Councilors, Assemble: Voice of the People launches 150-member council of Jews

The inaugural council was inspired by the need for collective action to drive solutions to key challenges facing the Jewish people.

President Isaac Herzog announces global consultation with Jewish world, 2023 ( photo credit: Courtesy - Office of the President)

Voice of the People, an initiative set up to tackle challenges facing the Jewish people, has announced the formation of its inaugural 150-member global Jewish council. Spearheaded by President Isaaz Herzog, the cohort will serve a two-year term to address some of the most pressing issues facing Jews in Israel and around the world.

The members will be made up of 50 people from Israel, 50 from North America, and 50 from other regions across the world, each selected from a list of 1,000 applicants using a custom-built algorithm evaluating factors such as age, gender, geographic location, and religious affiliation. It aimed to reflect a diversity of backgrounds and expertise with a passion for creating meaningful change and achieved its goal of having more than 75% of the council under the age of 50 - making it a young, innovative, and creative group of future Jewish leaders.

“The selected council members represent not only an extraordinary range of skills and strengths but also a wealth of diversity, of complementary differences that I am confident will make the 'Kol Ha'am' Council much greater than the sum of its parts,” said President Isaac Herzog. “The new reality that we face since 7 October 2023, leaves no doubt - we are obligated to mobilize our best collective resources to arrive at practical and genuine solutions to the needs and challenges of the Jewish people around the world.”