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Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat currently serving as the 71st United States secretary of state.He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. [1]
The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had 47 Jewish American members altogether. Of that number, 27 different Jewish American individuals held a total of 27 permanent cabinet posts, having served as the heads of the federal executive departments; 20 different Jewish Americans have held 21 cabinet-level positions, which ...
Blinken was born in 1879 in Pereyaslavl, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), to Yankel Blinkin and Rys (Ruth) Kelman. [1] There he studied at a religious Jewish primary school, followed by a business education in Kyiv. [1]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday separately met US leaders from the Jewish as well as Arab and Palestinian-American communities amid war in the Middle East between Israel and ...
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead on Sept. 6 as she took part in a protest march in the town of Beita against Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank. Speaking to reporters after meeting ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel Thursday to pledge that the United States will never falter from its support for Israel as he condemned Hamas’ “litany of brutality and ...
Donald Mayer Blinken [1] (November 11, 1925 – September 22, 2022) was an American businessman and diplomat. [2] [3] A co-founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, he was the chairman of the board of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 to 1997.
The families of American-Israeli hostages met with Blinken before he left Israel, urging him to apply more pressure on the mediating countries, especially Qatar, to restart negotiations, the ...