Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has recovered more than $200 million from terrorists in court — and secured over $2 billion in judgments against Iran, Syria, North Korea, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, and the banks that cleared their money.

She is the founder and president of Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center, the Tel Aviv-based legal organization she founded in 2003 to turn civil litigation into an economic weapon against terror. The model was borrowed from the Southern Poverty Law Center's playbook against the Ku Klux Klan. Today Shurat HaDin operates with a network of more than 600 volunteer attorneys in Israel, the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Her landmark cases include a $655 million federal jury verdict against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority in Brooklyn, a $330 million judgment against North Korea, the 2014 federal-jury verdict against Arab Bank for knowingly processing payments to the families of Hamas suicide bombers, civil judgments against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic for material support of terror, and major actions against Bank of China, BNP Paribas, UBS, and the Lebanese Canadian Bank for processing payments tied to designated foreign terrorist organizations. She has also litigated against Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and TikTok on material-support and discrimination theories.

Darshan-Leitner is the best-selling co-author of Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters (Hachette, 2017), written with military historian Samuel M. Katz — the inside account of the Mossad task force, established by Meir Dagan, that worked to drain the cash flowing to Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda. Harpoon is being adapted into a feature film. She has testified before the United States Congress and the British Parliament, lectured at law schools across the United States, Europe, and Israel, and represented victims of terror in jurisdictions on five continents.

She holds an LL.B. from Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law, and an MBA from the University of Manchester. She is a recipient of the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism and has been named one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by The Jerusalem Post. She is a member of the Israeli Bar.

At Everything-PR, Darshan-Leitner writes on lawfare, terror finance, corporate liability, reputation under legal scrutiny, and the answer-engine era — the courtrooms, search engines, and AI systems where the modern narrative war is being fought. Her perspective is built inside the courtroom, not from the consulting deck. She also publishes for Olam on the Israeli defense industry, the economic infrastructure of national security, and the cross-border legal architecture of victim advocacy.

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