About Us
Governing Bodies
Beit Hatfutsot is a public, not-for-profit organization with private and governmental involvement. Beit Hatfutsot has four shareholders: The State of Israel; The Jewish Agency for Israel/World Zionist Organization; Tel Aviv University; The World Jewish Congress. According to the 2005 Beit Hatfutsot Law, Beit Hatfutsot has the status of National Center for Jewish Communities in Israel and around the world. The directing institutions of Beit Hatfutsot are: The General Assembly – meeting of shareholders of the organization; International Board of Governors – the senior representative and policy formulating body; and the Board of Directors – the management body.
The Board of Governors held its fourth annual meeting at the museum on June 2009. read more
International Board of Governors
Mr. Leonid Nevzlin
Chair
Chair, NADAV Foundation
Deacon, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Jewish History, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
East-West
The Jewish Agency
Ohio Savings Bank
Net2Phone
"Delta"
World Chairman, "Keren Hayesod"
Chairman, Board of Directors, Bank Hamizrachi Hameuchad Ltd.
The Interdisciplinary Center
Chairman, "Yad Vashem" - the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Chairman, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, the Shalem Center
President, the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yizrael
Chairperson, the Jewish Agency Board of Goversons
The Atlantic, National Correspondent
Chairman, Zeevi Group
Board of Directors
Mr. Jacob Perry
Chair
Chair, Mizrachi Tfachot Bank
Representative of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization
World Chairman, Keren Hayesod - UIA
Representative of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization
Chief Financial Officer, the Jewish Agency
Tel Aviv University Representative
Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University Representative
Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Representative of the State
General Director, the Israel Children's Museum, Holon
Representative of the Israeli Public
CEO of APCO Israel
Representative of the Israeli Public
Chairman, Israeli Presidential Conference Steering Committee
Representative of the Jewish Communities Public
Representative of the Jewish Communities Public
Representative of World Jewish Congress
Representative of World Jewish Congress
Public representative, Israel
Director General, NADAV Foundation Director General, Israeli Center for Better Childhood (ICBC); Director General, Nevzlin Family Fund
Representative of the Israeli Public