The Team

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Moshe Bernstein

Oded Rahav

FOUNDER AND CEO

Entrepreneur, environmental activist, long-distance world-record swimmer. Oded fell in love with the Dead Sea after initiating the historical first swimming across it in 2016 with a group of swimmers from around the world. A Guinness record. In 2022 Oded established the Dead Sea Guardians organization and has dedicated his life to saving the Dead Sea.

Dr. Eyal Hulata

CO-CHAIRS

Former National Security Advisor and Head of Israel’s National Security Council from 2021-2023. He also served in the Israeli intelligence establishment, of which a decade was spent in senior executive roles. He is currently a senior international fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Zur Genosar

CO-CHAIRS

Acting CEO of the “Hoffman Kofman” Foundation and personally oversees every leadership program initiated by the Foundation. He has extensive experience and proven results in Management, Business Development, M&A and Sales and is committed to bringing together a strong commercial business approach together with Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence.

Board of trustees

Ron Milo

Professor of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is Weizmann Dean of Education, the chairperson of the Israel society of ecology and environmental sciences and the director of the Institute for environmental sustainability at Weizmann.

Miki Haimovich

Former news anchor, journalist and politician. Chair of the board for “Heschel Center for Sustainability”.

Gur Shreibman

Brigadier General reserves and is currently an international fellow at the National Defense University in DC.

Amir Alroy

Co-founder of Welltech Ventures. Member of the Global Wellness Summit advisory board.

Ben Enosh

Co-Founder & Chairman at Antidote Health, a US AI based, virtual HMO.

Leehee Goldenberg

Environmental lawyer and policy professional with over a decade of experience in climate change, sustainability and clean energy.

Shimon (Samuel Ian) Rosen

Founder of multiple companies and an investor specializing in water-tech.

Barbara Krystal, PhD

Barbara Krystal is a Marine Biologist, Author, and Teacher of Blue Humanities. She is also the curator for the Art of Water online exhibition. Barbara is an intricate member of the Guardians, providing ideas for programming, building connections and other much-needed thought processes and resources.

Nathan Japhet

Nathan manages our social media and communications in English.
He works as a Business Development Manager in IQVIA Israel and was previously a business development analyst at Agrematch. With his love and desire to preserve Israeli nature and specifically the Dead Sea, Nathan works relentlessly to save it for future generations to come, including his own children.

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