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)

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

(Primero Justicia) of the Baruta Municipality, in Caracas.
 * Henrique Capriles Radonsky, current Mayor (2000-2008)

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

Elia K.Schneider the most awarded woman film director of Venezuela
 * Danny Chocrón, open water swimming world champion

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