Sherri Mandell founded the Koby Mandell Foundation which runs programs for bereaved families in Israel, along with her husband, Rabbi Seth Mandell.  Sherri Mandell’s book, “The Blessing of a Broken Heart,” won a National Jewish Book Award in 2004. Mandell’s son, Koby Mandell, was a U.S. citizen brutally murdered at age 13 by Palestinian terrorists near his home in May, 2001. Sherri Mandell was born in New York and writes for numerous magazines and journals, including The Washington Post, The Denver Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, as well as Hadassah Magazine.

Dr. Alan Bauer, an American citizen living in Israel, and his young son were seriously injured in 2002 by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem. Bauer and his son Jonathan were walking on King George Street in downtown Jerusalem on March 21, 2002, when a terrorist from Arafat’s Fatah movement blew himself up. His explosive device was packed with metal spikes and nails, in order to inflict the maximum amount of pain and destruction and the defenseless Israeli civilians walking by. Three passersby were killed, 87 were wounded. Dr. Bauer and Jonathan were hit by multiple metal projectiles. Two of the metal spikes penetrated little Jonathan’s brain. Dr. Alan Bauer, a Harvard educated biologist, has been seeking justice ever since the attack.

Sarah Stern, the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). EMET educates members of Congress and their staffers through monthly seminars about the Middle East. Sarah has more than 30 years of experience on Capitol Hill, and has helped to draft and pass many pieces of legislation, speeches and congressional resolution including the Koby Mandell Act which resulted in the opening of an office in the Department of Justice entitled the Office for Justice of Victims of Overseas Terrorism which is supposed to be an advocacy group within the Department of Justice for Americans who have been killed and wounded abroad; the Syria Accountability Act; and a Resolution in support of Israel’s right to build a security fence and defend her citizens the way they deem appropriate. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Middle East Quarterly, Israel Today, Frontpagemag.com; Breitbart, InFocus, The American Thinker, The Jerusalem Post and the Washington Jewish Week. She has appeared on television and radio, and has spoken throughout the country, in Israel and on Al Hurrah which is carried throughout the Middle East, on The Middle East, terrorism, Post Zionism, Israel, and related issues.