Influential jews

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.

18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
An illustrative image of people worshiping a smartphone on an altar, made by AI.

Birken bags don't build a nation: Era of Jewish influencers is a sickness, not strategy - opinion

 Uzi Bitan, CEO of Meuhedet Health Fund

Treatment Under Fire

 Emily Austin

25 ViZionaries: Emily Austin - No. 20


The Jerusalem Post's 50 most influential Jews

A list of influential Jewish figures who have impacted the world last year, and have the potential to affect change in years to come.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Order in chaos: Chaim Soutine French Russian Painter

Atar was so smitten with Soutine’s works that on his return to his kibbutz, Ein Harod, in pre-state Israel in 1937, he initiated a building that was to become the Mishkan Museum of Art

Order in chaos: Chaim Soutine  at Ein Harod

A conversation with novelist Norman Lebrecht

He is the author of a new book on modern Jewish history during the century before the establishment of the State of Israel, Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947.

Lebrecht in the Galilee, December 2019

Lebrecht's book shares stories of Jews who changed the world

In his book "Genius and Anxiety", Norman Lebrecht shares the stories of Jews whose lives and achievements have made a difference to the world between 1894 and 1947.

The Jewish genius

Celebrating 25 years of Azerbaijan-Israel Relations

The Jerusalem Post

Project Ten 'Be the Change'

‘Seventy percent of the volunteers’ time is used for the actual work, and 30% is spent learning Jewish values and understanding why it is important for Jews to be involved in this work.’

Jewish volunteers from all over the world help create sustainable projects in developing countries

Legendary Mahal pilot dies at 92

Roger Nathan ‘Gino’ Narboni flew in the French, US and Israeli air forces throughout his storied career.

CPT. ROGER NATHAN ‘Gino’ Narboni as a young pilot. ‘I had a skill that Israel could use, so I decided to use it.’

On the 50th anniversary of Agnon’s Nobel Prize

Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, a publisher and fan of Agnon’s work, reflects on the impact of the Hebrew literary leader.

Agnon's library and working room

Philanthropist in high spirits

For American-Jewish businessman Leon Falic, investing in Israel is just good sense.

Leon Falic

Six Israeli professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of America’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers.

TAMAR FLASH.