Moshe Ronen

Moshe Ronen is a Toronto-based lawyer, international business advisor and prominent community leader. Mr. Ronen is Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress. He heads the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affair’s Development Committee and the its Educational Missions to Israel program. By age 20, Moshe was a well-known human rights student activist, and later became the youngest president the Canadian Jewish Congress ever elected. He is also immediate past Chairman of the former Canada Israel Committee.

Mr. Ronen is a charismatic public speaker, noted debater and media commentator on Middle East issues and public affairs. In 1996 Moshe was recognized by the Jewish National Fund with its prestigious Jerusalem of Gold Award for his outstanding communal service and two years later, by the Government of Ontario with a Volunteer Service Award, presented to that province’s most outstanding community leaders. Mr. Ronen is a member of the Board of Directors of several major charities including the North York General Hospital.

Mr. Ronen is a director of First Capital Realty Corporation, a growth-oriented publicly traded Canadian real estate developer and holding company with a growing shopping centre portfolio as well as a member of the Advisory Board of Skylink Aviation Group of Companies Inc., which specializes in emergency relief operations for the United Nations and many governments.

Mr. Ronen is married to Dara, and the couple has two children, Sari and Shye.