TLW's Modern Jewscope™ (Modern Jew Historyscope) |
By T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper™ |
© Copyright by T.L. Winslow. All Rights Reserved. |
Original Pub. Date: May 21, 2016. Last Update: Feb. 20, 2024. |
Westerners are not only known as history ignoramuses, but double dumbass history ignoramuses when it comes to modern Jews and Jewish history. Since I'm the one-and-only Historyscoper (tm), let me quickly bring you up to speed before you dive into my Master Historyscope.
What tiny peculiar tribe slash race slash religion produced Moses, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, and Jerry Lewis? Don't ask me whether it's nature or nuture, but the Jews are the smartest people in the world, survivors of millennia of persecution who always managed to survive and thrive. Despite all the sick anti-Semitic agitprop about Jews conspiring to rule the world, they simply don't have the numbers like the ancient Romans, or modern Russians, Chinese, or Americans do. Instead, they are rulers of almost every intellectual discipline, princes and kings, and a huge credit to humanity. Without the Jews we would probably still be in the Dark Ages. We non-Jews probably owe them more than they owe us. A study of history will show that every nation that went against the Jews was destroyed; who's dumb enough to be next? No, Jews don't rule the world, but their intellectual superiority makes their numbers seem multiplied by 10, 50, or 100 in every intellectual walk of life, including STEM, art, literature, social sciences, economics and finance, and politics, so there's no way anybody can rule the world without cutting them in, get used to it. Only 0.2% of the world's pop., Jews have won 20% of all Nobel Prizes.
So, what exactly is a Jew? First, one has to self-identify as a Jew, meaning a public rejection of Christianity and Islam, although atheism is currently okay; either way, it's like painting a target on your forehead. Second, one has to have a Jewish mother, or undergone official conversion. A quick cheat is to be accepted as a Jewish citizen of the Jewish state of Israel (2016 pop. 8.5M), trust the authorities they know. The genetic issue of Jewish racial uniqueness, along with the issue of Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence is an intelligent safety shield chromosomal technology subject too complex to cover here. The total world Jewish pop. is estimated at 14.2M (0.2%), with 83% living in Israel and the U.S., and 98% in 18 countries. After that it gets complicated, since historically many Jews were forced to feign conversion to survive, but remained Jewish under the skin, and outside Israel they're a global mole force, nobody knows for sure, the head of every Muslim country might be a secret Jew. And on the other side of the spectrum there are the pesky group of self-proclaimed Messianic Jews who claim to have it both ways, but despite them we'll consider a true Jew somebody who rejects Jesus Christ as the Messiah and is supposedly awaiting the real one to arrive and make everything all right, I've been paying for over a year on a junk car, no one knows what's gotten into the heads of our leaders, bugs are eating people's brains, so let's let this question slide and just wing it.
Most people have a foggy notion that Jews Run Da World. In May 2016 the popular Egyptian newspaper Vetogate lists the Ten Jews Who Control the World, incl. Egyptian-born Haim Saban (1944-), Moroccan-born Patrick Drahi (1963-), Libyan-born Yitzhak Tshuva (1948-), New York City-born Shari Arison (1957-), London-born Idan Ofer (1955-), New York City-born Ronald Steven Lauder (1944-), Australian-born Keith Rupert Murdoch (1931-) (who tries to hide his Jewishness?), Boston, Mass.-born Sheldon Gary Adelson (1933-), New York City-born Irving I. Moskowitz (1928-), and Algerian-born Bernard-Henri Levy (Lévy) (1948-). Funny how they fail to mention Budapest, Hungary-born George Soros (Gyorgy Schwartz) (1930-), White Plains, N.Y.-born Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (1984-), and the even more obvious Rothschild Family. What we'd really like to know is whether the really really rich like Seattle, Wash.-born William Henry "Bill" Gates III (1955-), Omaha, Neb.-born Warren Edward Buffett (1930-), the Rockefeller Family, and the Wichita, Kan.-born Koch Brothers incl. Charles de Ganahl Koch (1935-) and David Hamilton Koch (1940-) are secret Jews, not to mention rich politicians incl. Queens, N.Y.-born Donald John Trump (1946-) and Chicago, Ill.-born Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-), whose grandmother's 2nd husband Max Rosenberg was a Russian-born Jew. Meanwhile, of 1.4K billionaires worldwide, 165 are Jews, with a total wealth of $812B in 2013, not counting the fabled secret wealth of the Rothschilds. Let's scope modern Jews more systematically and get a clearer picture. The trouble is that like gays, some refuse to come out of the closet, but we'll try to scope those who don't just look like a star but live like one. Since we're scoping modern Jews, we'll skip over most of the highlights of Jewish history back 3,000 years, which are scoped in my Jerusalem Historyscope.
Where do the Jews come into history? In who knows when the maybe-real maybe-legendary characters Abraham ("father of many") (father of the Hebrews and Ishmaelites or Arabs, dated around 2000 B.C.E.) and Moses ("son of") (first Messiah of the Hebrews, dated 1500-1200 B.C.E.) allegedly lived, and the latter allegedly left the Books of Moses (Torah) that contained Jehovah's promise to give them the land of Israel (Isis + Ra + El?), AKA the Promised Land: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the Brook of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites." (Genesis 15:18-21) "And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your temporary residence, all the land of Canaan as an eternal possession, and I will be a God to them." (Genesis 17:8) If you believe the Brooks, er, Books of Moses, around 1500-1200 B.C.E. Moses with Jehovah's indispensable help led the Hebrews ("cross over") out of captivity in Egypt after performing many mighty miracles to wow their pharaoh (nobody is sure which pharaoh), and drowned the bum to boot in the Red Sea, then after they went pagan for a spell and got Jehovah angry, got them all lost in the wilderness for 40 years and died before reaching it and crossing the Jordan River. Truth or fairy tale, the militarily capable Hebrews, led by Joshua invaded and fought their way into Canaan ("land of purple") city by city, claiming that God had promised it to them as the Promised Land, AKA Greater Israel, "from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18-21). Joshua defeated and killed king Og of the Amorites at the Battle of Edrei in modern-day Daraa, Syria, the original perfect short man. Whether the Bible stories are really true or are just national myths, the Jews did establish the right to the territory by conquering and settling it long before 1000 B.C.E. The Bible is a backdated fairy tale? Even if it is, in Jan. 2010 a pottery shard was found 18 mi. from Jerusalem dated around 1000 B.C.E. with Hebrew writing on it. That Jesus, the biggest Jewish Messiah of all was named Yeshua must mean something too, good morning Jerusalem, if you got plans you better get started early. The name Moses isn't really a name, it means "Son of", like Mac in Scottish. Moses was thus the Jews' original Son of Man, which term Jesus Christ later liked to refer to himself by, everything you hear, every single thing you say, is designed by the corporate media to keep you in their control.
The mushy sands of time don't start to clear until about 1000 B.C.E., when Israel got its first Jewish king of Israel, named Saul (Heb. "prayed for"), starting a line incl. David and Solomon, that ended with Gedaliah (Heb. "Jehovah has become great") about 581 B.C.E. after a Babylonian takeover in 586 B.C.E., followed by a Persian takeover (538 B.C.E.), and Greek takeover (333 B.C.E.), until Jewish rule was restored in 167 B.C.E. by the Maccabees (Machabees) under King Mattathias (Mattityahu) ben Johanan (d. -165), who were succeeded in 140 B.C.E. by the Hasmonean Dynasty, which acknowledged suzertainty of the Seleucids until they was conquered in 63 B.C.E. by the pagan Romans, who in 37 B.C.E. put puppet king Herod I the Great (-74 to -4) (a hated Edomite) in charge; Herod's reign coincides with the alleged birth of Greatest Jew of All Time Jesus Christ (-4 to 33), who made the Jewish religion obsolete and founded its successor Christianity, which most of the stiff-necked Jews refused to accept; too bad, the jury is still out whether he actually lived or was made-up later as a dummy corporation for a New World Order. Meanwhile in 6 C.E. Rome combined Judea, Samaria, and Idumea (Edom) into the Roman province of Judaea (Iudaea), installing a Roman procurator in 44 C.E. to rule side by side with the Herodian kings, causing Bible-thumping fundamentalists to fume and plot to raise up a Messiah to free them from foreign infidel rule, bringing doom down on themselves instead, what's my name, what's my name, I'm Gorgeous George.
In the 4th cent. B.C.E. Jews begin migrating to Rome and various Mediterranean towns, forming separate communities; by the 3rd cent. B.C.E. large numbers live in Greece, esp. Rhodes and Salonica (Thessaloniki), which becomes known as "the Mother of Israel".
About 30 B.C.E. 80-y.-o. Babylon-born Jewish sage Hillel the Eder (-110 to 10) founds the House of Hillel in Jerusalem, which rejects upstart Jesus Christ and the Gospels in favor of the Mishnah and the Talmud, and takes the mass of the Jewish people with them until the 5th cent. C.E.
In 70 C.E. the mean pagan Romans conquer Jerusalem, followed by all of Israel in the Bar Kokhba ("Son of a Star") Revolt (132-136), after which the Jewish people suffer the Jewish Diaspora (Heb. "Tefutzah" = scattered), becoming known as the Wandering Jews. To make a long story short, in 638 the Arab Muslims conquer Jerusalem, allowing Christians and Jews to live there as long as they submit to Muslim rule and domination, living in subjection and fear under an intolerant supremacist mindset that characterizes most Muslims to this day. Meanwhile Muslims living in Christendom were treated like merde, sometimes allowed to prosper, other times subjected to horrible pogroms, not that it was much better in Muslim lands, let's talk about it at our next get-together at Olive Garden; at least Jews mostly lived openly as Jews, and didn't try to masquerade as something else, although we can never be sure, it's a mystery of history.
