Jonathan Jacoby, the director of the Nexus Task Force, is an organizational entrepreneur working on issues related to Israel, American Jewish life and American politics. He was the founding director of New Israel Fund and of Israel Policy Forum. Jonathan has pioneered new models for public-private partnerships in the field of rare disease research as a co-founder of SOAR (Support Of Accelerated Research), which has built a pipeline of potential therapeutics for a rare neurodegenerative disease.
