Algemeiner Staff
ARTICLES BY: Algemeiner Staff
Jewish 100, 2015: Mauricio Macri – Government
Mauricio Macri President of Argentina South American Jewry breathed a collective sigh of relief with the election of the pragmatic Mauricio Macri as president of Argentina. With...
Jewish 100, 2015: Manuel Valls – Government
Manuel Valls Prime Minister of France French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, one of Europe’s most vocal advocates for the Jewish community, has made it clear that the...
Jewish 100, 2015: Gadi Eizenkot – Government
Gadi Eizenkot IDF Chief of Staff “Tense and challenging.” That’s how Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, the new chief of staff for the Israel Defense Forces, characterized this period...
Jewish 100, 2015: Chuck Schumer – Government
Chuck Schumer US Senator Days after Senator Chuck Schumer of New York voiced his opposition to the U.S.-backed nuclear deal with Iran, he faced accusations that went...
Jewish 100, 2015: Benjamin Netanyahu – Government
Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel As the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu grapples with the toughest issues of the day. As the democratically elected leader...
Jewish 100, 2015: Alexis Tsipras – Government
Alexis Tsipras President of Greece When Alexis Tsipras became president of Greece, many Israelis viewed his pro-Palestinian Syriza party skeptically at best. Yet since then, Tsipras has...
Jewish 100, 2015: Laurie Cardoza-Moore – Innovation and Activism
Laurie Cardoza-Moore President of PJTN The Christian Zionist organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) convened a special session at the United Nations in August 2015 to help Christians...
Jewish 100. 2015: Marta Weinstock-Rosin – Innovation and Activism
Marta Weinstock-Rosin Medical researcher Another honoree at the 2015 ceremony on Mount Herzl for Israel’s Independence Day was Marta Weinstock-Rosin, the Israeli inventor of Exelon, a drug...
Jewish 100, 2015: Abdul Fatah el-Sisi – Government
Abdul Fatah el-Sisi President of Egypt It may seem unusual for Israeli leaders, whose nation historically shares a “cold peace” with its western Arab neighbor, to praise...
Jewish 100, 2015: Zvi Waldman – Innovation and Activism
Zvi Waldman Director of Yad Ezrah Jerusalem’s Yad Ezrah stands out among organizations that offer poverty relief, providing assistance in a respectful, dignified manner. Under the direction...
Jewish 100, 2015: Yosi Druker – Innovation and Activism
Yosi Druker Executive Vice President of Rafael Yosi Druker, who led the team that developed Iron Dome, the lifesaving system which has defended Israel from thousands of...
Jewish 100, 2015: Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky – Innovation and Activism
Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky Supreme Court petitioner The U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 struck down as unconstitutional a congressional attempt to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list...
Jewish 100, 2015: Meyer Seewald – Innovation and Activism
Meyer Seewald Founder of Jewish Community Watch Meyer Seewald is the founder of Jewish Community Watch, an organization dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse within...
Jewish 100, 2015: George Weidenfeld – Innovation and Activism
Lord George Weidenfeld Philanthropist The British-Jewish publisher and philanthropist George Weidenfeld, known for recently funding the rescue of Syrian and Iraqi Christians threatened by the Islamic State...