In 1070 after conquering England from the Anglo-Saxons, Norman-born English king (1066-87) William I the Conqueror (1028-87) brings the first Jews into Britain to utlize their commercial skills; too bad, they are all expelled by Crusader king (1272-1307) Edward I Longshanks (1239-1307) in 1290, although some remain in hiding, and nearby Scotland allows theirs to remain, while Longshanks tries to crush Scottish independence. In 1657 Bible-thumping Puritan dictator (1653-8) Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) allows open Jews to return as long as they pay their way in and don't act too uppity, allowing them to worm their way up the ladder until after joining the Church of England, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) beomes PM of Britain in 1868, and again in 1874-80.
About 1190 after moving to Fez, Morocco in 1159, pretending to be Muslim for nine years, then to Alexandria and Cairo in 1165, becoming chief physician of Saladin's vizier al-Qadi al-Fadil al-Baisani and Saladin's eldest son Nur-ud-Din Ali, rising to Ra'is al Yahud (Nagid) in 1176 (1177?), and going on to talk Saladin into letting Jews settle again in Jerusalem after he conquers it in 1187, Cordoba, Spain-born Sephardic Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) AKA Rambam (Rabbeinu Mosheh Ben Maimon) writes Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh Nevukhim or Nebuchim) (Delalatul Ha'yreen), one of the great philosophic statements of Judaism, attempting to reconcile Moses with Aristotle, fostering scholasticism and influencing Thomas Aquinas et al.; it tries to explain which words in the Bible should be taken literally, metaphorically, and symbolically, accepting the Creation but dissing personal immortality, Aristotelizing Bible stories, e.g., Abraham and Sarah represent matter and form, Adam is the active spirit, Eve is passive matter (the root of all evil), and the serpent is imagination, pissing-off orthodox rabbis, who accuse him of "selling the Scriptures to the Greeks", and Qabbalists, who desecrate his tomb; "My primary object is to explain certain words occurring in the prophetic books"; "A thing which has in itself the necessity of existence cannot have for its existence any cause whatever"; "Everything except God has been brought into existence out of nonexistence"; "Incorporeal entities can only be numbered when they are forces situated in a body"; written "to promote the true understanding of the real spirit of the Law, to guide those religious persons who, adhering to the Torah, have studied philosophy and are embarrassed by the contradictions between the teachings of philosophy and the literal sense of the Torah"; the main purpose is to expound on Maaseh Bereishit and Maaseh Merkavah, works of Jewish mysticism regarding the theology of creation from Genesis and the passage of the Chariot from Ezekiel, the two main mystical texts in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible); written in Arabic in Hebrew chars., it is trans. into Hebrew in 1199-1204 by Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, and also into Latin, causing a firestorm of controversy; "The first who openly declared that Scripture must be accomodated to reason" (Baruch Spinoza). He leaves the 14-vol. Mishneh Torah (Repeition of the Torah) AKA Sefer yad ha-Hazaka (Book of the Strong Hand, taken from the Hebrew letters Yod + Dalet = 10 + 4 = Yad), documenting all Jewish laws back to Temple days.
On June 6, 1391 (Tammuz 1) taking advantage of the death of weak king John I last Oct. 9, who barely held Jew-hatred back, and the appointment of a weak regent council, a huge Jewish pogrom begins in Seville, Spain, killing 4K Jews out of 7K families, followed by Cordoba, Toledo, Majorca, Barcelona, and Valencia, causing many Jews to fake conversion to Roman Catholicism, beginning the phenomenon of mass Crypto-Judaism, which later backfires as nobody but their hairdressers know for sure?
In 1670 after breaking with Judaism after his father dies and going rationalist, pioneering modern Biblical criticism, Amsterdam-born Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza (1632-77) anon. pub. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, becoming the first Jewish philosopher to break from 12th cent. Spanish Jew Moses Maimonides, no longer reading the Bible homiletically or allegorically, but rationally, laying the foundations for modern textual criticism and fostering the eternal split between rationality and faith, claiming that if one interpreted the Bible through reason, it proves to be a human not a divinely inspired document; he also shows the contradiction between being a traditional Jew and a true liberal, pissing-off Jews with his rejection of the idea of a Chosen People, claiming that Jews survive by separatism, circumcision, and Gentile hatred, and that the Torah is the constitution of a Jewish state, hence kaput. On Feb. 21, 1677 he dies in The Hague of TB or silicosis caused by glass dust from his lens grinding trade, leaving Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, a philosophical treatise that tries to mimic Euclid's Elements, "the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely", causing Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to later utter the soundbyte: "You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all"; Pt. 2 focuses on the human mind and body, disputing Rene Descartes' mind-body dualism, arguing that they are one; Pt. 3 attempts to show that moral concepts incl. good, evil, virtue, and perfection have a basis in human psychology; "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death"; "The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but something of it remains which is eternal"; "When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it".
It took 1300 years after the 476 C.E. fall of Rome for the West to finally get its act together with the American Revolution in 1775 (1765)-83, a new beginning for humanity that reached back to the ancient Greeks and made use of all the wisdom since, becoming the greatest breakthrough in human liberty ever seen, making the U.S. Da (don't say Great White) Hope of Da Non-Allah-Submitting World ever since. No Mel, it wasn't a Jewish plot, or if so, they must have made up with the ancient pagan Greeks who liked to exercise naked with their uncircumcised dongs swinging like your Celt ancestors, how'd you get so rich? Some of the great Founding Fathers included George Washington (1732-99), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), James Madison (1751-1836), John Adams (1735-1826), Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), and Thomas Paine (1737-1809). They all based their philosophy on English big brain John Locke (1632-1704), ("Father of Liberalism"), French big brain Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu (1689-1755), and Scottish big brains David Hume (1711-76) and Adam Smith (1723-90), but went way beyond them. Yes, Jews helped too, particularly Haym (Chaim) Salomon (Solomon) (1740-85), who earned the title of "the Financial Hero of the Am. Rev."
Where did the U.S. Founding Fathers get their great ideas? Answer: they were historyscopers. Back then they didn't have the Internet like TLW, so access to historical materials was limited to the wealthy, and only those with great gobs of leisure time could absorb it all, so there these white English dudes were, hanging out in the libraries and studies in their mansions while their slaves supported them. No wonder they had an ambivalent attitude toward slavery, knowing that it was wrong but also not wanting to have to get a day job, but hedging their bets by laying the groundwork for racial equality on paper, while playing it safe and leaving the matter to posterity. Benjamin Franklin was an exception, a self-made man, so no surprise that he finally made peace with his conscience and denounced slavery just before he croaked of ripe old age. Tom Paine was a radical Freethinker who saw the French Revolution firsthand, and was always living off the income from his sensational writings, incl. The Age of Reason (1794-1807) (an American bestseller that argues for the existence of one God, but dissects the Bible to show its errors and contradictions, and slams the Bible god Jehovah as not the real God, but a tribal god of the Hebrews, little more than a bloodthirsty idol, not worthy of belief, too bad that Jefferson didn't loan him his Quran so he could tear it apart too), so of course he was the most vehement in denouncing slavery, knowing that they'd consider all his ideas kooky but cool enough to read in the loo. They were all ahead of their time, and the rest of the world is still catching up to their sound ideas, the world's main chance. Yes, there are still Deists around, and they do sometimes tear into the Quran, go Deists. So sorry, Pres. Obama,there wasn't a Muslim among them, but there were a lot of Freemasons among them, and they even laid out the U.S. capital city Washington, D.C. in a Masonic configuration. There were also Jews among them. In Germany in 1776 the mysterious Order of the Illuminati ("the Very Perfectibles") was founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria by Johann Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), with five members, allegedly secretly funded and masterminded by German Jewish banker Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1744-1812), the father of international banking (a Spinoza disciple), with a general plan of destroying the Christian order in Europe by infiltrating and turning nation against nation until it all turns to crap, then stirring the crap to create a New World Order (NWO), and which somehow was allegedly behind the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, the U.S. Civil War, the Russian Revolution, World Wars I and II, the League of Nations and U.N., and which is supposedly on its game to this day and will be there if/when there's an Armageddon, stay tuned to Armageddon Idol starring Simon Scowl. Alexander Hamilton was allegedly a secret Rothschild agent, which is why he pushed the creation of the First U.S. National Bank on Feb. 25, 1791, which became the mission of U.S. pres. #7 (1829-37) Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) to free the U.S. from, which he did, only to have it come back bigtime on Dec. 23, 1913 with the Federal Reserve, Illuminati shark music here.
It's all about freedom of expression? In 1842 22-y.-o. German Young Hegelian Friedrich Engels (1820-95) meets 24-y.-o. German Jewish know-it-all Karl Marx (1818-83) at the office of the Rheinische Zeitung, and Engels hooks up with Mary Burns (-1863) in Manchester, England, shacking up with her without doing that old-fashioned marriage thang, making enough money to support Marx, who next June 19 marries Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Freiin von Westphalen (1814-81), and they go on to have seven children, only three of whom survive to adulthood. In 1845 German writer Wilhelm Christian Weitling (1808-71) pub. Der Evangelium eines Armen Sunders (The Poor Sinner's Gospel), which traces Communism to 1st cent. Christianity, impressing Karl Marx. On Feb. 1, 1848 London Tribune reporter (managing ed. Richard Henry Dana Jr. - a coincidence? Did he mention his California days?) Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95) pub. The Manifesto of the Communist Party in London as a broadside for the coming revolutions, containing the immortal soundbyte: "When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class"; "A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism"; "Those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work"; when the little revvies all fizzle the document is repub. as The Communist Manifesto 20 years later, and those who think that socialism can be implemented bloodlessly are labelled as "utopian socialists"; of course the new Communist movement is militantly atheistic and anti-clerical.
