Madeleine Albright (born 1937), US Secretary of State (1997-2001)
Ehud Barak (b.1942), Israeli prime minister (1999-2001)
Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Prime Minister of Israel (1977-1983)
David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), founder of Israel, Prime Minister of Israel (1948-1953 and 1955-1963)
Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America
Michael Bloomberg (born 1943), founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets, Mayor of New York City (2002-)
Barbara Boxer, US Senator from California
Norm Coleman, US Senator from Minnesota
Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli politician and general. Directed the 1956 Suez War and Six-Day War
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Prime Minister (1868 and 1874-1880), raised as an Anglican
Kurt Eisner (1867-1919), German politician (socialist), first prime minister of Bavaria
Dianne Feinstein, US Senator from California
Russ Feingold, US Senator from Wisconsin
Emma Goldman (1869-1940), feminist and anarchist
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of Zionism
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860-1935), British politician and Viceroy of India
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist leader
Henry Kissinger (born 1923), US Secretary of State (1973-1977), winner of 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
Herb Kohl, US Senator from Wisconsin
Ferdinand Lassal, German Socialist revolutioner
Joe Lieberman, Vice President candidate and US Senator from Connecticut
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), German Communist leader
Karl Marx (1818-1883), founder of Marxism, raised as a Lutheran
Julius L. Meier, governor of the State of Oregon
Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949), Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999)
Shimon Peres (born 1923), Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984-1986, and 1995-1996), shared winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1994

Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977 and 1992-1995), shared 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, assassinated in 1995

Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), German industrialist and statesman
Herbert Samuel (1870-1963), British politician and High Commissioner of Palestine
Charles Schumer, US Senator from New York
Ariel Sharon (b. 1928), Israeli general and prime minister
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian Bolshevik
Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), leading Zionist and first President of Israel
Paul Wellstone former US Senator from Minnesota
Ron Wyden, US Senator from Oregon
Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik