Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
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Founded in the United States in 1981, Friends of the Israel Defence forces (FIDF), is an American non-profit organisation devoted to providing various forms of support to Israeli soldiers. Its headquarters is based in New York. The organisation provides the following description of its activities on its webpage: [1]
- FIDF initiates and helps support educational, social, cultural and r:ecreational programs and facilities for the young men and women soldiers of Israel who defend the Jewish homeland. FIDF also supports the families of fallen soldiers.
People
National Director and CEO - Maj. Gen (Res.) Yitzhak (Jerry) Gershon
Chief Executive Officer - Mr. Alan E. Scholnick
Chief Financial Officer - Ron Aloni
Director of Operations and Special Events - Michael Sever
National Board Members:
- Nily Falic - Chairman *
- Arthur Stark - Chairman Emeritus *
- Larry J. Hochberg - Chairman Emeritus *
- Marvin Josephson - Chairman Emeritus
- Marc Jason - Vice Presidents *
- Dr. Michael Kalisman - Vice Presidents *
- Morris Silverman - Secretary *
- Stephen Wayne Rubin, Esq - Legal Counsel *
- Ricki Alon
- Harvey Axelrod
- Gary Balter
- Sammy Bar-Or
- Ronny Ben-Josef
- Scott Black
- Alan Brody
- Robert Cohen
- Ruth & Leo David
- Oscar Feldenkreis
- Tony Felzen
- William Fox
- Al Frank
- Pat Frank
- Martin E. Franklin
- Erika Glazer
- Fred Gluckman *
- Harry Gross *
- Daniel J. Hyman
- Jerry Kaplan
- Dr. Shmuel Katz
- Shari Kaufman
- Alon Kaufman
- Jared Kushner
- Richard Kwal
- Avi Lerner
- Israel Levy
- Nathan Lewinger
- Dr. Herbert London
- Nicole Lowenstein
- Gerald Mizel
- Sam Moshe
- Michael Nachman
- Jorde Nathan
- Soraya Nazarian
- Younes Nazarian
- Ann Newman
- Melinda Lowell Paltrow
- Marc Perlman
- Robert Polak
- Peter Reisman
- Israel Roizman
- Tony Rubin
- Haim Saban *
- Monica Sasson
- Steve Schultz
- Robin Selati
- Benny Shabtai
- Fela Shapell
- David Shapell
- Gary Shiffman
- Dr. Robert Shillman
- Joseph Sieber
- Ron Simms
- Norman Smith
- Garry Sobel
- Lloyd Sokoloff
- Rabbi Peter Weintraub
- Zev Weiss
- Michael Werner
- Dr. Phillip Werthman
- David Wiener
- Shahram Yaghoubzadeh
- Ofer Yardeni
- Robert Zarnegin
- Arie Zweig
- National Executive Committee Member[2]
Funding and finances
In 2012 the total assets of the organisation amounted to $126,649,916[3]
Notes
- ↑ 'About FIDF', "Friends of the Israel Defence Forces Website", accessed 17 September 2014
- ↑ 'Our Board', "Friends of the Israel Defence Forces Website", accessed 17 September 2014
- ↑ Friends of the Israel Defence Forces Financial Statements and Auditor's Report December 31 2012, accessed 17 September 2014
