Top 50 Most Influential Jews 2026
Meet The Jerusalem Post's 50 Most Influential Jews of 2026
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump take the No. 1 spot. Discover who else made The Jerusalem Post's 50 Most Influential Jews of 2026.
No. 1: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Remembering who brought the hostages home
No. 2: Benjamin Netanyahu: Shaping Israel’s politics and global image for a generation
No. 3: Gadi Eisenkot: Israel’s next prime minister?
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. 27: Israel Ganz and Erez Winner: Advocates shaping Israel’s case for sovereignty and resilience
From West Bank sovereignty to national security, Ganz and Winner are shaping Israel’s political and defense agenda.
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.
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. 33: Boaz Levy: Engineering Israel’s defense future
As one of the country’s leading aerospace engineers, Levy’s work has been central to the development of the Arrow missile-defense system that today protects Israel from long-range threats.
