Algemeiner Staff
ARTICLES BY: Algemeiner Staff
Jewish 100: Yossi Vardi – Business
Yossi Vardi Tech Visionary, Mirabilis, Kinnernet Considered by some to be the godfather of Israeli tech, Vardi was a major investor in Mirabilis, which was developed by...
Jewish 100: Warren Buffett – Business
Warren Buffett Investor, Berkshire Hathaway The famed billionaire investor has been a strong supporter of Israeli innovation, and has bought into it significantly. His Berkshire Hathaway...
Jewish 100: Steven Spielberg – Arts
Steven Spielberg Film Director/Producer The acclaimed film director created the Shoah Foundation in 1994 following the release of his film Schindler's List. The role of the...
Jewish 100: Matisyahu Miller – Arts
Matisyahu Miller Musician At one point, the most identifiable Chassidic Jew on the planet, Matisyahu has become a bit more inconspicuous since his beard was shaved in...
Jewish 100: Noam Gershony – Arts
Noam Gershony Israeli soldier and Para-Olympian The 29-year-old Gershony nearly died after his helicopter crashed during the 2006 Lebanon War. He survived, but having lost the use...
Jewish 100: Leonard Cohen – Arts
Leonard Cohen Musician "The poet laureate of pessimism," as some refer to him, has been churning out hit songs since the 1960s. A descendant of a long...
Jewish 100: Alex Clare – Arts
Alex Clare Musician Clare is on the verge of becoming a global pop superstar and can already make the claim for supremacy in his native Britain, where...
Jewish 100: Hagit Messer Yaron – Academia
Hagit Messer Yaron President, The Open University of Israel Almost fifty thousand students study at The Open University of Israel, more than any of Israel's other seven...
Jewish 100: Robert Wistrich – Academia
Photo: Hebrew University. Robert Wistrich Anti-Semitism Scholar This academic is considered a leading scholar of the history of anti-Semitism and in 2012 published his...
Jewish 100: Eli Beer – Innovation
Eli Beer Founder, United Hatzalah of Israel A longtime medical volunteer, in 2006, following the Second Lebanon War, Beer helped establish United Hatzalah,...
Jewish 100: Ruth Wisse – Academia
Ruth Wisse Harvard professor In a profession loaded with anti-Israel agitators, Wisse has remained a steadfast defender of the Jewish state. Whether it be in the...
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Offers Independence Day Greetings (VIDEO)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent his Independence Day crooning with Israeli pop star Idan Amedi at the "Independence Songs" ceremony at the President's Residence....
Boston Marathon Blasts: Doctor Credits Israelis With Helping Set Up Disaster Team (VIDEO)
Hours following a pair of blasts at the Boston Marathon that left 2 dead and up to 100 wounded according to reports, a chief doctor at the...
Bar Refaeli’s Instagram Account Becomes Forum for Debate, Again
Once again a social media account belonging to Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has become a forum for debate. Refaeli posted a photo to her Instagram account,...
