Amir is a historian at the Moses Mendelssohn Center at Potsdam University. He's also chair of the board of the New Israel Fund in Germany. Born in Cologne, he completed high school in Toronto, studied in Brussels and Jerusalem and did his PhD in Berlin.

Maja Sojref has been the Executive Director of the New Israel Fund (NIF) Deutschland e.V. since 2023. A Berlin native, she completed her MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford in 2016 and has since worked at the intersection of civil society, politics and business. From 2017 to 2019, Maja Sojref worked as a project manager for Israeli-Palestinian youth exchange at the Willy Brandt Centre in Jerusalem. Back in Berlin, she specialised in strategic communication and led the digital COVID vaccination campaign of the German Federal Ministry of Health in 2022. Since joining NIF, Maja Sojref has, among other things, established the Netzwerk Israel (eng. Israel Civil Society Solidarity Network), which supports the work of AMCHA in Israel. She has also published op-eds and interviews in support of a democratic and peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians.