Avraham Burg

Former Speaker of the Kenesset

Avraham “Avrum” Burg (Hebrew: אברהם “אברוּם” בוּרג; born 19 January 1955) is an Israeli author, politician, and businessman.[1] He was a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset, and interim President of Israel. He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israel after its declaration of independence in 1948. A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.[2]

Muhammed Hassan Kanaan

Arab Bloc Leader

Kanaan worked as a high school teacher in Tamra (1979), and then

Deputy Mayor of Tamra from 1980 to 1988, and then Chairman of the Board of Directors in Tamra (1989–1981), and President of the Association. He has been with Al-Sadaqa in Tamra since 1985 and became the general manager in The Arab Democratic Party in the years 1989–1990, He is a member of the Committee for the Appointment of Sharia Judges and has served as a member of

The Knesset on the United Arab List and the Nationalist Party

Al-Arabi in December (2008), and Kanaan joined the Centrist Party

Al-Arabi came in second on the Knesset list.

Ghadir Hani

Women Wage Peace

Ghadir Hani (Arabic: غدير هاني; born November 3, 1977) is an Arab-Israeli educator and mediator, columnist, social activist, and advocate for Jewish-Arab coexistence. She is a member of the leadership of the Standing Together movement and the Women Wage Peace movement. She is the recipient of the 2018 Sami Michael Award for Social Activism, the 2020 Israeli Hope Award for Promoting Partnership in Israeli Society, the 2024 Goldberg Award, the 2025 Raya Foundation Award, the Luxembourg Prize for 2025, and the Ben-Gurion Award for 2025.

Avi Shaked

Businessman, Politician

Avi Shaked is a pioneering tech entrepreneur and co-founder of 888.com (now Evoke plc), which was founded in Israel and now employs 12,000 people. A graduate of Ben-Gurion University, he has led ventures across telecommunications, online gaming, and digital innovation. Alongside his business achievements, Avi is a passionate advocate for peace, dedicating his time and resources to advancing Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and reconciliation. His career reflects a commitment to both bold innovation and bridge-building diplomacy. In 2025, Avi became co-chairman of Israel’s “Together We Succeed” party, which promotes equality between Jews and Arabs and aims to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. https://avishaked.com/

Deacon Jiries Mansour, PhD

Christian Education in Israel

Deacon Jiries is a Co-Founder of the Abrahamic Reunion, and oversees Christian Education & Schools in Israel. He is a Christian Arab, Deacon in the Greek Catholic Church, former Principal of St Anthony’s Middle School in the town of Rama (Rame) in the Galilee. Under Jiries’ leadership, a new school has been developed in Rama promoting interfaith tolerance. He has also organized numerous youth interfaith projects and events. Jiries has his doctorate in the role of Christians in peace in the Middle East.

Dr. Warda Sada

Women Wage Peace

Dr. Warda Saada is an educator and activist in the fields of human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and workers’ rights. She is committed to encouraging healthy public dialogue that connects different sectors of society and advocates for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She is an active member of more than twenty local and international organizations working for peace, and through her social and humanitarian engagement, she strives to promote the values of justice, human dignity, coexistence, and dialogue among peoples and communities.

Professor Mohammed Hujirat

Politician and Political Commentator

Sheikh Hasan Tarif

Druze Sheikh

Sheikh Hasan is the son of Druze Spiritual Leader Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, and a Sheikh in the Druze Faith.

Dr. Khalid Abu Ras

Abrahamic Reunion Israel

Dr. Khalid Abu Ras is a research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Abu Ras lectures on Sufism and contemporary Muslim thought at Bar Ilan University, and today he is a lecturer in Arabic language and literature at the Kay Academic College of Education in Beer Sheva.

Dr. Khalid is the Imam of Al-IMAN Mosque in Ilut, outside Nazareth, in the North of Israel, an educator, Arabic Language and Literature teacher in High Schools and Secondary Schools, and has worked for YESODOT Center for Torah & Democracy in Jerusalem, Anwar al-Salaam the Lights of Peace Association Founder & Co-Director in Nazareth, Yakar Center in Jerusalem, and many other interfaith and intercultural initiatives over the last 25 years. He has his PhD in Arabic Studies from Bar-Ilan University.

Abed Manasra

Abrahamic Reunion Programs Director

Sheikh Abed Alsalam Manasra is the Programs Director for the Abrahamic Reunion. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Tariqat Qadriyya As-Salaam (Qadiri Sufi Order Of Peace in the Holy Land), in which his father is also a Sheikh, and his Grandfather, Abdelsalam Manasra, is the Head Sheikh. He is a musician, performing classical Arabic and Sufi music and hymns with his wife, and works with young adults and youth to organize interfaith dialogue and gatherings in and around Nazareth.  [email protected]

David Less

Abrahamic Reunion Co-Founder, US Chair

David Less is a global teacher of meditation, conflict resolution and inter-faith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he has been the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries, that honors the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences. He started promoting understanding rather than blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land in 2000 and was one of the founders of the Abrahamic Reunion shortly thereafter.

Ghassan Manasra

Abrahamic Reunion International Director

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, International Director of the Abrahamic Reunion, oversees programming in the Holy Land and Internationally since 2015. He was one of the Abrahamic Reunion’s Co-Coordinators in the Holy Land from 2014-2015, before moving to the US with his family, and has been an active contributing Peacemaker with the AR for more than a decade. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land, and son of Sheikh Abdel Salaam Manasra – head of the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land. He is the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and is Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth. Ghassan is an expert and lectures in Islam, Islamic history, Sufism, and contemporary Muslim issues in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org