Edwin Black Moderates the Iran Panel at the 2026 JNS Summit

Panel Members

Edwin Black is a human rights author, investigative journalist, and host of The Edwin Black Show.

Emily Schrader is an American-Israeli journalist, human-rights activist and the founder of the  Iran-Israel Alliance NGO. She is an anchor at ILTV News, and the host of Axis of Truth on JNS-TV. Emily also is a co-founder of the Cyrus Strategic Fund, she sits on the executive board of the Institute for Voices of Liberty, a think tank focused on European and American Iran policy, and has advised lawmakers across North America and Europe on Iran policy. In 2025, she released her first book, 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go To College, and has lectured all over the world on the topic of rising antisemitism. Emily is the winner of the 2023 Nefesh b’Nefesh Bonei Zion award for outstanding immigrants to Israel, and in 2025, she was given the Women of Iron award by Chochmat Nashim for her dedication to women’s rights.
X Handle: @emilykschrader

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is the head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). He was formerly the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy. In his long career at the IDF, he served as assistant defense attaché for intelligence at the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., chief intelligence officer of the IDF Central Command and head of the analysis and production division of the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence. He had a significant role in determining Israel’s coping methods with terror as well as regional developments, and sharing such analysis with the U.S. and other foreign entities. Kuperwasser authored a wide variety of publications on the Middle East, terrorism and intelligence and he is an opinion contributor to various Israeli and international papers and other media outlets. In June 2023, he wrote a policy paper calling on Israel to disarm Hamas.