David Harris is one of the Jewish community’s leading global advocates. For the last 23 years, he has served as Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, traveling the globe to meet with world leaders to combat anti-Semitism, monitor the condition of Jewish communities and promote intergroup and interreligious understanding. He has worked tirelessly at the highest levels to fight anti-Semitism, in many cases risking his own safety. In the course of his work on behalf of Soviet Jewry, he was twice detained by Soviet authorities and once expelled from the country. Harris regularly meets with global leaders to raise public awareness regarding the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and speaks with audiences around the world to assure the Holocaust is not forgotten. He led the worldwide effort to create a memorial at the site of Belzac, a Nazi death camp in Poland, and played an important role in establishing in Greece a memorial to the Jews of Thessaloniki.  Furthermore, he has worked tirelessly to promote freedom, human dignity and democratic values for all people. Harris is being honored for the great courage he has shown, like that of Metropolitan Chrysostomos, to combat anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance.