Debra Pell

Debra Pell is a graduate of Georgetown University and Boston College Law School. A Bay Area native, Debra made aliyah in 1996 and is President of ArbaOne, an early stage investment company in Israel. Before making her home in Israel, Debra was a labor litigator in a large San Francisco law firm and VP of Pell Development Company. Active for many years in the San Francisco Jewish community, she served on the boards of the Jewish Community Federation and the Jewish Community Relations Council. Nationally, she was a founding board member of the Israel Policy Forum and Women’s Chair of the Young Leadership Cabinet of the JFNA. Currently, Debra is the Development Co-Chair of the New Israel Fund and the Board Chair of Kolot, a center of Jewish learning for Israeli influentials. She co-founded Crossroads a campaign to build new political infrastructure for the center-left in Israel and sits on the Executive Committee of  the Liberal Democratic Action Network. Her philanthropy in Israel is focused on strengthening democracy and ending the occupation. Debra lives in Moshav Beit Zayit with her daughters Beronica and Gavrielle.