THE JERUSALEM POST’S

50 Most Influential Jews of 2020

The Jerusalem Post is proud to present its 2020 list of the 50 Most Influential Jews.

Many people influence the world we live in and impact our daily lives.

This year, we strived to create a list showcasing the diversity of the Jewish nation

while highlighting people from all walks of life – government, art, medicine, literature and science.

1 Jared Kushner, David Friedman, Avi Berkowitz, Yossi Cohen and Ron Dermer

2 Alexander Gintsburg, Shmuel Shapira and Tal Zaks

3 Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz

4 Liat Ben Ari and Rivkah Feldman

5 Sophie Wilmes

6 Douglass Emhoff

7 Morgan Ortagus

8 Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid

9 Ronald Lauder

10 Jacky Rosen

11 Reuven Rivlin

12 Yuli Edelstein, Ronni Gamzu, Zeev Rotstein and Shuki Shemer

13 Senaia Netanyahu and Dorit Nitzan

14 Dominic Raab

15 Gabi Ashkenazi

16 Bujie Herzog, Amir Peretz and Miriam Peretz

17 Esther Hayut and Avichai Mandelblit

18 Gilad Erdan

19 Dana Walden

20 Tony Blinken, Dan Shapiro and Aaron Keyak

21 Paul Packer and Aryeh Lightstone

22 Shira Haas and Niv Sultan

23 Meredith Jacobs & Sheila Katz

24 Yitshak Kreiss

25 Sylvan Adams

26 Pnina Tamano-Shata and Omer Yankelevich

27 Avigdor Liberman, Gideon Saar and Yifat Shasha-Biton

28 Elaine Luria and Lee Zeldin

29 Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Hauser

30 Stosh Cotler

31 Erlich Sisters

32 Danny Atar

33 Amikam Norkin

34 Betsy Berns Korn

35 Capt. S

36 William Daroff and Russell Robinson

37 Roman Abramovich and Natan Sharansky

38 Inna Braverman, Maya Gura, Hillary Harel and Orit Hashay

39 Rabbis Gershon Edelstein and Chaim Kanievsky

40 Yael Eckstein

41 Shir Cohen and Brit Perets

42 Tal Gan-Zvi, Shalom Shlomo and Moshe Klughaft

43 Jordana Cutler

44 Liliana Segre

45 Rivka Kidron

46 Oded Revivi and Yossi Dagan

47 Jonathan Swan and Bari Weiss

48 Shuly Rubin Schwartz

49 Yaakov Hagoel

50 Deni Avdija

https://www.jpost.com/50-most-influential-jews

Schumer: Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat should be filled by next president

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Friday night that the Senate should wait until next year to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president," Schumer said in a tweet.

Schumer's tweet comes less than an hour after news broke that Ginsburg had died on Friday at 87, throwing a landmine into an already chaotic presidential election year.

Schumer's tweet is a word-for-word copy of a statement that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released in 2016 after the election-year death of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

It also points to the looming battle over whether or not Senate Republicans will try to fill the seat in an election year, after leaving Scalia's seat open until 2017 when President Trump appointed and the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch.

McConnell, who is up for reelection, has vowed that he will try to fill an open seat. His office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about Ginsburg's passing.

"If you're asking me a hypothetical … we would fill it," McConnell told Fox News in February.

But a handful of Republicans have been non-committal about if they would support filing an election-year vacancy, though they will likely face intense pressure from conservative activists and their own colleagues to do so. With a 53-47 majority, McConnell could lose three GOP senators and still let Vice President Pence break a tie.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/517167-schumer-ruth-bader-ginsburg-seat-should-be-filled-by-next-president

White House announces an $13 billion aid package for Puerto Rico three years after Hurricane Maria but days after Joe Biden courts Puerto Rican voters in Florida

President Donald Trump announced an $13 billion aid package for Puerto Rico

It will help the island recover from the 2017 Hurricane Maria

It also comes at a time Trump is courting Hispanic voters

Both Trump and Joe Biden are heavily campaigning for the voting bloc

Biden campaigned in Florida on Tuesday, talking with Puerto Rican voters

President Donald Trump announced an $13 billion aid package for Puerto Rico on Friday to help the island recover from the devastation brought by 2017's Hurricane Maria, coming at a time he is courting Hispanic voters for his re-election bid.

The money will focus on the island's electrical grid system and to help the recovery of its education system.

'These grants exceed the total Public Assistance funding in any single federally-declared disaster other than Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy,' White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.

The announcement comes less than two months before the November election, when both candidates are fighting to win Florida, a critical state with a large number of Puerto Rican voters.

Joe Biden was in the state on Tuesday to court that voting bloc.

Biden said Trump 'has done nothing but assault the dignity of Hispanic families' in a speech in Kissimmee, where many people settled after fleeing Maria's devastation.

Kissimmee, a city outside Orlando, is the center of the state's Puerto Rican vote.

Trump is also wooing Hispanic voters and has bragged how he is doing better among them than Biden.

Polls have shown he has an edge over his Democratic rival in that voting bloc.

Puerto Rico was already struggling financially before Maria made landfall three years ago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8747905/White-House-announce-11-6-bln-aid-Puerto-Rico-Fox-News.html