Ra'ed Al-Mickawi is the Director of BUSTAN. He was born and raised in the government planned township of Tel Sheva in the Negev. Ra'ed's background is in filmmaking and journalism, which he studied in the Television Journalism department of Sapir Academic College in the Negev. In 2006, Ra'ed returned to Sapir Academic College to study cinema, and in 2007 he established the revolutionary internet-based television stat..

Yehonatan is responsible for fund-raising and organizational development. Yehonatan was born in Jerusalem, and left to represent Israel in the United World College movement in India when he was 15. It was there that he was first exposed to the world of non-profits. He later continued to the Netherlands, where he received his B.A in Social Sciences, majoring in Sociology and Anthropology and researching the social ide..

Alon is an environmental scientist from the Weizmann Institute of Science and is currently working as Deputy director of Bustan. As a long time volunteer he has initiated a tree planting project (Shatla) within Bedoiun communities in the Negev under the framework of Bustan. He is also involved in research of sustainability in the Weizmann Institute of Science...