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Hoenlein is widely seen as a Republican sympathiser though he has not stated this publically, nor does his name appear on any list of party donors.<ref>Allison Hoffman, [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/33176/king-without-a-crown?utm_source=TabletMagazineList&utm_campaign=3c789af740-5_10_2010&utm_medium=email King Without A Crown], Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012</ref> But at 2009 meeting with President Obama, he was seen as one of the most hostile among a group of Jewish leaders.<ref>Sheryl Gay Stolberg, [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/obama-moves-to-assuage-jewish-leaders/ Obama Moves to Assuage Jewish Leaders], New York Times, accessed 18 July 2012</ref>
 
Hoenlein is widely seen as a Republican sympathiser though he has not stated this publically, nor does his name appear on any list of party donors.<ref>Allison Hoffman, [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/33176/king-without-a-crown?utm_source=TabletMagazineList&utm_campaign=3c789af740-5_10_2010&utm_medium=email King Without A Crown], Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012</ref> But at 2009 meeting with President Obama, he was seen as one of the most hostile among a group of Jewish leaders.<ref>Sheryl Gay Stolberg, [http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/obama-moves-to-assuage-jewish-leaders/ Obama Moves to Assuage Jewish Leaders], New York Times, accessed 18 July 2012</ref>
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He has said that he was 'intellectually sympathetic' with [[Meir Kahane]], founder of the extreme-right [[Jewish Defense League]], 'when he started'.<ref>Allison Hoffman, [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/33176/king-without-a-crown?utm_source=TabletMagazineList&utm_campaign=3c789af740-5_10_2010&utm_medium=email King Without A Crown], Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012</ref>
  
 
==Attendance at Herzliya Conference==
 
==Attendance at Herzliya Conference==

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Malcolm I. Hoenlein has been the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986.

According to Allison Hoffman, he has been described as 'one of the most powerful people, politically, in the United States' and as having 'the greatest Rolodex in the world'.[1]

Views

Hoenlein is widely seen as a Republican sympathiser though he has not stated this publically, nor does his name appear on any list of party donors.[2] But at 2009 meeting with President Obama, he was seen as one of the most hostile among a group of Jewish leaders.[3]

He has said that he was 'intellectually sympathetic' with Meir Kahane, founder of the extreme-right Jewish Defense League, 'when he started'.[4]

Attendance at Herzliya Conference

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Hoenlein has spoken several times at the Herzliya Conference, a major security conference held annually in Israel:

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Notes

  1. Allison Hoffman, King Without A Crown, Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012
  2. Allison Hoffman, King Without A Crown, Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012
  3. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Obama Moves to Assuage Jewish Leaders, New York Times, accessed 18 July 2012
  4. Allison Hoffman, King Without A Crown, Tablet, accessed 18 July 2012
  5. Program, The 6th Conference, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 6 June 2012.
  6. The 7th Conference - 2007, herzliyaconference.org, 23 May 2012.
  7. The 10th Annual Herzliya Conference, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 25 February 20201.
  8. Herzliya2011 Preliminary Programme, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 14 October 2011.
  9. The Twelfth Annual Herzliya Conference, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 1 June 2012.
  10. Malcolm I. Hoenlein Biography, Conference of Presidents, accessed 3 July 2012