50 Influential Jews 2017
He left Kazakhstan for a brighter future in Israel
“My dream is to be an engineer, work in my field in an exciting company that is bringing positive change to this world, and start a family. Israel is where my present and future come together.”
22. Roman Abramovich
1. Avichai Mandelblit
2. Benjamin Netanyahu
#6 Esther Hayut - The Supreme Court president in the hot seat
After years as a mostly quiet back-bencher, Hayut emerged in a more aggressive role, using biting sarcasm and cutting off lawyers left and right.
#47 Yehoshua Fass - The rabbi making the Zionist dream possible
Together with Tony Gelbart, Fass has helped olim actualize what Natan Sharansky has called the “aliya of choice.”
#35 Rebecca Vilkomerson - Leads the Jewish Voice for Peace
The BDS Jewish firebrand triggered anxiety in mainstream American Jewish circles with a 2016 Washington Post opinion article titled “I’m Jewish and I want people to boycott Israel.”
#28 Howard Kohr - Rebuilding AIPAC's bipartisan reputation
Kohr's mission has been to rebuild AIPAC's ties with the Democratic Party and its reputation as a bipartisan force – the very foundation of support on which the lobby is based.
#46 Irina Nevzlin - Altering traditional paradigms of Jewish life
The daughter of billionaire Leonid Nevzlin who saved the Jewish People's museum from collapse, now charged with its evolution.
#27 David Grossman - Bringing Hebrew literature to the world
The world-famous Hebrew man of letters that brings Israeli reality to the center of the stage.
#45 Dr. Kira Radinsky - Hi-tech’s young pioneer
One such activity is Kira Radinsky position at the Technion, where she uses artificial intelligence technology with a special focus on the medical field.
#26 Lea Goldin - A mother’s struggle
Lea Goldin insists that there is a lot that the government can do and is not doing in order to bring Hadar and Shaul’s bodies back to Israel for a proper burial.
#4 Steven Mnuchin - Skyrocketing to the top
Mnuchin was one of the president’s most “troublesome” cabinet appointees for Democrats, who were concerned with the banker’s role at Goldman Sachs.
#44 Dorit Rabinyan - The novelist who hit a nerve
Israel’s Education Ministry, headed by Naftali Bennett, targeted her novel in response to high school teachers who began including it on their lists of required reading.