Zionism is the promise of the prophets. We have been privileged to live in a generation where we are part of the redemption. This is our land and our forefathers' land. We were exiled. And now we're coming back. - Avichai Amusi is a volunteer medic with Zaka, Israel's dominant disaster victim identification and rescue unit NGO. He also runs a volunteer based organization which provides hundreds of weekly meals to needy families and individuals.

"I'm definitely a Zionist. I think the future and the history of the Jewish people is here. Just like the Arab world needs to accept that Israel is here to stay, Israel needs to own our destiny. We can’t live in conflict forever. We need to develop a long term solution that will allow us to live in peace." - Rachel Broyde is director of development at the Anti-Defamation League, and a Founding Member of the UAE-Israel Business Council and the Gulf-Israel Women’s Forum.

"What Zionism has meant for me, personally, is self empowerment, dignity, ​courage, and the ability to reach out to others. Because when you're in a place ​of defensiveness and fear, which is how I grew up in a Holocaust survivor ​family, it's very hard to be generous. It's very hard to engage with the ​other. I became an interfaith activist with Muslims and with Christians ​when I became an Israeli. And for me, that's the most positive expression ​of Zionism. For centuries, Jews lived under Islam, under Christianity, and it's only when ​I came here that I realized the whole dynamic of the Jewish people's ​relationship to the rest of the world has fundamentally changed, and that ​gave me the courage and the incentive to reach out to other religions and ​other peoples." - Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is co-director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI). His latest book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, is a New York Times bestseller.