Israeli president’s grand experiment: 150 Jews, one ‘Voice of the People’

What’s the future of Jewish life anywhere around the globe? How do we develop and enhance it? How do we deal with the explosion of antisemitism? Questions of this size and complexity are often handled by think tanks or advisers but this week more than 150 individuals from around the globe arrived in Haifa to begin the task of answering them.

Handpicked by algorithm, the self-identified Jews – a requirement for participation – came from 75 cities, in North and South America, South Africa, Australia and across Europe as well as from all parts of Israel to attend, and to become, the Voice of the People, an initiative of Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president.