Talk:List of Venezuelan Jews

This article should be called List of Venezuelan Jews -- someone should move it. --WassermannNYC 08:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind; I figured out how to move pages, so it's done. --WassermannNYC 04:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Venezualan Jews

Politicians

• Ivonne Attas, actress very famous in the 70s, and former mayor of the Baruta Municipality, in Caracas)

• Shully Rosenthal, member of the Chacao Municipality Council for Primero Justicia

• Ruth de Krivoy, former president of Banco Central de Venezuela (Central Bank)

• Lolita Aniyar de Castro, ex member of parliament for Democratic Action and former governor of the state of Zulia

• Paulina Gamus de Almosny, ex member of parliament for Democratic Action

• Sofía Imber, journalist and former director of the Museum of Modern Art

• Teodoro Petkoff Malec, journalist, founder of Movement toward Socialism (MAS) and founder and editor of the newspaper Tal Cual

• Ricardo Hausmann, former Minister of CORDIPLAN (ministry of planning) and well-known economist

• Senta Essenfeld de Breuer, former Minister for the Family

• Esther de Margulis, former president of FOGADE

• Ruth Lerner de Almea, former Minister of Education and ex-ambassador to the UNESCO

• Moisés Naím, former Minister of Trade and Commerce and current editor of the magazine Foreign Policy

• Henrique Capriles Radonsky, current Mayor (2000-2008)

(Primero Justicia) of the Baruta Municipality, in Caracas.

Writers

• Alicia Freilich, author
• Isaac Chocrón, novelist
• Samuel Akinín Levy, author of several poems and novels

Celebrities

• Gabriela Benhamú, model

• Rosalinda Serfaty Rosenstock, actress

• Menachem Belilty, comedian

• Amador Bendayán, Comedian Actor and Show Host (11 November 1920 - 1989)

• Jonathan Jakubowicz, movie director (Secuestro express, the best-selling Venezuelan movie of all times; Distance)

Sport Stars

• Maurice Ruah, tennis player

• Danny Chocrón, open water swimming world champion

Elia K.Schneider the most awarded woman film director of Venezuela

Singers & Musicians

• Ilan Chester (born Ilan Czentochowski), singer and composer

• Karina, pop-ballade singer

• Caro Belilty, pop rock singer and song writer

Physicians

• Sara Bendahan, the first woman in Venezuela to become a doctor

• Lía Imber de Coronil, the first woman in Venezuela that became a doctor

• Baruj Benacerraf, Nobel Prize of Medicine (Venezuelan-born)

• Elías Benarroch, researcher who discovered the anopheles mosquito as a transmitter of malaria

• Martín Mayer, founder of Instituto de Medicina Tropical

Business Entrepreneurs

• Salomón Cohen Levy, founder of Grupo Sambil

• Ivan Lansberg Henriquez, noted businessman (Insurance), University Professor and humanist (deceased Sept 20, 2006).

Other

• Klara Ostfeld, author of several cook books

• Juana Sujo (born Juana Sujokovich), playwright, drama teacher and actress

• Offer Zaks, Israeli-born modern dancer (bio in Spanish)

• Moisés Kaufman, playwright and media director

• Elia Schneider, movie director (Huelepega)(Punto y Raya) (Des-autorizados) (article in Spanish)

• Samuel Belilty, journalist