Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has recovered more than $200 million from terrorists in court — and secured over $2 billion in judgments against Iran, Syria, North Korea, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, and the banks that cleared their money.

She is the founder and president of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, the Tel Aviv-based legal organization she founded in 2003 to turn civil litigation into an economic weapon against terror. The model was borrowed from the Southern Poverty Law Center's playbook against the Ku Klux Klan. Today Shurat HaDin operates with a network of more than 600 volunteer attorneys in Israel, the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Her landmark cases include a $655 million federal jury verdict against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority and a $330 million judgment against North Korea, alongside actions against Arab Bank, Bank of China, BNP Paribas, and the financial institutions that processed terror funds.

Darshan-Leitner is the best-selling co-author of Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters, written with Samuel M. Katz and soon a feature film. She holds a law degree from Bar-Ilan University and an MBA from the University of Manchester. She is a recipient of the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism and has been named one of the fifty most influential Jews in the world by The Jerusalem Post.

For Olam, she writes on legal warfare, terror finance, Israeli defense industry, and the economic infrastructure of national security.