About Us

Hannah Weisfeld is the Executive Director and a founder of Yachad. She regularly briefs senior politicians, MPs and decision makers on issues related to the Israel-Palestine conflict, as well as providing background information to the media. She has appeared on Radio and TV including BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, BBC News and Al Jazeera, and has written extensively and been quoted in international broadsheets including The Guardian, The Washington Post and Ha’aretz.  She speaks regularly in public on issues related to the conflict including in the British parliament, UK universities and Jewish community settings in the UK. She has spent significant time in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Hannah has a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex. She is a trustee of a number of charities including Masambiro UK, which works to provide educational opportunities for young people in an area of Malawi where Hannah has spent time living and working, and co-chair of trustees for Habonim Dror UK, the Jewish youth organisation she was heavily involved in during her teens and early twenties. She lives in London with her husband and two daughters.

Prior to joining Yachad in 2021, Danielle worked as the Jewish Leadership Council’s Scotland Manager. She has worked on a number of interfaith and antiracism initiatives with a focus on Muslim-Jewish alliances. She has also worked closely with the Israeli community in Scotland, and founded the Scottish Israeli Cultural Association – a non-political, non-religious initiative for Israelis living in Scotland.

Before working with the Jewish community, Danielle spent several years working in Financial Services, in a variety of fields including communications and employee engagement.

She has a degree in International Relations and Spanish from the University of St. Andrews. Danielle is Scottish-Israeli and speaks English, Hebrew and Spanish.

Before joining Yachad in 2023, Jon worked for a number of Jewish organisations, including Limmud, Finchley Reform Synagogue, West London Synagogue and Clore Shalom Primary School. His work has encompassed fundraising, charity management, informal education and events. Jon’s connection to Israel began in his early teens and twenties, when he was heavily involved with RSY-Netzer, the Jewish youth organisation. He is inspired by the power of community work – bringing people together to find common ground, empowering people to work together for positive change.

Jon has a degree in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, where his final year of studies examined the history of the ideas around the State of Israel’s birth.

As Director of Community Engagement, Elinor works with and within Jewish communities and communal organisations to promote a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Before joining Yachad in 2024, Elinor worked for seven years supporting human rights monitoring in the West Bank. Previous roles include advocacy against violence against children and for street-connected children's rights. Her work has focussed on building networks and partnerships and supporting individuals and organizations to campaign for change.

She is an active member of a progressive synagogue and was part of organizing the Open Talmud Project, a cross-movement Jewish text study programme. She holds a master's degree in children's rights and an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

Dalia recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a 1st Class degree in Classics (MA Hons). She has been actively involved in the Jewish community from an early age, including over a decade in the youth movement Noam. She has led a wide range of programmes for children and young people in both Jewish and non-Jewish spaces. Dalia is also passionate about social justice issues outside of the Jewish community, having volunteered with grassroots organisations in northern Greece that support asylum seekers and refugees from all over the Middle East.

Magen Inon is a London-based father of three from Israel who is an educator and holds a PhD in philosophy of education. He has worked in various domains to cultivate liberal values and leadership skills, including with students at top universities, high-ranking military officers, promising young adults and inmates. Since the murder of his parents in the Hamas attack on Israel on the 7th October 2023, Magen Inon has become a leading voice for peace between Israelis and Palestinians within international media, local communities and the political elite.

Michal comes from a diverse career path. During COVID, she transitioned into UX research, working with non-profits and social innovations, evaluating mental health products and services using user insights. She worked in tech, focusing on user behaviour with privacy and security features for Android products at Google. Previously, Michal spent many years as a print designer for fashion brands. She then co-managed a family-run business, coordinating video production and has recently helped an art workshop company with producing and facilitating workshops for team building and for the wider community.

Michal is Israeli (Yemenite)-British. She grew up in Israel in a religious household.

Harry Badwan is a British-Palestinian who has been actively involved in the Israel/Palestine peace movement for a number of years. His focus has been on diplomatic, non-violent solutions to the conflict, emphasizing the need for interfaith collaboration and challenging divisive narratives about who can collaborate in order to achieve peace. It was these interests that first inspired him to join Yachad. With a multidisciplinary career spanning the charity and broadcasting sectors, Harry hopes to express his faith in liberal democratic values through both words and actions. He holds a 1:1 degree in English Literature from Queen Mary University.