In 1884 after seducing his wife's 13-y.o. sister Yuliana Dmitrievna "Justine" Glinka (1844-1918) in 1857, and getting her pregnant, Russian historical novelist Vsevolod Sergeyevich Solovyov (1849-1903), son of historian Sergei Solovyov and brother of philosopher Vladimir Solovyov flees to Paris and hooks up with Theosophy founder Madame Blavatsky, but breaks with her in 1886, denouncing her as a failed spy for the Okhrana; meanwhile Glinka moves to Paris and also hooks up with Blavatsky, becoming a secret agent of Okhrana chief in Paris (1885-1902) Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky (1853-1910), allegedly delivering the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to him. In 1903 after mystic Russian priest Sergius (Sergei) Alexandrovich Nilus (1862-1929) allegedly writes and presents it to the tsar, who declares it a fabrication and banishes him from the court, the Black Hundreds newspaper Znamya, owned by far-right anti-Semite Pavel Alekandrovich Krushevan (1860-1909) pub. the anon. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, detailing an alleged Zionist meeting in Basle in 1897 where plans were made by Jews and Freemasons to subvert and destroy Christendom and rule Da World, starting with the overthrow of the holy Russian govt.; in 1905 it is repub. as an appendix to a book by mystical philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (1853-1900), and it finally catches on as proved by 600 Okhrana-inspired Jewish pogroms throughout Russia that kill thousands in an effort to divert worker and peasant discontent away from the shaky govt.; although the Protocols are a total fabrication, they become a worldwide bestseller with anti-Semites until ?, and a favorite of Adolf Hitler; in 1921 the London Times claims them to be authentic before recanting; the first Arabic trans. appears in 1951, becoming a bestseller until ?; the real author is Paris-based Okhrana agent Matvei (Mathieu) Vasilyevich Golovinski (1865-1920)? In 1921 American automobile king Henry Ford (1863-1947) crows loudly about the Protocols, sponsoring the printing of 500K copies and saying "they fit in with what is going on... They are sixteen years old and have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit now." It's probably still a bestseller today on the Internet, although it's a total work of fiction, as if real Jews would write it all down in Russian not Hebrew and leave it where their worst enemies could get it, then not later claim copyright when they saw all the millions being printed, when not dodging horrible pogroms that is. The nice part about it is that every time the Jews overcome some obstacle to have a good future, the Protocols are dragged out and cited to prove it was all part of their insidious age-old plan to take over the world sans numbers or army, just pure brains, despite being an inferior race, while if something bad happens to the Jews, the Protocols are dragged out and cited to prove that the good guys are beating them, call it a new self-fulfilling edition of St. Mazel Tov's Revelation. Worse for anti-Semites, the Protocols declare that the future king of da world will be of "the dynastic roots of King David", and that "the King of the Jews will be the real Pope, "the patriarch of an international church", that "Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the Kings and their heirs... Only the King and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what's coming", and end with the statement: "Signed by the representatives of Sion of the 33rd Degree" of Freemasonry, who aren't practicing Jews but use the bloodline of King David as a punchline for their king of the Jews, Jesus. In other words, it was written by anti-Semitic Christians with their heads stuck up their butts. Okay, a lot of wealthy internat. banker Jews were into Freemasonry and any and all movements to create a One World Govt. (OWG) that they thought they could control via money, and some might have financed them if not attended their orgies. But is it their fault? Since Charlemagne the Jews were into banking and interest, after they were forced into it by Christendom as fit only for lowlife scum like them, not for good Christians, who reserved real jobs in govt. and military service for themselves. Prominent old Jewish banking families incl. the Rothschild ("red shield") Family, the Pereire (Péreire) Family, the Warburg Family, and the Oppenheim Family, who between them are alleged to help Jews control the world through the international banking system, which after WWII they have made so convoluted and interdependent that they can starve any country that gets pesky at will, except Muslim ones of course, they are into Islamic banking that has a different set of rules. Maybe not, ask George Soros (Gyorgy Schwartz) (1930-).
On Aug. 29-31, 1897 the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland was led by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and Max Simon Nordau (1849-1923), formulating a Zionist platform and founding the Zionist Org. (ZO), adopting Hatikvah as its anthem; Red Cross founder Henri Dunant was a prize guest; they went on to revive the Hebrew language; Herzl went on to meet with the pope, kaiser, sultan (4x), and other leaders to garner support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, becoming the first Zionist efforts to establish a Jewish state in Israel; the refusal of Sultan Abdulhamid II to give land to Jews for settlement leads to the abolition of the sultanate and caliphate?; Zionist leader Litman Rosenthal had a conversation with Herzl, in which he uttered his Great War Prophecy: "The great European war must come. With my watch in hand do I await this terrible moment. After the great European war is ended the Peace Conference will assemble. We must be ready for that time. We will assuredly be called to this great conference of the nations and we must prove to them the urgent importance of a Zionist solution to the Jewish Question." On Oct. 28, 1898 uppity Herzl briefly met with German kaiser (1888-1918) Wilhelm II (1859-1941) outside the city walls of Big J, through the wall they can see the baseball field, over there is the old warehouse with a tin roof. The kaiser was riding a white stallion and wearing a gold helmet, and after Herzl waited with his cheap safari hat in hand for an official recognition of his plan for resettling Jews in Israel, the kaiser uttered the soundbyte: "The land needs water, very much wasser", promising to put in a good word with the sultan for a Jewish chartered co. in Palestine under German protection. Instead it backfired as the kaiser strengthened Ottoman-German ties, helping launch the Pan-Arab movement with Germany as their #1 weapons supplier, investing heavily in the Baghdad Railway (1899) and other capital projects, then allying with them against the West in horrible WWI, the love between the anti-Semitic Germans and anti-Semitic Arabs will never end. In 1904 Herzl tried Pope (1903-14) Pius X (1835-1914), asking for Vatican support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, apparently unaware of the St. Augustine lovely brainwave. The pope's reply was the immortal soundbyte: "The Jews who should have been the first to acknowledge Jesus Christ have not done so to this day. And so if you come to Palestine and settle your people there, we will be ready with churches and priests to baptize all of you." Looking for love, starting tonight at the all-new Bachelor Pad. Of course, the Vatican refused to recognize the new state of Israel in 1948, stalling until Pope John Paul II did it in 1994, after even the PLO did it. Not that it was easy getting even fellow Jews on board.
In Aug. 1902 Baron Rothschild wrote a Letter to Theodor Herzl, with the soundbyte that he "should view with horror the establishment of a Jewish colony pure and simple; such a colony would be Imperium Imperio; it would be a Ghetto with the prejudice of the Ghetto; it would be a small petty Jewish state, orthodox and illiberal, excluding the Gentile and the Christian."
On Jan. 5, 1930 the Mapai (Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael) (Workers' Party of the Land of Israel) Party is founded by the merger of Hapoel Hatzair and Ahdut HaAvoda, becoming a member of the Labour and Socialist Internat. (until 1940); in the mid-1930s it is taken over by David Ben-Gurion (David Grün) (1886-1973), making him the de facto leader of the Jewish community (Yishuv) in Palestine.
In the 1930s City College of New York (CCNY) (founded 1847) becomes known as the Poor Man's Harvard, educating a generation of Jewish intellectuals shut out of elite private colleges, generating 10 Nobel Prize Winners et al.
In 1939-45 horrific $3.5T World War II resulted in 24M military and 49M civilian deaths, and featured the low Jewish Holocaust (Shoah) by the German Nazis, I guess it was the Jews' fault for not ransoming themselves to go to Israel before they could round them up for the camps. The whole experience turned Jews from lovers into fighters, ramping up the Zionist movement with full world sympathy and support by new world superpower U.S., which had its own guilt trip because on Nov. 24, 1942 Budapest-born Am. Zionist leader Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949) announced in a press conference in Washington, D.C. that he was authorized by the U.S. State Dept. to confirm that the Nazis had murdered 2M Jews as part of a plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe; too bad, the nat. newspapers didn't consider it front page news, and the U.S. govt. did nada. After the war ended and Americans toured the concentration camps in horror, Polish-born Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin (1900-59), who single-handedly led an unsuccessful campaign to get the League of Nations to give internat. protections against genocide starting in 1933 finally got what he wanted after his own people got it, namely the Dec. 9, 1948 U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Gen. Assembly Resolution 260), which didn't come in force until Jan. 12, 1951, and which the U.S. still didn't ratify until 1988.
