsibility and ethics' programs for leading corporations. Mr. Verbin lectures and writes on these topics at Tel Aviv Academic College, and is the author of Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Age published in Hebrew by in English by Routledge. He has served as an economic advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and a senior assistant to the director general of the Office for Regional Cooperation. Additionally, he has worked at the Peres Peace Center as a special projects manager. Mr. Verbin is a member of the executive committee of various organizations and also serves as the chairman of the audit committee at the Society for the Protection of Nature.

Dan Catarivas is the chairman of the umbrella organization of the Israel Binational Chambers of Commerce (IFBC), and a senior advisor on international affairs at the Manufacturers Association of Israel (MAI). Prior to that, he served for 17 years as the director general of foreign trade and international relations at the MAI and worked for 25 years with the Israeli government. His last position in the government was as the deputy director general for international affairs at the Ministry of Finance. In 1994, before his position at the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Catarivas established the Middle East Department in the Foreign Trade Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as the chairman of the trade committee of the Multilateral Economic Negotiations (REDWG). Mr. Catarivas served as Israel's first economic advisor in Beijing, China, and between 1982 and 1984 he served as the representative of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment in Beirut, Lebanon. He has a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a master's degree in economics from LSE in the field of European economic integration. He also holds a diploma from College D'Europe in Bruges, Belgium, in advanced European studies.

Prof. Bruria Adini is the head of the Department of Emergency and Disaster Management at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Adini served in the IDF Medical Corps for 17 years. She started serving as a senior consultant to the Ministry of Health in 2000 for the preparation and operation of the health system for emergencies and, since 1987, she has specialized in the preparation and response of health systems for high casualty events and disasters. Prof. Adini managed on behalf of the Ministry of Health and in collaboration with the World Health Organization various training programs, in Israel and abroad, aimed at developing and promoting emergency preparedness and increasing the skills of managers and staff of health institutions to deal with disasters. She is a board member of the organization of local authorities dealing with emergencies and disasters (LACDE) and a member of the National Council for Trauma and Emergency Medicine. Prof. Adini served as a board member of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine (WADEM) for two terms.