Join Malka Productions for a never-before-seen panel collaboration featuring four of the world’s leading Jewish advocates and debaters—Shabbos Kestenbaum, Abraham Hamra, Debra Lea, and Talia Yosef. Each is an established force across social media, streaming, and legacy media—actively shaping conversations and influencing audiences on a global scale.

Our expert panelists will present infallible debate tactics, provide insight into navigating Jewish and Israel activism across media platforms, and equip attendees with actionable and practical tools to strengthen their advocacy for Israel and the Jewish people.

About our speakers:

Debra Lea: (@thedebralea) Leading media personality, political commentator, and humanitarian with 177,000 followers whose voice defines moral clarity and courage. Inducted into the Jewish Hall of Fame as one of its youngest-ever honorees. Debra has emerged as one of the most influential young pro-Israel voices in America serving as part of President Trump’s Jewish coalition of voices, interviewed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and debated the most prominent antisemitic voices on major platforms including Piers Morgan. From the White House to Fox News, Debra has shaped national conversations, mobilized young voters, and influenced major elections, reaching hundreds of millions every month across television and digital platforms.

Talia Yoseph: (@itstalia___) Israeli Jewish content creator, speaker, and advocate reaching over 300,000 followers across social media. Known for her bold and unapologetic voice debating antisemites through online streaming, she focuses on combating misinformation about Israel, confronting antisemitism, and strengthening Jewish identity around the world. Talia has debated with college students at LSE, King’s College London, and Princeton. Today, she speaks internationally and creates digital content that reflects a new generation of advocacy—direct, informed, and unafraid to challenge the conversation.

Shabbos Kestenbaum: (@shabboskest) American-Jewish political commentator with 120,000 followers at PragerU, and the former lead plaintiff in a landmark civil rights lawsuit against Harvard University. Honored by the Israeli Knesset for his activism against antisemitism, and named to the “25 Visionaries” list by the Jerusalem Post, he is a regular contributor on national media, has testified multiple times in front of the United States Congress, White House, and Israeli Knesset, and lectures internationally on religious freedom, Gen Z, and American politics. Shabbos regularly participates in televized debates such as World War Debates, Piers Morgan, Al Arabiya English, and more to debunk antisemitic tropes, and anti-zionist conspiracy.

Abraham Hamra: (@abrahamhamra) Syrian-Jewish attorney and activist with 137,000 followers who uses his unique perspective as a Damascus-born refugee to advocate for Israel and combat Jew hatred and antizionism. Through viral content in both English and Arabic, he challenges the white colonizer libel by highlighting the purging of Jews from Arab countries. Known for his unapologetic style, Hamra recently filed a libel lawsuit against Al Jazeera and launched "BEIT DEBATE" to foster internal Jewish unity and resilience.

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