On May 14, 1948 (midnight) the Jewish Nat. Council in Tel Aviv proclaims the formation of the new yes, Jewish State of Israel, with David Ben-Gurion (David Grun) (1886-1973) (known for the soundbyte "The Bible is our deed to the land of Israel") as PM #1 (until Jan. 24, 1954) after Jewish super-scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) politely declined, an Unwritten Israeli Constitution, and a unicameral Knesset (Heb. "assembly"), whose HQ along with the Israeli Supreme Court bldg. are paid for by Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation), chaired by wealthy English Zionist Dorothy Mathilde de Rothschild (nee Pinto) (1895-1988); "We offer peace and amity to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East." The U.S. recognizes it 11 min. later, but Pres. Truman refuses to call it a Jewish state, although he ignores advice from his advisers in order to recognize it because he believes that it fulfills Biblical prophecy; "Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel." (Ezekiel 37:12) The Israeli army has nine obsolete planes for an air force, no cannons or tanks, and 60K trained fighters, only 18.9K of them fully ready for fighting, causing operations chief Yigael Yadin to tell David Ben-Gurion, "The best we can tell you is that we have a 50-50 chance." On May 15, 1948 the British Palestine Mandate ends and the British withdraw, triggering the Jewish-Arab War with Arab states as Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Transjordanian troops, supported by Saudi and Yemenite troops attacked, screaming "Allahu Akbar", "Jihad", and "Idbah al-Yahud" (slaughter the Jews), showing that it isn't a nationalist but a religious struggle, a Muslim holy war or jihad, as shown by a 1947 fatwa by the ulema at Al-Ahzar U. in Cairo calling for "jihad to save Palestine and defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque", and a speech by Egyptian leader Mohammed Hussein Heykal Pasha to the U.N. a few days before the 1947 vote to partition Palestine: "There are a million Jews spread throughout the Middle East. It is not our humanitarian duty and your duty on behalf of the Jewish people to place in serious danger a million Jews just to save a few thousand in Europe or to satisfy a Zionist dream. You are unconsciously on the verge of lighting the flame of anti-Semitism in the Middle East, which would be more difficult to extinguish than it was in Germany. At present we regard the million Jews in our countries as brothers. Your decision would prompt some of our people to regard them as enemies. I warn you of this while there is still time." Sorry, but Islam will never accept the Jewish state of Israel no matter what outside nations do. The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon is founded to wage jihad, later becoming Hezbollah.
On June 10, 1948 Israeli Army (former U.S. Army) Col. (former U.S. Army) Col. David Daniel "Mickey" Marcus (b. 1901) is shot and killed by his own sentries while urinating in a field because he was wrapped in a bed sheet and they mistook him for an Arab. The war leads to displacement of Arab and Jewish pops. in the city. The 1.5K residents of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem are expelled and a few hundred taken POW when Transjordan's Arab Legion under British lt. gen. Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986) (AKA Glubb Pasha) captures the Jewish Quarter on May 28 ("The blackest event in Israel's War of Independence" - Teddy Kollek), going on to seize control of Judea and Samaria. The Arab Legion also attacks W Jerusalem with snipers, cutting off access by Jews to the Western Wall until 1967, and goes on to destroy or desecrate 50+ synagogues in the Jewish Quarter. Jordan annexes the ancient Jewish homeland of Judea and Samaria, but only Great Britain and Pakistan recognizes it.
On June 11, 1948 a ceasefire is declared, and only Britain recognizes the ceasefire lines, which after the 1967 war suddenly become sacred to Israel's enemies. Meanwhile Egypt occupies (but doesn't annex) Gaza. U.S. aircraft manufacturer Adolf "Al" Schwimmer (1917-2011) violates U.S. laws to smuggle surplus aricraft and found the Israeli Air Force on May 28, is convicted in 1950 of violating the U.S. Neutrality Act, and beccomes pres. of Israel Aircraft Industries until 1978, finally receiving a pardon by Pres. Bill Clinton in 2000. In June 1948 the U.N. Truce Supervision Org. (UNTSO) (the first U.N. peacekeeping force) is established to oversee the truce, with HQ in Jerusalem. Golda Meir (1898-1978) becomes the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. After losing 6,373 of 650K Israelis and spending $500M to achieve the truce, Ha Tikva(h) becomes the Israeli national anthem. The knee-jerk reaction of Arabs is to expel all Jews from Arab cities from Casablanca to Baghdad. The Christian pop. of Jordanian Jerusalem falls from 25K to 11K by 1967 as restrictive laws were placed on them. Back in the U.S., on June 8, 1948 New York City-born Jewish comedian Milton "Uncle Miltie" Berle (Mendel Berlinger) (1908-2002) hosts the first 1-hour Texaco Star Theater, which causes TV to become wildly popular in the U.S., causing Berle to be called "Mr. Television"; the show lasts until June 1956.
On Mar. 28, 2011 Israel finally passes the controversial Citizenship Act, allowing the govt. to revoke citizenship from those "harming Israel's sovereignty".
Even as the Arabs unite and position for the final kill, not even Zionist Jews are a solid block. On July 3, 1982 after becoming an atheist and dumping Zionism because of his perception that it's run by the Orthodox, combined with his ignorance of Islam, German-born Israeli former Irgun and Knesset member Uri Avneri (Avnery) (1923-) crossed the battle lines during the Battle of Beirut and became the first Israeli to personally meet with Yasser Arafat, founding the leftist Gush Shalom (Peace Coalition) in 1993. In 2003 longtime Jewish Zionist scholar Tony R. Judt (1948-2010) came out against Israel, calling it a "belligerently intolerant, faith-driven ethno state" and calling for its conversion "from a Jewish state to a binational one" that incl. guess what, causing a firestorm of controversy. I think he meant bireligious one, but either way it's too bad he can't grok the historical right of Jews to Israel, and how Arabs have no right, just their evil idol in Mecca and his Quran that makes them keep throwing themselves at it. As to ethno state, why doesn't he take on China, he'll need a thousand lifetimes for that cause. Another Israeli Jew who turned against Israel for its perceived oppression of Palestinians is Gideon Levy (1953-), ed. of Haaretz, who sticks it in Israelis' faces by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories and reporting every bad thing he sees or hears, causing him to be called the most hated man in Israel. He wants an unconditional Israeli pullout instead of an unconditional Arab pullout, maybe it never occurred to him. Another famous Jewish brain man is Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-), founder of modern linguistics, who also buys the propaganda about the Palestinian "indigenous population" and that Israel is racist not to incorporate them as equal citizens, but who nevertheless supports a 2-state solution, and who questions the 6 million figure in the Holocaust, which despite no actual historical verification has become a sacred cow among Zionists who have an active pressure campaign to block verification attempts for fear that the number might not come out right, as if it matters, I guessed I missed that part of the Bible. On May 16, 2010 Chomsky was allegedly barred by the Israelis from entering the West Bank from Jordan, after which the Israeli govt. claimed it was just a border guard screwup. Another Jewish scholar who turned against Israel is American prof. Richard Anderson Falk (1930-), who uttered the soundbyte that it is not "an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with the criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity." Another is Jerusalem-born novelist Amos Oz (Klausner) (1939-), who in 2004 pub. the essay "How To Cure a Fanatic", which concludes that the whole Israeli-Palesinian conflict is just a real estate dispute, ask George Soros how big a check to write if they'll just clear out. Talking about screwed up, the ultimate is "Hebrew speaking Palestinian" "proud self-hating Jew" "ex-Jew" Gilad Atzmon (1963-), a popular Israeli-born jazz musician based in England, who started out Zionist then turned virulently anti-Zionist and began calling for the Palestian right of return to the "stolen land" of Israel to swamp the Nazi-like invader Jews out, along with a 1-state solution, a purely secular state, hehe, Allah Akbar, uttering the soundbyte that this kind of justice for the pesky Palestinians is "at the heart of the battle for a better world", even backing Helen Thomas. In 2001 he became a novelist, publishing A Guide to the Perplexed, portraying Israel as replaced by a Palestinian state in 2012 after "the unthinking Chosen" who "cling to clods of earth that don't belong to them" are defeated, and their propaganda that "argues that the Holocaust is invoked as a kind of reflexive propaganda designed to shield the Zionist state from responsibility for any transgression against Palestinians" is laughed away. Like Chomsky he doesn't go for the unsupported 6 million figure, saying "As it happened, it took me many years to understand that the Holocaust, the core belief of the contemporary Jewish faith, was not at all an historical narrative, for historical narratives do not need the protection of the law and politicians." Interestingly, he admits that "the Jews were responsible for the killing of