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of state or governmentTitleCountryIn office fromIn office untilBorn inJewish ancestrySamuel ibn NagrellaGrand Vizier and NagidTaifa of Granada, Al-Andalus10271055Cordoba, Al-AndalusSephardic Jewish[1][2][3][4]Yosef ibn NagrellaGrand Vizier and NagidTaifa of Granada, Al-Andalus105530 December 1066Granada, Al-AndalusSephardic Jewish[5][6][7][8]Joseph NasiDuke of Naxos\u00a0Duchy of the Archipelago15661579Kingdom of PortugalPortuguese Jewish[9][10][11]Luis de Carvajal y de la CuevaGovernor of the New Kingdom of Le\u00f3n\u00a0New Kingdom of Le\u00f3n15801588Mogadouro, Kingdom of PortugalPortuguese Jewish[12][13][14]Gabriel MilanGovernor of The Danish West Indies\u00a0The Danish West Indies7 May 16845 July 1686Gl\u00fcckstadt, GermanySephardic Jewish[15][16]Juan LindoPresident of El Salvador\u00a0El Salvador7 January 18411 February 1842Tegucigalpa, HondurasSephardic Jewish[17][18][19][20]President of Honduras\u00a0Honduras2 February 18471 February 1852Benjamin DisraeliPrime Minister of the United Kingdom\u00a0United Kingdom27 February 18681 December 1868Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England, United KingdomBritish Jewish, Italian Jewish[21][22][23][24]20 February 187421 April 1880Julius VogelPremier of New Zealand\u00a0New Zealand8 April 18736 July 1875London, United KingdomEnglish Jewish[25][26][27][28]15 February 18761 September 1876Vaiben Louis SolomonPremier of South Australia\u00a0South Australia1 December 18998 December 1899Adelaide, South AustraliaAustralian Jewish[29][30][31]Matthew NathanGovernor of the Gold Coast\u00a0Gold Coast17 December 19009 February 1904London, United KingdomEnglish Jewish[32][33][34]Governor of Hong Kong\u00a0Hong Kong29 July 190429 July 1907Governor of Natal Colony of Natal2 September 190723 December 1909Alessandro FortisPrime Minister of Italy\u00a0Italy28 March 19058 February 1906Forl\u00ec, Papal StatesItalian Jewish[35][36][37]Luigi LuzzattiPrime Minister of Italy\u00a0Italy31 March 191030 March 1911Venice, Kingdom of Lombardy\u2013VenetiaItalian Jewish[38][39][40]Francisco Henr\u00edquez y CarvajalPresident of the Dominican Republic\u00a0Dominican Republic31 July 191629 November 1916Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicDutch Jewish, Sephardic Jewish[41][42][43][44]Yakov SverdlovChairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee\u00a0Soviet Russia21 November 191716 March 1919Nizhny Novgorod, Russian EmpireRussian Jewish[45][46][47][48]Abraham SchrameckGovernor-general of French Madagascar\u00a0French Madagascar1 August 191812 July 1919Saint-\u00c9tienne, FranceFrench Jewish[49][50]Kurt EisnerMinister President of the People’s State of Bavaria\u00a0Bavaria8 November 191821 February 1919Berlin, Kingdom of PrussiaGerman Jewish[51][52][53]Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelHigh Commissioner for Palestine\u00a0Mandatory Palestine1 July 192030 June 1925Liverpool, EnglandBritish Jewish[54][55][56]Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of ReadingViceroy and Governor-General of India\u00a0British India2 April 19213 April 1926London, EnglandBritish Jewish[57][58][59]Zigfr\u012bds Anna MeierovicsPrime Minister of Latvia\u00a0Latvia19 June 192126 January 1923Durbe, LatviaLatvian Jewish[60][61][62]28 June 192326 January 1924Sir Isaac IsaacsGovernor-General of Australia\u00a0Australia21 January 193123 January 1936Melbourne, AustraliaPolish Jewish[63][62][64][65]L\u00e9on BlumPrime Minister of France\u00a0France4 June 193622 June 1937Paris, FranceFrench Jewish, Alsatian Jewish[66][67]13 March 193810 April 193816 December 194622 January 1947L\u00e9on GeismarActing governor-general of French West Africa\u00a0French West Africa14 July 193828 October 1938Dambach-la-Ville, Alsace-LorraineAlsatian Jewish[68]David Ben-GurionPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel17 May 194826 January 1954P\u0142o\u0144sk, Congress Poland, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Polish Jewish[69][70][71]3 November 195526 June 1963Chaim WeizmannPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel17 February 19499 November 1952Motal, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[72][73][74]Andrew CohenGovernor of UgandaUganda ProtectorateJanuary 19521957Berkhamsted, United KingdomBritish Jewish[75]Yitzhak Ben-ZviPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel16 December 195223 April 1963Poltava, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[76][77][78][79]Ren\u00e9 MayerPrime Minister of France\u00a0France8 January 195328 June 1953Paris, FranceFrench Jewish[80][81]Moshe SharettPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel26 January 19543 November 