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. 30: Roman Gofman: A new Mossad chief for a changing confrontation with Iran
With Iran as his focus, Gofman is poised to reshape the Mossad’s role in Israel’s security strategy.
No. 31: Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart: Turning aliyah into a force for strengthening Israel
Nefesh B’Nefesh founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart have helped turn aliyah into a force for strengthening Israel
No. 32: Amir Yaron and Michal Abadi-Boiangiu: Economic policymakers leading Israel toward recovery
Yaron has guided Israel’s economy through the upheaval of the war and into recovery, while Abadi-Boiangiu sits at a key chokepoint in how the state spends its money.
No. 35: Yoav Turgeman, Bezalel Machlis, and Inbal Kreiss: Powering Israel’s defense revolution
Machlis is the president and CEO of Elbit • Kreiss is one of the most prominent people in Israel’s defense and space industries • Turgeman spent over 40 years shaping Israel’s defense capabilities
Abuse festers in a community that keeps it covered - opinion
He offends because he’s judged, correctly, that the community will protect its reputation before the girl in front of him.
TIME names Netanyahu among 2026 Most Influential, calls his post-Oct. 7 comeback bigger than Trump
TIME editor-at-large Ian Bremmer wrote that the PM "once faced the political wasteland" after Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, but has now engineered a "political comeback" that "may have exceeded Trump's."
Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025
Despite its grief, the Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to film, architecture, politics, and Jewish scholarship.
Birken bags don't build a nation: Era of Jewish influencers is a sickness, not strategy - opinion
Jewish organizations are pouring millions into Instagram vanity projects, elevating the shallowest voices of our people. This betrays everything Zionism stands for.
Treatment Under Fire
25 ViZionaries: Emily Austin - No. 20
Advocates against antisemitism and supports Israel.