Jesus", adding "How is that people living today feel accountable or chased for a crime committed by their great great ancestors almost 2,000 years ago." Yes, anti-Semitism has many deep roots, and his copping-out to Islam and its demands for total superiority in their indivisible Ummah won't save him anymore than other Jews, making them an ethnic group on the hairy edge of the Abyss, who can't afford the luxury of self-hate. Maybe he will study this Historyscope and wake up that he is a Jew even to Muslims, who would love to you know what in the final extermination after weakening the U.S. enough. Another anti-Zionist Israeli Jew is Oren Yiftachel (1956-) of Ben Gurion U. in the Negev, who blames Zionism for creating an "ethnocracy", and wants to turn the Negev into the mini-state of Bedouinstan, let's do names later, what's that Jew's last fixed position? Another Jewish flip-flopper is former Knesset member Avraham Burg (1955-), who pub. The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes in 2008, shocking fellow Israelis by his pretzel logic of comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, as if they're both morally equivalent because they are both stubbornly retro nation-states in a world increasingly going toward one world govt., although Nazi Germany was all about one world govt. too, theirs, a world free of Jews forever, oi vey. Burg made the statement that Jews shouldn't wallow in the Holocaust, which is right-on, since the right of Israel to exist goes back 3,000 years and doesn't depend on it, but he also said that "this is Hitler's paradoxical and tragic victory", when actually it's about strength and fighting to keep their Jewish homeland, a failure of will being the only real victory for Hitler, sorry, Burg is one. Another one is real victory for Hitler, sorry, Burg is one. Another one is Jerusalem-born David Grossman (1954-), who in 1998 pub. The Yellow Wind, taking the side of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, getting his novels on Pres. Obama's reading list with the soundbyte "I could not understand how an entire nation like mine, an enlightened nation by all accounts, is able to train itself to live as a conqueror without making its own life wretched", any friend of the big balls is a friend of mine. Another one is Michael Neumann (1946-), who in 2005 pub. "The Case Against Israel" in reply to "The Case for Israel" (2003) by pro-Israeli Harvard law prof. Alan Dershowitz (1938-), claiming that the true goal of Israel is to exterminate the so-called Palestinian people, with the soundbyte "True, Israel has enough PR-savvy to eliminate them with an American rather than a Hitlerian level of violence. This is a kinder, gentler genocide that portrays its perpetrators as victims." Neumann gives away his ignorance of Islam with the soundbyte "Just imagine if the U.S. stopped backing Israel and gave even moderate support to the Palestinians. Suddenly Islam and America would be on the same side." Duh, Islam declared war on the world way before there was a state of Israel or a U.S., and with Israel out of the way today they'd just be one step closer to planting the Islamic flag in Washington, yes, at that point they'd be on the same side, and most of us would be dead or enslaved. Another pro-Palestinian American Jew is Norman Gary Finkelstein (1953-), who in 2001 pub. "The Holocaust Industry", claiming that the Zionists use the Holocaust to turn cash from the Germans and the Swiss, then rake the money for themselves and leave little for actual survivors. He got into a big catfight with Dershowitz, jokes about two Jews digging the Grand Canyon fighting over a dropped penny here. A milder one is Jewish-American journalist Richard Ben Cramer (1950-), who pub. How Israel Lost: Four Questions in 2004, which takes the "plague on both your houses" approach and asks Israel why it doesn't give Gaza and the West Bank back, as if Israel's original smaller version was the only pure one, when maybe it needed to be much much larger to start with. I saved the best for last, Austrian-born Tel Aviv U. prof. Shlomo Sand (1946-), who in 2008 pub. the internat. bestseller (favorite with anti-Semites everywhere) The Invention of the Jewish People, which seizes on a soundbyte that 15% of the ancient Roman Empire was Jewish because of mass conversion to claim that there never was a Jewish "nation-race", that many Jews are really descendants of converted Arabs, Berbers, Khazars, etc., and that Zionists have created the myth for "racist thinking", with the soundbyte "The ideal project for solving the century-long conflict... would be the creation of a democratic binational state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River." How about the ideal project being the creation of a democratic uninational state in the same region composed only of Jews, after all the Muslims either skedaddle or convert? Actually nobody knows the real Jewish pop. of the ancient Roman Empire, even in Israel, and as for Rome itself, the Jews were forced to live in one of the shittiest areas with a poisoned aqueduct, and their Jewish catacombs don't seem to hold that many people, 50K maybe, with most of them fleeing from Israel because of the Roman wars, or brought in as slaves by the Romans and later freed, with any uncircumcised Roman who converted to Judaism and quit eating pork and started studying the seditious laws of Moses being treated as a leper by the aristocracy, and likely confused with a Christian, so to propose a master theory of Jewish history as a total fiction cooked up by racists based on somebody's estimate of that long-dead pop. is not only shakier than Japan during an earthquake, the work of an Israel history ignoramus who is too lazy to study the subject before pontificating about it, it's obviously a tawdry attempt to push a modern political agenda, like anti-Semitism and the illegitimization of the Jewish state of Israel, tell me, does a thief or robber turn on the lights when robbing your house.
Right now not only the pesky Muslims have their hands in lobbying in Washington, D.C., but leftist Jews who seem to hate Israel are there too, particularly the cryptically anti-Israel J Street lobbying firm (founded 2008), which the Obama admin. supports, which was secretly funded by Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire George Soros (1930-) (known for working for the Nazi-run Jewish Council in 1944 before emigrating to the U.S. and getting rich, causing him to be accused of being willing to sell-out his fellow Jews for his own survival etc.) until they couldn't cover it up anymore in 2010, which the definitely pro-Israel American Israeli Action Coalition (AIAC), composed of expatriate American citizens in Israel (not to be confused with the American Jewish-run pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)) calls "a radical, far left, anti-Israel, American organization funded by Arab and radical sources", calling in Jan. 2010 for the ouster of Obama's anti-Semitism czar (2009-) Hannah Rosenthal (1951-) for dissing Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren for criticizing it; of course he kept her (until Oct. 5, 2012).
What will the future bring? To be blunt, the JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL will be here a thousand years from now, whether or not there still is a United States of America, England, France, Germany, or Muslim World, and so if we want to be here a thousand years from now we need to be smart and do everything we can to have its back, no matter whom it pisses-off, sorry. In this sense Da Jews DO Rule Da World, because every possible scenario for world peace must include them in.
| Name | Born In | Profession | Notable Achievements |
Sheldon Gary Adelson (1933-) |
Boston, Mass. | Business magnate ($28B) | CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Backer of the Repub. Party incl. Donald Trump |
 Heywood "Woody" Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) (1935-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Actor-comedian-playwright-filmmaker | Annie Hall (1977) |
 Isaac Asimov (Isaak Osimov) (1920-92) |
Petrovichi, Russia | Super-brain writer (500+ books) | The Foundation Series |
 David M. Axelrod (1955-) |
New York City | Political operative-analyst | Chief campaign strategist and senior advisor for Pres. Barack Obama |
 David Joshua Azrieli (1922-2014) |
Makow, Mazowiecki, Poland. Emigrated to Canada in 1954. | Real estate tycoon ($3.1B) | Builder of the Jerusalem Shopping Mall in Malha, Jerusalem, and the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest real estate project. |
 Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (1956-) |
Detroit, Mich. | Businessman ($22.7B) | CEO of Microsoft (2000-14) |
 Ellen Rona Barkin (1954-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Actress. Wife (2000-6) of Ron Perelman (1943-). | "Diner" (1982) |
 Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) (1894-1974) |
Chicago, Ill. | Comedian | "Well!" |
Milton "Uncle Miltie" Berle (Mendel Berlinger) (1908-2002) |
Harlem, N.Y. | Entertainer ("Mr. Television") | Host, NBC-TV's Texaco Star Theater (1948-55) |
 Ben Shalom Bernanke (1953-) |
Augusta, Ga. | Economist | Chmn. #14 of the Federal Reserve System (2006-14) |
 Jared Bernstein (1955-) |
Economist | Adviser to U.S. vice-pres. Joseph Biden (2009-) | |
 Lloyd Craig Blankfein (1954-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Banker | CEO, Goldman Sachs (May 2006-) |
 Antony John "Tony" Blinken (1962-) |
New York City | Atty. | Deputy nat. security advisor (2013-15), deputy secy. of state (2015-) |
 Michael Rubens Bloomberg (1942-) |
Boston, Mass. | Wall Street tycoon ($44.7B) | Repub. mayor #108 of New York City (2002-13) |
 Barbara Levy Boxer (1940-) |
