Micah Lakin Avni

Micah Lakin Avni (born June 13, 1969) is an Israeli businessman, attorney and a human rights and anti-terrorism activist.

His father, Richard Lakin, was a civil rights advocate and school principal in Glastonbury, Connecticut before the family moved to Israel.

Martin Luther King Jr.[6][8] After moving to Israel, Lakin taught English to mixed classes of Arabs and Jews.

[7] Avni studied at the American School in Kfar Shmaryahu and later served in the IDF as a combat soldier and commander in the Golani Brigade.

In December 2015, the company won a bid of ILS 450 million to the Ministry of Economy for the establishment and management of an investment fund for long-term growth of medium-sized businesses.

[14] In each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2018 Avni was elected to the list of The Marker's 100 Most Influential People in Israel following his involvement in opening the credit market to free competition.

[7] After his father's death, Avni published an opinion piece in The New York Times in November 2015[17] that raised public debate on the issue of social media incitement.

[21] Avni said: “extreme terrorist organizations use social networks to incite and encourage young people around the world to join them”, calling the phenomenon, “open source jihad.” He said social media networks incited Baha ‘Alian, his father’s murderer, who was later described as a shahid on Facebook.

[26] At 2017 Avni was involved in efforts to expose the phenomenon of videos on YouTube that encourage terrorism [27] and are funded by advertisements of international corporations.

[28] In March 2018 Avni appeared again in front of the UN Human Rights Council where he said: “The Palestinian Authority actually has a pay-to-play law.