FIDF Leadership
FIDF is made up passionate professionals and lay leaders who dedicate themselves to our mission to support the young men and women of the IDF.
Executive Staff
Major Gen. (Res.) Nadav Padan
Chief Executive Officer
Karen Benson
Vice President, People and Culture
Adam Broidy
Chief Information Officer
Jeremy Chwat
Executive Vice President
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Liron Donnell
Vice President, Israel Operations
Rebecca Rafelson
Vice President, Marketing
Eli Srulowitz
Chief Financial Officer
Regional Vice Presidents
Galit Brichta
Vice President, Northeast Region
Tamir Oppenheim
Vice President, Central Region
Jenna Griffin
Vice President, Western Region
Brian Sarran
Vice President, Southeast Region
Jennifer Scher
Vice President, MidAtlantic Region
Board of Directors
Harvey Axelrod
Gary Balter
Sammy Bar-Or
Adam Bell
Ronny Ben-Josef*
Max Blankfeld
Aaron Brown
Doug Bunim
Robert Burman
Bobby Cohen
Todd Copeland
Heather Dermont
Fred Distenfeld – Chairman
Dr. Nily Falic – Chairperson Emeritus*
Steve Feiger
Clive Fields
Bill Fox
Al Frank
Mitch Gold
Harry Gross*
Bernie Groveman
David Hager
Joseph Hanono
Eric Haron
Larry J. Hochberg – Chairperson Emeritus
Robert Jakobi
Alan Katz
Shmuel Katz
Alice Klein
Netta Korin*
Stephen Kraus
Richard Kwal
Tim Levart – Treasurer*
Nathan Lewinger
Mark Lutz
Brian Mermelshtein
Sharon Mishkin
Sam Moshe*
Wendy Moskowitz – President*
Jorde Nathan
Spencer Partrich
Marc Perlman
Robert Polak
Amitai Raziel
Susan Reichenthal
Steven Wayne Rubin, Esq.
Hyla Ruby
Ari Ryan
Haim Saban
Monica Sasson
Ron Sedley*
Rob Selati
Morrie Silverman
Garry Sobel
Lloyd Sokoloff
Arthur Stark – Chairperson Emeritus
Peter Weintraub – Chairperson
Emeritus*
Liz Winter
Shahram Yaghoubzadeh
Ofer Yardeni
Arie Zweig
* Executive Committee Member