New York City | U.S. Rep. (D-Calif.) (1983-93) and U.S. Sen. (D-Calf.) (1993-) | |
 Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (1973-) |
Moscow, Russia. Emigrated to the U.S. in May 1979 | Internet mogul ($37.1B) | Co-founder, Google (1998) |
 Charles Bronfman (193-) |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Samuel Bronfman (1889-1971). Brother of Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013). | Liquor magnate ($2B) | Pres. of Seagrams Ltd. (1971-94) |
 Edgar Miles "Efer" Bronfman Jr. (1955-) |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013). | Liquor magnate ($2.5B) | Pres. of Seagrams Ltd. (1994-2000). CEO, Warner Music Group (2004-11) |
 Edgar Miles Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013) |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Samuel Bronfman (1889-1971). Brother of Charles Bronfman (1931-). | Liquor magnate-philanthropist ($2.6B) | Pres. of Seagrams Ltd. (1971-94). Pres., World Jewish Congress (Jan. 1981-May 7, 2007) |
 Matthew Bronfman (1959-) |
New York City. Son of Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929-2013) | Businessman-philanthropist | One of the largest Am. Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, incl. Israel Discount Bank and Shufersal supermarket chain. |
 Melvin James "Mel" Brooks (Kaminsky) (1926-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Filmmaker | "Blazing Saddles" (1974), "Young Frankenstein" (1974) |
 Phyllis Chesler (1940-) |
New York City | Anti-Islam Zionist feminist psychologist | Phyllis Chesler |
Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
Philadelphia, Penn. | Linguist-philosopher and leftist activist | Pro-two-state solution. |
 Peter Coyote (1941-) |
New York City | Film actor-dir.-writer | Keys in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
 William Edward "Billy" Crystal (1948-) |
New York City | Actor-comedian-dir.-TV host | "When Harry Met Sally" (1989), "City Slickers" (1991), "Analyze This" (1999) |
Alan Morton Dershowitz (1938-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Atty. and pro-Israel activist | Prof. at Harvard Law School (1967-) |
 Francine Joy "Fran" Drescher (1957-) |
Kew Gardens, Queens, N.Y. | Actress-comedian-activist | Fran Fine in The Nanny (1993-99). U.S. diplomacy envoy for women's health issues (Sept. 2008-) |
 Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) (1941-) |
Duluth, Minn. | Singer-songwriter | "Blowin' in the Wind", "The Times They Are a-Changin'", "Like a Rolling Stone", "Lady Lady Lay" |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Ulm, Germany | Super-brain physicist | 1921 Nobel Physics Prize |
 Michael Dammann Eisner (1942-) |
Mount Kisco, N.Y. | Movie studio exec | Paramount Pictures (1976-84), Walt Disney Co. (1984-2005) |
 Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (1944-) |
Manhattan, N.Y. | Computer software mogul ($56.2B) | Co-founder, Oracle Corp. (1977) |
 Rahm Israel Emanuel (1959-) |
Chicago, Ill. | Dem. politician | Mayor #55 of Chicago, Ill. (2011-) |
 Paul Erdös (1913-96) |
Budapest, Hungary | Super-brain mathematician | Pub. 1,525 mathematical articles w/511 different collaborators |
 Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (1933-) |
San Francisco, Calif. | U.S. Sen. (D-Calif.) (1992-) | Oldest serving U.S. Senator |
 Eric David Fingerhut (1959-) |
Cleveland, Ohio | Politician-education exec | U.S. Rep. (D-Ohio) (1993-5). Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents (2007-11). CEO of Hillel |
 Harrison Ford (1942-) |
Chicago, Ill. | Actor-producer | Han Solo in "Star Wars", Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Rick Deckard in "Blade Runner", Jack Ryan in "Clear and Present Danger" |
 Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (1951-) |
New York City | U.S. Sen. (D-Minn.) (2009-) | Started out as a comedian |
 Thomas Friedman (1953-) |
St. Louis Park, Minn. | Writer-journalist | New York Times |
 Diane von Fürstenberg (1946-) |
Brussels, Belgium | Fashion designer | Wrap dress |
 David Lawrence Geffen (1943-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Gay billionaire entertainment tycoon. Founder of Asylum Records (1970), Geffen Records (1980), DGC Record (1990), and DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) (1994) | |
 Pamela Geller (1958-) |
Hewlett Harbor, N.Y. | Conservative anti-Islam Zionist activist-blogger | |
 Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (1933-) |
New York City | Liberal jurist | U.S. Supreme Court assoc. justice (1993-) |
 Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum (1952-) |
West Homestead, Penn. | Actor | "The Fly", "Jurassic Park", "Independence Day" |
 Alan Greenspan (1926-) |
New York City | Economist | Federal Reserve Chmn. #13 (1987-2006) |
 Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (1980-) |
Los Angeles, Calif. | Actor | Homer Hickam in "October Sky", Jack Twist in "Brokeback Mountain", "Nightcrawler" |
 Goldie Jeanne Hawn (1945-) |
Washington, D.C. | Actress-filmmaker | "Cactus Flower", "Shampoo", "Shampoo", "Private Benjamin", "The First Wives Club" |
 Dustin Lee Hoffman (1937-) |
Los Angeles, Calif. | Actor-dir. | "Midnight Cowboy", "Little Big Man", "Straw Dogs", "Papillon", "Lenny", "Marathon Man", "Kramer vs. Kramer", "Tootsie", "Rain Man" |
 David Joel Horowitz (1939-) |
Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y. | Communist-turned-Conservative activist | Founder, David Horowitz Freedom Center |
 Carl Celian Icahn (1936-) |
New York City | Business mogul | Founder, Icahn Enterprises (Am. Real Estate Partners) |
 Scarlett Johansson (1984-) |
New York City | Actress-singer | "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), "Girl with a Pearl Earrring" (2003), "Lost in Translation" (2003) |
 Elena Kagan (1960-) |
New York City | Jurist | Dean #11 of Harvard Law School (2003-9) (first woman), U.S. Supreme Court assoc. justice (Aug. 7, 2010-) |
 Meir David Kahane (1932-90) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Militant nationalist rabbi | Founder, Jewish Defense League (1968-) |
 Donna Karan (1948-) |
Queens, N.Y. | Fashion designer | Creater of the DKNY clothing label |
 Henry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger (1923-) |
Furth, Bavaria, Germany. Emigrated to the U.S. in 1938 | Political scientist-diplomat | U.S. nat. security advisor (1969-75), U.S. secy. of state #56 (1973-7). 1973 Nobel Peace Prize |
 Calvin Richard Klein (1942-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Bronx, N.Y. | Calvin Klein Jeans |
 Morton A. Klein |
Gunzberg, Germany | Economist-activist | Pres., Zionist Org. of Am. (ZOA) |
 Paul Robin Krugman (1953-) |
Albany, N.Y. | Economist | 2008 Nobel Econ. Prize |
 Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (1948-) |
Queens, N.Y. | Futurist inventor-computer scientist | Nat. Medal of Technology and Innovation (1999) |
 Rabbi Daniel Lapin (1947-) |
Johannesburg, South Africa. Became U.S. citizen in 1973 | Orthodox rabbi. Co-founder, Toward Tradition (1991). Pres., Am. Alliance of Jews and Christians | |
Ronald Steven Lauder (1944-) |
New York City. Son of Estee Lauder | Repub. politician-diplomat | U.S. ambassador to Austria (1986-7). Pro-Israeli candidate for New York City mayor in 1989. Owner, Central European Media Enterprises |
 Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz) (1939-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Fashion designer ($8B) | |
 Norman Milton Lear (1922-) |
New Haven, Conn. | TV writer-producer | "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "The Jeffersons", "Good Times", "Maude". Founder, People for the American Way (1981) |
 Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lew (1955-) |
New York City | Atty.-banker-govt. administrator | U.S. treasury secy. #76 (2013-). Most powerful Jew in the Obama admin.? |
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch) (1926-) |
Newark, N.J. | Super-comedian-actor-singer-dir.-producer-writer-humanitarian | The Nutty Professor (1963) |
 Joseph Isadore 'Joe' Lieberman (1942-) |
Stamford, Conn. | U.S. Sen. (I-Conn.) (1989-2013 | U.S. Dem. vice-pres. candidate in 2000 with Al Gore (first Jew) |
 Harry B. Macklowe (1937-) |
Westchester County, N.Y. | New York City real estate magnate ($2B) | 400 Madison Av., 540 Madison Ave., Drake Hotel, Gen. Motors HQ |
 Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (1938-) |
Queens, N.Y. | Financier | Convicted in 2009 of running a massive Ponzi scheme - he made off with their money? |
 Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel (1955-) |
Toronto, Ont., Canada | Comedian | "Deal or No Deal" |
 Jackie Mason (Yacov Moshe Maza) (1931-) |
Sheboygan, Wisc. | Comedian-actor | Founder, One Jerusalem (Jan. 2001) |
 Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller) (1979-) |
West Chester, Penn. | Reggae (holy hip-hop) musician-singer | "King Without a Crown" (2005) |
 Michael Medved (1948-) |
Philadelphia, Penn. | Film critic, political commentator | "The Michael Medved Show". Co-founder, Toward Tradition (1991) |
 Michael Robert Milken (1946-) |
Encino, Calif. | Financier ("the Junk Bond King") | Indicted for security fraud in 1989 - he was into robbin' and milkin'? |
Irving I. Moskowitz (1928-) |
New York City | Hospital-bingo-casino magnate | Founder, Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation. Assoc. of the conservative Ariel Center for Policy Research. Funds Jewish settlements in Palestine, er, Israel |
 Peter Munk (1927-) |
Budapest, Hungary | Gold mining magnate | Founder, Barrick Gold |
 Leonard Simon Nimoy (1931-2015) |
Boston, Mass. | Actor-dir.-writer | Mr. Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-9) |
 Peter Richard Orszag (1968-) |
