Sharon Tzur is Founder and Executive Director of Media Watch International (MWI) and the moving force behind Caravan for Democracy.

With Sharon Tzur at the helm, Media Watch International – an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to presenting a positive image of Israel and promoting accurate and impartial media coverage of the Middle East conflict – oversaw the runaway success of Honestreporting.com, until it reached over 50,000 activists and became an independent organization.

In 2008, in the wake of the British academic boycott of Israel, Sharon Tzur created, the Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel, an academic fellowship which brings college faculty members on an educational two week program to Israel. The institute brings together Israeli faculty with their internationally renowned counterparts. The Faculty Fellowship facilitated the exchange of thoughts and research, and created a better understanding of cultures and religions to bring back to the fellows’ respective campuses.

Caravan for Democracy, a Media Watch International initiative, was launched in March 2002 in partnership with the Jewish National Fund to promote Israel’s honest and accurate message on campuses. To date, Caravan for Democracy has brought high profile Israeli speakers to hundreds of American universities.

Not only has Sharon Tzur become the icon for national media outlets like Fox News and CNN, who seek her counsel in securing articulate Israeli voices – she herself has appeared on these networks and has been featured in articles in the US and Israel. She travels as a speaker from Montreal to Miami. Jewsweek rated Sharon Tzur among the 50 most influential Jews in America.

The Canadian-born, Israeli-raised Sharon Tzur completed her military service in the Israeli Air Force. Following a stint as assistant to MK and former Tel Aviv Mayor Roni Milo, Tzur became the Director of Betar USA, a Zionist Youth Movement.