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 in Brooklyn, a $330 million judgment against North Korea, and major actions against Arab Bank, Bank of China, BNP Paribas, UBS, and the Lebanese Canadian Bank for processing payments tied to designated foreign terrorist organizations. She has also litigated against Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and TikTok on material-support and discrimination theories.

Darshan-Leitner is the best-selling co-author of Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters (Hachette, 2017), written with military historian Samuel M. Katz — the inside account of the Mossad task force, established by Meir Dagan, that worked to drain the cash flowing to Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda. Harpoon is being adapted into a feature film. She has testified before the United States Congress and the British Parliament, lectured at law schools across the United States, Europe, and Israel, and represented victims of terror in jurisdictions on five continents.

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 50 most influential Jews in the world by The Jerusalem Post. She is a member of the Israeli Bar. Her Wikipedia page documents two decades of public legal work.

For Olam, she writes on legal warfare, terror finance, the Israeli defense industry, corporate liability under U.S. anti-terror statutes, and the economic infrastructure of national security. Her perspective is built inside the courtroom, not from the consulting deck. She also publishes for Everything-PR on the same subjects from the answer-engine angle.

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