Boston, Mass. | Banker-economist | Dir. #37 of the U.S. Office of Mgt. and Budget (OMB) (2009-10) |
 Lawrence "Larry" Page (1973-) |
East Lansing, Mich. | Internet mogul ($38B) | Co-founder, Google (1998) |
 Ronald Owen 'Ron' Perelman (1943-) |
Greensboro, N.C. | Investor-businessman-philanthropist ($12.2B) | Husband (2000-6) of actress Ellen Barkin (1954-) |
 Daniel Pipes (1949-) |
Boston, Mass. | Historian of the Middle East | Pres., Middle East Forum |
 Ruth Porat (1957-) |
Sale, Manchester, England | Financial executive | CFO, Morgan Stanley (Jan. 2010-May 2015), CFO, Alphabet (May 2015-) |
 Natalie Portman (Neta-Lee Hershlag) (1981-) |
Jerusalem, Israel. Duel U.S.-Israeli citizenship. | Actress-producer-dir. | Padme Amidala in "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy" (1999, 2002, 2005) |
 Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) (1905-82) |
St. Petersburg, Russia | Novelist-philosopher-playwright. Founder of Objectivism. | "The Fountainhead" (1943). "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) |
 Robert "Rob" Reiner (1947-) |
Bronx, N.Y. | Actor-writer-dir.-producer-activist | Michael "Meatball" Stivic in "All in the Family". "When Harry Met Sally" (1989), "A Few Good Men" (1992) |
 Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (1926-2017) |
Queens, N.Y. | Actor-comedian | Mr. Potato Head in "Toy Story" |
 Seth Aaron Rogen (1982-) |
Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Am. father, Canadian mother | Actor-comedian-filmmaker | "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", "The Green Hornet", Steve Wozniak in "Steve Jobs", "The Interview" |
 Ronald "Ron" Rosenbaum (1946-) |
New York City | Historian-journalist-novelist | Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (1998) |
Hannah Rosenthal (1951-) |
Obama admin. anti-Semitism czar (Nov. 23, 2009-Oct. 5, 2012) | J-Street supporter | |
 Steven "Steve" Rosenthal (1953-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Dem. Party and AFL-CIO political strategist | CEO of America Coming Together (ACT) (2003) |
 Dennis B. Ross (1948-) |
San Francisco, Calif. | Diplomat | Special Middle East coordinator for Pres. Bill Clinton, special Persian Gulf advisor for Secy. of State Hillary Clinton |
Haim Saban (1944-) |
Alexandria, Egypt | Media mogul ($3B) | Founder, Saban Entertainment. Backer of leftist-progressive causes, Israel, and the Dem. Party incl. Hillary Clinton |
 Sheryl Kara Sandberg (1969-) |
Washington, D.C. | Technology exec ($1.3B) | COO, Facebook (Mar. 2008-) |
 Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (1941-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | 1960s Jewish radical Socialist. U.S. Rep. (I-Vt.) (1991-2007) and U.S. Sen. (D-Vt.) (2007-) | 2016 Dem. candidate for U.S. pres. More pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel? |
 Adam Richard Sandler (1966-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Actor-comedian-filmmaker | "Billy Madison" (1995), "Happy Gilmore" (1996), "The Waterboy" (1998), "The Wedding Singer" (1998) |
 Debbie Schlussel (1969-) |
Southfield, Mich. | Atty.-blogger | www.debbieschlussel.com |
 Debbie Wasserman Schultz (1966-) |
Queens, N.Y. | U.S. Rep (D-Fla.) (2001-3, 2005-). First Jewish congresswoman elected in Fla. | Chmn., Dem. Nat. Committee (May 4, 2011-) |
 Lynn Schusterman (1939-) |
Kansas City, Mo. | Philanthropist ($4.5B) | Co-founder, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation |
 Bernard Leon Schwartz (1926-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | CEO, Loral Space and Communications | Big donor to the Dem. Party incl. Hillary Clinton |
 Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (1954-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Comedian-actor-writer-producer. Collaborator of Larry David (1947-). | Seinfeld (1989-98) |
 Garry Emmanuel Shandling (1949-2016) |
Chicago, Ill. | Actor-comedian-writer-dir.-producer | "It's Garry Shandling's Show" |
 Daniel B. "Dan" Shapiro (1969-) |
Champaign, Ill. | Diplomat | U.S. ambassador #19 to Israel (Aug. 3, 2011-) |
 William "Bill" Shatner (1931-) |
Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Actor-dir.-writer | Capt. James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-9) |
 Wendy Ruth Sherman (1949-) |
Upstate N.Y. | U.S. undersecy. of state (2011-15). Founder, Fannie Mae Foundation | |
 Rabbi Joseph (Yoshe) Ber Soloveitchik (1903-93) |
Pruzhany, Grodno, Russia. Emigrated to Boston, Mass. in 1932 | Rabbi-philosopher | Founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism |
 Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930-) |
New York City | Composer-lyricist | "A Little Night Music", "Sweeney Todd", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods", "West Side Story", "Gypsy" |
George Soros (1930-) |
Budapest, Hungary | Business magnate ($24.5B) | Founder, Soros Mgt. Fund. Backer of leftist-progressive causes via the Open Society Foundations (founded 1993) |
 Aaron Spelling (1923-2006) |
Dallas, Tex. | Film-TV producer (218 shows) | Founder, Spelling Television, producer of "Charlie's Angels" (1976-81), "The Love Boat" (1977-86), "Dynasty" (1981-9), and "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990-2000) |
 Eugene B. "Gene" Sperling (1958-) |
Ann Arbor, Mich. | Economist | Dir. #9 of the Nat. Economic Council (2011-14) |
 Steven Spielberg (1946-) |
Cincinnati, Ohio | Film dir.-producer-writer | Schindler's List (1993) |
 Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein (1944-) |
Washington, D.C. | Actor-atty.-commentator | "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" |
 Gloria Marie Steinem (1934-) |
Toledo, Ohio | Feminist activist | Co-founder, Ms. mag. (1971) |
 Howard Allan Stern (1954-)) |
Queens, N.Y. | Shock jock, "the King of All Media" | "The Howard Stern Show", 1986- |
 Todd D. Stern (1951-) |
Chicago, Ill. | Global warming advocate | U.S. special envoy for climate change (2009-16) |
 Jon Stewart (Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz) (1962-) |
New York City | Comedian | Host, The Daily Show (1999-2015) |
 Benjamin Edward Meara "Ben" Stiller (1965-) |
New York City | Actor-comedian-filmmaker | "Zoolander", "The Cable Guy", "There's Something About Mary", "Meet the parents" |
 Barbra (Barbara Joan) Streisand (1942-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Singer-actress-filmmaker | Sold 68.5M albums in the U.S., and 145M worldwide |
 Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (1954-) |
New Haven, Conn. | Economist | U.S. treasury secy. #71 (1999-2001), Dir. #8 of the Nat. Economic Council (2009-10) |
 Cass Robert Sunstein (1954-) |
Concord, Mass. | Legal scholar | |
 Henry Swieca |
Born in ?. Polish Jewish immigrant parents. Raised in Washington Heights, N.Y. | Wall Street magnate ($1.56B) | Co-founder, Highbridge Capital Mgt. Founder, Talpion Fund Mgt. Conservative pro-Israel. Backer of the Temple Inst. that wants to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem |
 Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (1918-2012) |
Brookline, Mass. | TV journalist | 60 Minutes, 1968-2008 |
 Barbara Walters (1929-) |
Boston, Mass. | TV journalist | The Today Show, 1962-76 |
 Anthony David Weiner (1964-) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | U.S. Rep. (D-N.Y.) (1999-2011) | Resigned after showing his weiner to adult women on Twitter. |
 Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (1928-2016) |
Sighet, Maramures, Romania | Writer-activist | 1986 Nobel Peace Prize |
 Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (1943-) |
New York City | Political scientist | U.S. deputy secy. of defense (2001-5), Pres., World Bank (2005-7) |
 Janet Louise Yellen (1946-) |
New York City | Economist | Chmn. #15 of the Federal Reserve System (Feb. 3, 2014-) |
 Samuel "Sam" Zell (Shmuel Zielonka) (1941-) |
Chicago, Ill. | Billionaire real estate tycoon ($5B) | Buys the Tribune Co. in Dec. 2007, owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune |
 Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Zients (1966-) |
Kensington, Md. | Economist | Dir. #10 of the Nat. Economic Council (Mar. 5, 2014-) |
 Howard Zinn (1922-2010) |
Brooklyn, N.Y. | Historian | A People's History of the United States (1980) |
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (1984-) |
White Plains, N.Y. | Internet magnate ($51.8B) | Co-founder, Facebook (2004) |
| Name | Born In | Profession | Notable Achievements |
 Helena Bonham Carter (1966-) |
Islington, London | Actress | Bellatrix Lestrange in "Harry Potter" (2007-11), "Big Fish", "Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd", Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland" |
 Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (1971-) |
Hammersmith, London | Actor-comedian-writer | "Borat" (2006) |
 Sonia Anne Primrose Friedman (nee Freedman) (1965-) |
Theater-TV producer | "Jerusalem" (2010). "Wolf Hall" (2015-) | |
 David Wright Miliband (1965-) |
London. Brother of Ed Miliband (1969-) | Labour Party MP (2001-13) | Foreign secy. (2007-10) |
 Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (1969-) |
Fitzrovia, London. Brother of David Miliband (1965-) | Labour Party MP (2005-) | Leader of the opposition (2010-15) |
 Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936-) |
England | Banker-philanthropist | Chmn., Yad Hadiv (1989-) |
 Nathaniel Philip Victor James "Nat" Rothschild (1971-) |
England. Son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936-). Relocated to Klosters, Switzerland. Canadian citizen | Financier and scion of the Rothschild Family | Chmn., JNR Ltd., Atticus Capital (1996-2009). Inheriting the family fortune of £40B, disguised to look like £500M? Really $500T? |
 Simon Michael Schama (1945-) |
Marylebone, London | Historian | A History of Britain (2000-2) |
