Itay Gil

Itay Gil spent his compulsory military service in Israel's paratrooper reconnaissance company, serving in the 1982 Lebanon War. He then joined the elite counterterrorist unit Yamam and took part in hundreds of hostage-rescue and interdiction missions. He later became Yamam's chief close-quarter combat instructor. Gil continues to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reserves as senior combat instructor for the undercover counterterrorism unit 217 (Sayeret Duvdevan). In 2002, he formed a special security team for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The founder and chief executive officer of Protect, a Jerusalem-based security training firm, his methods for dealing with suicide bombers have been documented on CNN, Fox and Israeli media

Dan Baron is a Boston-based writer specializing in security issues. Previous experiences include "script doctoring" in Hollywood and researching doomsday cults and the police weapons industry in the United States.