Influential jews
No. 1: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Remembering who brought the hostages home
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump helped achieve what few in Jerusalem thought possible, bringing every Israeli hostage home and reshaping the Middle East.
No. 2: Benjamin Netanyahu: Shaping Israel’s politics and global image for a generation
No. 3: Gadi Eisenkot: Israel’s next prime minister?
No. 4: Naftali Bennett: The former PM seeking a comeback to ‘repair Israel’
No. 19: Jerry Seinfeld, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Steven Spielberg: Hollywood heavyweights
While a worldwide wave of antisemitism has been growing, some high-profile Hollywood Jews have continued to speak up in support of Israel, and at other times, have let their actions do the talking.
No. 20: Alex Karp and Josh Kushner: From AI battlefields to billion-dollar deals
They both fight in a field most people don’t have access to: inside directors’ boards, where getting the facts straight can mean the difference between an investment and a boycott.
No. 21: Volodymyr Zelensky: The Jewish president who became the face of Ukraine’s resistance
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion, an estimated 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died, at least 16,874 Ukrainian civilians have been killed.
No. 22: David Zini and Eyal Zamir: Commanding Israel’s security through war and turmoil
Israel’s top security chiefs wield enormous influence as they navigate war, terror, political pressure, and a rapidly changing security landscape.
No. 23: Josh Shapiro: A rising Democratic heavyweight putting his Jewish identity front and center
Rather than retreat from public expressions of his Judaism, Josh Shapiro has moved in the opposite direction.
No. 24: Gali Baharav-Miara, Isaac Amit, and Noam Sohlberg: Public faces of Israel’s justice system
Baharav-Miara was the government’s internal legal constraint; Amit, the judiciary’s institutional defender; Sohlberg, a conservative jurist placed at the center of political and social disputes.
No. 25: Claudia Sheinbaum: Mexico’s first woman president, governing on her own terms
Before entering politics, Sheinbaum was a climate scientist who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
No. 26: Dario and Daniela Amodei: The Jewish siblings shaping AI’s next frontier
Born and raised in San Francisco to Jewish mother Elena Engel and Italian father Riccardo Amodei, the siblings took different routes to the same project.
No. 28: Rabbis Sholom Duchman, Dov Landau, Ephraim Mirvis, Rick Jacobs, and Mendy Kotlarsky
Five rabbis shaping Jewish life, leadership and identity around the world.
No. 29: Ofer Yannay: A leader in renewable energy and innovation
Yannay is the owner of Hapoel Galil Elyon and Hapoel Tel Aviv BC.