Yaron Shavit, born in 1958 in Hod HaSharon, Israel, is a prominent attorney and Zionist leader. He earned an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1985 and an LLM from Bar-Ilan University in 2003, qualifying as an attorney in 1986. Over a 35-year career, he specialized in commercial law, high-tech, software, IP rights, tenders, corporations, torts, insurance, professional negligence, computer law, and copyright, serving 12 years as managing director of a mid-sized Tel Aviv law firm. He is a graduate of Israel's inaugural Supreme Court mediation course with the Israel Bar Association. Shavit maintained active IDF reserve service in the Armored Corps, advancing from officers' cadet school (ending regular service as lieutenant) to company commander, regiment commander, brigade chief of staff, and division chief of staff, attaining the rank of colonel (Aluf-Mishneh) in the Central Command. A prominent Reform Judaism activist, he chaired the Kamatz congregation in Mevaseret Zion, led the Israel Movement for Reform Judaism from 2010-2014, and volunteered extensively in Jewish community initiatives. Active in Zionist institutions since 2006 representing Arzenu, he served on the World Zionist Organization Executive, Jewish Agency Board of Governors, and World Union for Progressive Judaism leadership. Elected president of the 38th Zionist Congress in October 2020—the first online congress—he became Deputy Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive in February 2021, overseeing Jewish Peoplehood. He resides in Mevaseret Zion with wife Michal (high school principal and educator); father of Yochai, Yiftah, Yaara, and one Na'aleh/immigrant youth; grandfather to five. Email: yarons@jafi.org.