 Harry Oscar Triguboff (1933-) |
Dalian, China. Emigrated to Australia in 1947 | Real estate magnate ($7B) ("High-Rise Harry"). Wealthiest person in Australia | Meriton Apts. |
 Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
Vienna, Austria | Philosopher. Student of Bertrand Russell | Prof. at Cambridge U. "Philosophical Investigations" (1953) |
| Name | Born In | Profession | Notable Achievements |
 Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) |
Copenhagen, Denmark | Quantum physicist | 1922 Nobel Physics Prize |
 Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (1953-) |
Moscow, Russia | Fertilizer magnate-philanthropist ($2.3B) | Pres., European Jewish Congress (EJC) (2007-) |
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Weinstein) (1963-) |
Baku, Azerbaijan. Russian Jewish father, Armenian mother | Chess player-activist | World chess champ 1985-2000 |
 Rabbi Berel (Shalom Dovber Pinchas) Lazar (1964-) |
Milan, Italy | Orhodox Hasidic rabbi | Chief rabbi of Russia (June 13, 2001-) |
Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948-) |
Beni Saf, French Algeria. Raised in Paris, France | Political philosopher | Founder of the anti-Marxist New Philosophers (Nouveaux Philosophes). Author of "The Spirit of Judaism" (2016) |
 Dominique Gaston Andre Strauss-Kahn (1949-) |
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | Politician-economist | Dir., Internat. Monetary Fund (IMF), 2007-11 |
 Éric Zemmour (1958-) |
Montreuil, France | Right-wing writer | Author of "The French Suicide" (2014) |
| Name | Born In | Profession | Notable Achievements |
Shari Arison (1957-) |
New York City | Banker ($4.9B). Richest woman in the Middle East | Owner of Arison Investments and Bank Hapoalim |
 Rachel Azaria (1977-) |
Jerusalem | Kulanu Party politician | MK (2015-) |
 Nir Barkat (1959-) |
Jerusalem | Politician-businessman | Mayor of Jerusalem (2008-) |
 David Michael Blatt (1959-) |
Boston, Mass. Emigrated to Israel in 1981. | Basketball player-coach | Head coach, Cleveland Cavaliers (2014-16) |
 Rivka Carmi (1948-) |
Physician | Pres., Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev (May 2006-) (first woman) | |
 Danny Danon (1971-) |
Ramat Gan | Diplomat and Likud Party politician | Israeli permanent envoy to the U.N. (Aug. 14, 2015-) |
 Nitsana Darshan-Leitner |
Petach Tikvah | Atty.-activist. Founder, Shurat HaDin Law Center (2002). | Files a $1B federal lawsuit in New York City in July 2016 against Facebook for facilitating Hamas. |
 Ronald "Ron" Dermer (1971-) |
Miami Beach, Fla. | Diplomat | Israeli ambassador to the U.S. (Sept. 30, 2013-) |
Patrick Drahi (1963-) |
Casablanca, Morocco | Telecomm magnate ($10.3B). Richest person in Israel | Founder, Alice telecom group |
 Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (1951-) |
U.S. Became Israeli citizen in 2002 | Leading Jewish authority on evangelical Christians | Founder, Internat. Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 1983 |
 Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958-) |
Chernivsti, Soviet Union (Ukraine). Emigrated to Israel in 1987 | Yisrael BaAliyah/Likud Party politician | Speaker of the Knesset (2013-) |
 Israeli Gen. Gadi Eizenkot (1960-) |
Tiberias. Jewish Moroccan immigrant parents. | General | IDF chief of gen. staff (Feb. 15, 2015-) |
 Aryeh Eldad (1950-) |
Tel Aviv. Son of Israel Eldad (1910-96) | Physician-Nat. Union Party/Otzma LeYisrael politician | MK (2003-13) |
 Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon (1954-) |
Jerusalem | Moledet/Nat. Union Party politician | MK (1996-9) |
 Gilad Erdan (1970-) |
Ashkelon | Likud Party politician | MK (2003-) |
 Karnit Flug (1955-) |
Poland. Grows up in Israel. | Economist | Gov., Central Bank of Israel (Nov. 2013-) (first woman) |
 Yoav Galant (1958-) |
Jaffa | Maj. General and Kulanu Party politician | Cmdr., Southern Command of the IDF. MK (2015-) |
 Caroline Glick (1969-) |
Chicago, Ill. | Journalist | Deputy managing ed., "The Jerusalem Post". |
 Moshe Halbertal (1958-) |
Uruguay | Philosopher | Prof., Hebrew U. Expert on Maimonides. Co-author of the Israeli Army Code of Ethics |
 Yitzhak "Tzachi" Hanegbi (1957-) |
Jerusalem | Likud Party politician | MK (1988-). Knesset majority leader. Minister without portfolio (2016-) |
 Isaac Herzog (1960-) |
Tel Aviv. Son of Israeli pres. #6 (1983-93) Gen. Chaim Herzog | Labor Party/Zionist Union politician. MK (2003-) | Loyal opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu |
 Tzipi Hotovely (1978-) |
Rehovot | Likud Party politician | Deputy minister of foreign affairs (2015-) |
 Moshe Kahlon (1960-) |
Hadera | Likud MK (2003-) | Founder of the Kulanu Party (Nov. 2014) |
 Yisrael Katz (1955-) |
Ashkelon | Likud Party politician | MK (1998-) |
 Aliza Lavie (1964-) |
Kfar Saba | Feminist and Yesh Atid Party politician | MK (2013-) |
Gideon Levy (1953-) |
Tel Aviv | Leftist journalist | "Twilight Zone: Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation, 1988-2003" (2004), "The Punishment of Gaza" (2010) |
 Avigdor Lieberman (Evet Lvovich Liberman) (1958-) |
Kishinev (Chisinau), Soviet Union (Moldova). Emigrated to Israel in 1978 | Yisrael Beiteinu Party politician | Foreign affairs minister (2009-12, 2013-15) |
 Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni (1958-) |
Tel Aviv | Politician. Most powerful woman in Israel since Golda Meir | Foreign minister (2006-9), designated acting PM (2006-9), leader of the opposition (2009-12) |
 Erel Margalit (1961-) |
Na'an | Labor/Zionist Union Party politician and venture capitalist ($50M) | MK (2013-). Richest MK? |
 Tsega Melaku (1968-) |
Gondar, Ethiopia. Emigrated to Israel in 1984 | Journalist-activist | Dir., Reshet Aleph (Network A) radio station (2008-15) |
 Merav Michaeli (1966-) |
Petah Tikvah | Labor Party/Zionist Union politician and feminist journalist | MK (2013-) |
 Mirim Naor (1947-) |
Jerusalem | Jurist | Justice, Supreme Court of Israel (2003-15). Pres., Supreme Court of Israel (2015-17) |
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (1949-) |
Tel Aviv | Politician, PM #9 of Israel (Mar. 31, 2009-) | |
 Eyal Ofer (1950-) |
Haifa. Son of Sammy Ofer (1922-2011). Brother of Idan Ofer (1955-) | Real estate-shipping magnate ($9.5B>) | Chmn., Zodiac Maritime Lt. |
Idan Ofer (1955-) |
Israel. Son of Sammy Ofer (1922-2011). Brother of Eyal Ofer (1950-). Based in London, England | Shipping-drilling-mining magnate ($4.1B) | Owner, Tank Pacific, Pacific Drilling, Kenon Holdings, and Quantum Pacific Group |
 Sammy (Sami) Ofer (Samuel Herskovich) (1922-2011) |
Galati, Romania. Brother of Yuli Ofer (1924-2011). Emigrated to Haifa in 1924. | Shipping magnate ($10.3B) | |
 Yuli Ofer (Judah Herskovich) (1924-2011) |
Wiszniew, Poland | Statesman-politician | PM #8 of Israel (1977, 1984-6, 1995-6), pres. #9 of Israel (2007-14). 1994 Nobel Peace Prize |
 Michael B. Oren (Michael Scott Bornstein) (1955-) |
New York City. Emigrated to Israel in 1979 | Diplomat-politician-historian | Israeli ambassador to the U.S. (2009-13) |
 Amir (Armand) Peretz (1952-) |
Boujad, Morocco. Emigrated to Israel in 1956 | Labor Party/Zionist Union politician | MK (1988-) |
 Ron Prosor (1958-) |
Kfar Saba | Diplomat-writer | Israeli permanent rep. to the U.N. (2011-15) |
 Miriam "Miri" Regev (1965-) |
Kiryat Gat | Brig. gen., Lidud Party politician (pro-LGBT) | MK (2009-) |
 Reuven "Ruvi" Rivlin (1939-) |
Jerusalem | Likud Party Politician-atty. | Israeli pres. #10 (July 24, 2014-) |
 Elyakim Rubinstein (1947-) |
Tel Aviv | Jurist | Israeli atty. gen. (1997-2004). Vice-pres., Israeli Supreme Court (Jan. 2015-June 2017) |
Shlomo Sand (1946-) |
Linz, Austria | Anti-Israel prof. at the U. of Tel Aviv | The Invention of the Jewish People (2008) |
 Ayelet Shaked (1976-) |
Tel Aviv | Jewish Home Party politician | MK (2013-) |
 Natan Sharansky (1948-) |
Stalino (Donetsk), Soviet Union. Born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky. Emigrated to Israel in 1986. | Likud Party politician-human rights activst | Chmn., Jewish Agency (June 2009-) |
Yitzhak Tshuva (1948-) |
Tripoli, Libya | Hotel-energy magnate ($4.3B) | Owner, New York Plaza Hotel, and the Delek Group |
 Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (Smilansky) (1950-) |
Kiryat Haim | Maj. gen. and Likud Party politician | Chief of Staff, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) (2002-5). Israeli defense minister (2012-16) |
 Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013) |
Baghdad, Iraq. Emigrated to Jerusalem in 1924 | Founder, ultra-Orthodox Shas Party (1984) | Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel (1973-83) |
| Name | Number | Political Party | Term of Office |
David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) |
1 | Mapai | May 14, 1948-Jan. 26, 1954, Nov. 3, 1955-June 26, 1963 |
 Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) |
2 | Mapai | Jan. 26, 1954-Nov. 3, 1955 |
 Levi Eshkol (1895-1969) |
3 | Mapai/Labor | June 26, 1963-Feb. 26, 1969 |
Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
4 | Labor | Mar. 17, 1969-Mar. 10, 1974 |
 Yitzhak Rabin (1922-95) |
5 | Labor | June 3, 1974-June 20, 1977, July 13, 1992-Nov. 4, 1995 |
 Menachem Begin (1913-92) |
6 | Likud | June 20, 1977-Oct. 10, 1983 |
 Yitzhak Shamir (1915-2012) |
7 | Likud | Oct. 10, 1983-Sept. 13, 1984, Oct. 20, 1986-July 13, 1992 |
 Shimon Peres (1923-) |
8 | Likud | Sept. 13, 1984-Oct. 20, 1986, Nov. 22, 1995-June 18, 1996 |
Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-) |
9 | Likud | June 18, 1996-July 6, 1999, Mar. 31, 2009- |
 Ehud Barak (1942-) |
10 | Labor | July 6, 1999-Mar. 7, 2001 |
 Ariel Sharon (1928-2014) |
11 | Likud/Kadima | Mar. 7, 2001-Apr. 14, 2006 |
 Ehud Olmert (1945-) |
12 | Kadima | Apr. 14, 2006-Mar. 31, 2009 |