(Feb. 26, 2025 / JNS) Dozens of people gathered at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, an Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, on Tuesday night to hear from three pro-Israel, Arab activists in an event billed as “voices of change.”

The panel consisted of Fatema Al Harbi, Gulf affairs director of the nonprofit Sharaka; Lebanese-Israeli, Christian activist Jonathan Elkhoury, who fled Lebanon at 9-years-old with his family; and U.S.-based Dalia Ziada, a writer and activist who fled Cairo after Oct. 7, 2023 due to her pro-Israel advocacy.

The Israeli-American Council cosponsored the event with Sharaka and the synagogue.