Tag: Israel 70th Anniversary
Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer has held many important academic, business and policy-making positions at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Citicorp. From 2014 to 2017, he served as vice chair of the U.S. Federal...
Walter Lowdermilk (1888–1974)
How would the State of Israel survive, much less thrive, in a land where water resources were so scarce?
The genius who solved this riddle was Walter Lowdermilk. Raised in the rugged, arid terrain of...
Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis is one of the most outstanding historians of the Middle East. Yet unlike far too many Mideast scholars, Lewis never combined his natural scholarly sympathy for the Arab and Muslim peoples of...
Lone Soldiers
Two great transformations that occurred in the life of the Jewish people with the establishment of Israel are that Jews from around the world can now immigrate to a Jewish state, and that the...
Sanford ‘Zalman’ Bernstein (1926–1999) and Roger Hertog
In 1978, Sanford Bernstein was a brilliant investor leading a high-flying, largely secular New York life. That year his father died, and Bernstein began deeper inquiries into the faith of his parents with the...
Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
President Harry S. Truman will forever be remembered for his fateful decision to recognize the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. That decision came at the most critical of times, when the newly...
Robert Kraft and Myra Hiatt Kraft (1942–2011)
On Nov. 23, 2015, the New England Patriots observed a moment of silence before kicking off their game against the Buffalo Bills in memory of Ezra Schwartz, an American yeshivah student who was murdered in a...
Nathan (1848–1931) and Lina Straus (1849–1912)
Born to a Jewish family in Bavaria in 1848, Nathan Straus, along with his brother, Isidor, sold products to Macy’s department store, eventually becoming co-owners of the famed retail institution in Manhattan. Deeply committed...
Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz first traveled to Israel in 1950, when he was 20 years old. He visited a cousin who decided to pay tribute to his relative from America by saving up two eggs and...
Crown Family
“Support Israel in every way you possibly can. Get people to understand Israel’s tremendous contributions to humanity,” said Lester Crown in a 2015 interview.
In outlining his devotion to Israel, Crown was not merely expressing...