Executive Board
Ms. Adina Vogel-Ayalon, member of the board
Adina Vogel-Ayalon is the Chief of Staff at J Street. She joined J Street in 2015 as the Deputy Israel Director at J Street and in 2020, she served as J Street’s Israel Director before taking on the role of Chief of Staff in 2021. Prior to J Street, Adina worked at the Shimon Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in the Development and External Relations Department, where she gained extensive experience in developing and initiating Israeli-Palestinian people-to-people, peacebuilding programs in a variety of sectors, including peace education, healthcare, business, and environment. Adina holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Boston University and Master’s in Conflict Resolution and Mediation from Tel Aviv University.
Ms. Tally Zingher, member of the board
Tally Zingher is the CEO and co-founder of Dawsat, and is also the Managing Director of Blue Laurel Advisors. Tally practiced corporate law (financing & M&A) in New York and Dubai, UAE. Prior to that, Tally was a law clerk to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Netherlands. Tally started her career as a technology M&A investment banker at Broadview (Jefferies) in New York. She has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, fellow at the Dubai Initiative of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard University (collaboration with the Dubai School of Government), and a Fulbright Scholar in the field of economics. Tally lectures on subjects related to economic development, emerging markets, and innovation for development at conferences in the US, Europe and the Middle East and has taught at Harvard University and Tel Aviv University.
Tally holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard College, magna cum laude, an M.P.A. in international development economics from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Tally is a fellow of the Middle East Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network.
Idan Liav, member of the board
Idan Liav is a PhD candidate in history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a doctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) in Mainz, Germany. His research focuses on the history of Zionism, Jewish history, Holocaust studies, memory studies, and conceptual history. He holds an M.A. and an M.Phil. in history from the Graduate Center, CUNY, as well as an M.A. in Conflict Research and Resolution and a B.A. in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Following his military service in the North American Desk of the International Military Cooperation Unit, Idan served as Executive Assistant to the Israeli Defense Attaché in Washington, D.C., Major General (ret.) Gadi Shamni (2010–2012). He later worked as a researcher at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) from 2014 to 2018 before beginning his PhD in New York.