On April 9th 2024, Anthony Scaramucci, the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and Founder and Chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio, was invited to Shabtai where he delivered a talk and had an engaging conversation with Yale students.

In Oct 2018, Shabtai hosted Israeli Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer at Yale University for a variety of lectures and private talks at Shabtai. As a final discussion on this historic trip Justice Melcer was interviewed by attorney Steve Susman on the unique contributions of Israeli jurisprudence to International and Human Rights Law.

On Oct 30th 2014 Shabtai hosted professor and UN Investigator William Schabas for a discussion at Shabtai/Yale.

On April 10th 2024, Shabtai hosted Human Rights Activist Bassem Eid at Shabtai Yale.

On November 29, 2023, Shabtai hosted Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt. During the talk, he discusses the history and implication of antisemitism in Shakespeare's masterful work "The Merchant of Venice."

In January 2023, Walter Reich and James Kirchick were invited to speak at Shabtai D.C. to discuss Holocaust memory and education.

In January 2024, Israeli MK Simcha Rothman was invited to Shabtai to discuss Israel post October 7th.