Carlton D. Pearson
Carlton Pearson is a native of San Diego California, where he spent the first 18 years of his life with his parents and five siblings. He was raised in a traditional fundamentalist Christian home, a fourth generation Pentecostal preacher.
After studying at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he majored in Biblical Literature/English Bible and minored in Theology/Historical Studies, he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA).
In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew from a traveling evangelistic team in ‘77, to a multi-faceted global ministry, which included a local church of over 5,000, a home for unwed mothers, one for ex-offenders returning to society, a full service licensed Counseling Center, prison and nursing home outreaches, a national Purity With Purpose Discipleship Program for men and women, with graduates nationally and internationally, a 645 acre horse Ranch for troubled Youth and Teens. His annual Azusa conference, held on the Campus of the Oral Roberts University, (his Alma Mater) saw attendance swell as high as some 50,000 during the week-long event. The popular conference helped give exposure to numerous now well-known and highly successful ministers and ministries who now enjoy an international platform and worldwide recognition.
A Stellar award winning vocalist, Pearson has sold into the millions of CDs and videos with his recording contracts with Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records, and Tommy Boy and has also been nominated for the Christian recording industry Dove Award.
Ali Yahya
Yahya was born in 1947 and raised in Nazareth. He completed his BA degree in history and Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1970. Yahya is married and has five children.
Prior to becoming an ambassador, Yahya was the coordinator of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Special Projects Division for the Middle East and the Peace Process. In 1995, Yahya became a member of the Board of Directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), where he was in charge of Arabic and radio programs. That year he also joined the Lapid Movement for Learning the Lessons of the Holocaust. Later in 1995 he was appointed the Israeli ambassador to Finland. He served until 1999. In 1999, he served as Coordinator and Advisor for Special Projects (P.T.P.), at the Department for the Middle East Peace Process and was the direct responsible for the Aqaba Eilat peace talks.
In 2006, Yahya was appointed the Israeli ambassador to Greece. Yahya was the first Israeli–Arab to light the ceremonial torch at the Israeli Independence Day celebration, and was the delegate of the Israeli – Arab Community at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1995.
Ishmael Khaldi, Advisor to the Israeli Foreign Minister. 
Ishmael Khaldi has served in the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, and in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, going on to become the country’s first high-ranking Muslim in the Israeli foreign service. In 2006, he was appointed consul in San Francisco and in 2009 he became advisor to Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman.
Mr. Khaldi has written his autobiography, A Shepherd’s Journey: The Story of Israel’s First Bedouin Diplomat. Born in a tent village in the southern Galilee to a family with long-standing ties to its Jewish neighbors, he managed through hard work and persistence to obtain a bachelor's degree in political science from Haifa University and a master's degree from Tel Aviv University. Alan Dershowitz has praised his book as “the story of a remarkable young man.”