Dan Feferman

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Middle East 24

Dan Feferman is the co-founder and CEO of Middle East 24 (ME24), a groundbreaking media platform working to transform international coverage of the Middle East by elevating credible, locally rooted voices and perspectives absent from the global conversation. A major in the IDF reserves, Dan served for nearly a decade as a foreign-policy and national-security adviser to the General Staff, as special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff, and as a commander in an elite intelligence unit. He is also a former fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, where he published influential research on Jewish identity, Israel-Diaspora relations and the challenges facing the Jewish people. As co-chair and former executive director of Sharaka, Dan has helped translate the Abraham Accords into genuine people-to-people relationships among Israelis and emerging Arab and Muslim leaders across the region. He is originally from Indiana.