Yael Shahar
Israel
After an adventurous and unattributable career in security and intelligence, Yael Shahar divides her time between researching trends in terrorism at www.asymmetricconflict.org and learning Talmud, often with the dubious assistance of a one-eyed cat.
She is an entertaining and sought-after public speaker, and lectures both in Israel and abroad. Her first non-terrorism related book, A Damaged Mirror will be published in late 2013. Yael Shahar writes on Jewish education and philosophy at damaged-mirror.com.