Pioneering female television anchor of "Today," "The View," "20/20" and "ABC Evening News,"
Barbara Walters (family name Abrahams) turns 91 today...
FRIDAY: Rabbi in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda turns 82... Member of the UK's House of Lords, Baroness
Vivien Helen Stern turns 79... Former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and France,
Yehuda Lancry turns 73...
Dvora Millstone turns 72... Israeli television host and singer,
Yardena Arazi turns 69... Former member of Knesset for Yesh Atid,
Ruth Calderon turns 59... Founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce,
Marc Russell Benioff turns 56... CEO of Reston, Virginia-based Information Experts,
Marissa Levin turns 53... Co-creator of the award-winning HBO series "Game of Thrones,"
David Benioff turns 50... Son and grandson of leading British rabbis, he has led congregations in London and Moscow and is presently the senior rabbi at the Beverly Hills Synagogue, Rabbi
Pinchas Eliezer "Pini" Dunner turns 50... White House correspondent for NPR,
Tamara Keith turns 41... Member of the California State Assembly since 2018,
Jesse Gabriel turns 39... Milwaukee-born member of the Wisconsin State Assembly,
Jonathan Brostoff turns 37... Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council,
Carmiel Arbit turns 37... Senior reporter at
New York magazine and its culture magazine
Vulture,
Lila Shapiro turns 37...Media center director at the Democratic National Committee,
Mitchell Israel Malasky turns 35... Law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
Daniel Yadron turns 33... Yanky Rodman turns 29... Co-founder and national director of IPF Atid,
Adam Basciano... Regional director at the Israel on Campus Coalition,
Destiny Albritton...
SATURDAY: Vice chairman and a director of Capital International, Inc. and long-time board chair (now emeritus) of the Hudson Institute,
Walter Phillips Stern turns 92... Actor best known as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" appearing in Dos Equis beer commercials,
Jonathan Goldsmith turns 82... Edward Karesky turns 73... CEO of the Israel Longhorn Project, dedicated to bringing Texas Longhorn cattle to Israel,
Robin Rosenblatt turns 72... Five Towns (N.Y.) resident, Barry Mandel turns 72... Former chairman and CEO of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom,
Patrick Kron turns 67... Former senior political adviser to President Bill Clinton during his second term,
Doug Sosnik turns 64... Teaneck resident with a Jersey City dental practice,
Paul Lustiger, DDS turns 64... Historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,
Robert Kagan turns 62... Google's VP of government affairs and public policy for the U.S. and Canada,
Mark Isakowitz turns 54... Head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team,
Josh Pastner turns 43... Founder of a NYC-based PR firm,
Risa Beth Heller turns 41... NYC-based senior editor of global digital video programming at Bloomberg LP,
Henry Seltzer turns 35... Assistant director of policy and government affairs at AIPAC,
Joshua Nason turns 35... Director of development at the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation,
Alec Deer...
SUNDAY: Former Director of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate, member of Knesset and Israel's ambassador to the Philippines, Major General (retired)
Yehoshua Sagi turns 87... Pioneer in the commercial real estate industry,
Sam Zell (born Shmuel Zielonka) turns 79... Co-founder of The Home Depot and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons,
Arthur Blank turns 78... Of counsel, antitrust and business litigator at the Locke Lord law firm,
Stephen J. Landes turns 75... Board member of the Milken Family Foundation,
Ellen Sandler turns 71... Longtime Washington correspondent,
Dan Raviv turns 66... Former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (2004-2017),
Jeffrey M. Lacker turns 65... President of public relations at Barbour, Griffith & Rogers,
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum turns 64... Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives,
Frank Hornstein turns 61... Comedian and author,
Marc Maron turns 57... Member of the House of Representatives since 2005,
Debbie Wasserman Schultz turns 54... Publisher and editor-in-chief at
Dallas Jewish Monthly,
Judy Tashbook-Safern turns 54... President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Broward County (Florida),
Michael Balaban turns 54... President of The Center for Peace Communications
Joseph Braude turns 46... Former state treasurer of Ohio,
Josh Mandel turns 43... Architect, entrepreneur and author,
Marc Kushner turns 43... Executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis,
Rori Picker Neiss turns 35... Senior consultant at Deloitte,
Alexa Wertman Brown turns 30...
MONDAY: International Emmy award-winning Scottish television producer who also served as general director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir
Jeremy Israel Isaacs turns 88... Swiss-born former governor of Vermont, the first Jewish woman elected to govern any state, she was also the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland in the late 90s,
Madeleine May Kunin turns 87... Physician and theoretical biologist, he was a 1987 MacArthur Fellow,
Stuart Kauffman turns 81... Former president of Warner Home Video,
Warren Lieberfarb turns 77... French businessman,
Alain Wertheimer turns 72... Real estate agent in New York's Hudson Valley,
Jerry Weiss turns 66... Teaneck, N.J.-based real estate attorney,
Gary E. Miller turns 64... Pediatrician and author of the book "Winning A Debate with An Israel Hater," Dr.
Michael Harris turns 62... Bestselling author and magazine journalist,
Ben Greenman turns 51... Regional political director of the Southern Pacific Region for AIPAC,
Elliott Nahmias turns 49... Winner of four Olympic gold medals for Team USA in swimming in 2000 and 2004,
Leonid "Lenny" Krayzelburg turns 45... News editor at
Voice of America,
Michael Lipin turns 43... Senior vice president at the Katz Watson Group,
Lauren France turns 34... Marketing manager at the Anti-Defamation League,
Samantha Collidge turns 33... High school math teacher in the Miami-Dade County public schools,
Hadassa Levenson turns 31... Chief of staff at Tel Aviv-based iAngels,
Ayelet Cohen turns 28...