Influential jews

TIME names Netanyahu among 2026 Most Influential, calls his post-Oct. 7 comeback bigger than Trump

TIME editor-at-large Ian Bremmer wrote that the PM "once faced the political wasteland" after Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, but has now engineered a "political comeback" that "may have exceeded Trump's."

 Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu
18 notable Jews who died in 2025.

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 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


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.

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A Zionist at the United Nations

Sitting down with UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, an outspoken Israel advocate in an often unfriendly and biased environment, who has the eyes of the world upon him.

Hillel Neuer takes in a sweeping view of Jerusalem from the East Talpiot promenade

Israel’s legendary spy Sylvia Raphael returns to the spotlight

Sylvia goes to Cannes – in a documentary about her life.

Ace Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael strikes a pose in her apartment in Paris in the Seventies

Grapevine: Shagrir’s career

Shagrir, in a career that spanned just over a half a century, was one of the central figures of Israel’s film and television industries.

Micha Shagrir

His life in media

Sitting down with multi-talented octogenarian Larry Frisch, who in just one twist in his long and colorful history, was assistant director of seminal film "Exodus."

Larry Frisch in his book-lined apartment, in a retirement home adjacent to the Islamic Museum

Keeping the moneyball in her court

Visiting Tel Aviv as part of a UNICEF delegation, Jamie McCourt opens up.

Jamie McCourt

Lonely journalist of faith

Veteran NBC reporter David Gregory takes on an unlikely topic in his first book: Spirituality.

David Gregory interviews former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in 2010

Jewish organizations call on Samsung to denounce accusations of Jewish cabal blocking deal

“Anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money have a long and dark history, sowing distrust and other negative feelings towards Jews,” says ADL National Director.

Samsung devices.

Netanyahu announces ‘roundtable dialogue' between non-Orthodox and government

Natan Sharansky, Jewish Agency head, and dialogue chairman hails decision as way for non-Orthodox to advance projects and lobby for their interests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday

Center Field: Celebrating truly influential Jews — mentors who shaped us

When first invited to help select the 50 most influential Jews, the phrase “influential Jews” unnerved me.

An Orthodox Jewish worshipper prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City