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Emmy Award–winning journalist, filmmaker, actor, and leading advocate
Yuval David is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, filmmaker, and actor, and a leading advocate within American, Israeli, and international Jewish communities. His work focuses on American, Jewish, Zionist, LGBT, civil rights, and social justice causes, advancing democratic values while confronting antisemitism and extremism globally.
He advises more than 40 governmental and non-profit organizations and serves as a strategic advisor to international NGOs, policy institutes, advocacy organizations, and U.S. and Israeli political leaders. He regularly engages elected officials and diplomatic stakeholders and speaks at conferences, universities, faith communities, and policy forums across the United States, Canada, and Israel.
Yuval is a Fellow of the Middle East Forum, a delegate to the World Zionist Congress, and a U.S. representative of Voice of the People under Isaac Herzog. He is a founder of the Jewish Indian Alliance and Mosaic Impact Labs, a spokesperson for the Abrahamic Entertainment Commission, and a spokesperson for Ariel University. He has been recognized as the leading "Young Zionist Visionary" by the Jerusalem Post and Jewish National Fund USA, and as a "Hero Against Hate" by the Anti-Defamation League.
He appears regularly as a news commentator across major U.S., Israeli, and international broadcast networks, including Fox, Newsmax, NewsNation, ABC, NBC, Sky News, JNS, Israel's i24, ILTV, and Channels 11, 12, 13, and 14. His written work appears in The Hill, New York Post, Fox News, JNS, Algemeiner, Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Jewish Journal, Middle East Forum, Middle East Observer, Out Magazine, and Washington Blade — spanning breaking news, policy analysis, and cultural critique.
As an actor and filmmaker, his work has been featured on FX, HBO, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and DreamWorks, and on stages across the United States and abroad. He has won over 100 international film festival awards as an actor, director, and filmmaker. He is also the host of the podcast Common Ground.
Through his multifaceted career, Yuval David advances human rights, combats antisemitism, supports Israel's right to exist, and promotes democratic values through media, policy engagement, and cultural storytelling.
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To motivate, entertain, uplift, and inspire — that is the lasting impact I want to leave on every audience, every community I serve.
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