1955Kherson, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[82][83][84][85][86]Pierre Mend\u00e8s FrancePrime Minister of France\u00a0France18 June 195423 February 1955Paris, FranceFrench Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[87][88][89]David MarshallChief Minister of Singapore\u00a0Singapore6 April 19557 June 1956Singapore, Straits SettlementsBaghdadi Jewish[90][91]Ern\u0151 Ger\u0151General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People’s Party\u00a0Hungary18 July 195625 October 1956Terbegec, Austria-HungaryHungarian Jewish[92]Roy WelenskyPrime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandFederation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland2 November 195631 December 1963Salisbury, Southern RhodesiaLithuanian Jewish[93][94][95]Zalman ShazarPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel21 May 196324 May 1973Mir, Minsk Governorate, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[96][97][98]Levi EshkolPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel26 June 196326 February 1969Orativ, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[99][100][101][102]Joshua HassanChief Minister of Gibraltar\u00a0Gibraltar11 August 19646 August 1969GibraltarGibraltarian Jewish, Sephardic Jewish[103][104][105]25 June 19728 December 1987Max DelvallePresident of Panama\u00a0PanamaApril 8, 1967April 15, 1967Panama City, PanamaPanamanian Jewish,Portuguese Jewish[106][107]Yigal AllonActing Prime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel26 February 196917 March 1969Kfar Tavor, Occupied Enemy Territory AdministrationIsraeli Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[108][109][110]Golda MeirPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel17 March 19693 June 1974Kyiv, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[111][112]Bruno KreiskyChancellor of Austria\u00a0Austria21 April 197024 May 1983Vienna, Austria-HungaryAustrian Jewish[113][114][115][116]Ephraim KatzirPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel24 May 197324 May 1978Kyiv, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[117][118][119]Yitzhak RabinPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel3 June 197420 June 1977Jerusalem, Mandatory PalestineIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish[120][121]13 July 19924 November 1995Menachem BeginPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel20 June 197710 October 1983Brest, Russian EmpireIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[122][123][124][125]Sir Zelman CowenGovernor-General of Australia\u00a0Australia8 December 197729 July 1982Melbourne, AustraliaAustralian Jewish, Belarusian 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DelvallePresident of Panama\u00a0Panama28 September 198526 February 1988Panama City, PanamaPanamanian Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[146]Henny EmanPrime Minister of Aruba\u00a0Aruba1 January 19869 February 1989ArubaAruban Jewish[147][148]29 July 199430 October 2001Ruth DreifussMember of Swiss Federal Council\u00a0Switzerland10 March 199331 December 2002St. Gallen, SwitzerlandSwiss Jewish[149][150][151]President of Switzerland1 January 199931 December 1999Ezer WeizmanPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel13 May 199313 July 2000Tel Aviv, Mandatory PalestineIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[72][73][74]Efra\u00edn GoldenbergPrime Minister of Peru\u00a0Peru17 February 199428 July 1995Lima, PeruPeruvian Jewish, Romanian Jewish[152][153]Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel18 June 19966 July 1999Tel Aviv, IsraelIsraeli Jewish, Polish Jewish[154][155]31 March 200913 June 202129 December 2022IncumbentJanet JaganPrime Minister of Guyana\u00a0Guyana17 March 199719 December 1997Chicago, Illinois, United StatesGuyanese Jewish, American Jewish[156][157][158]President of Guyana19 December 199711 August 1999Ehud BarakPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel6 July 19997 March 2001Mishmar HaSharon, Mandatory PalestineIsraeli Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish[159][160]Moshe KatsavPresident of Israel\u00a0Israel1 August 20001 July 2007Yazd, IranIsraeli Jewish, Persian Jewish[161][162]Ariel SharonPrime Minister of Israel\u00a0Israel7 March 200114 April 2006Kfar Malal, Mandatory PalestineIsraeli Jewish, Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish[163][164][165]Ricardo MaduroPresident of Honduras\u00a0Honduras27 January 200227 January 2006PanamaHonduran Jewish, Portuguese Jewish[166][167][168][169][170]Zurab ZhvaniaPrime Minister of Georgia\u00a0Georgia17 February 20043 February 2005Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet UnionArmenian Jewish[171][172][62]Pedro Pablo KuczynskiPrime Minister of Peru\u00a0Peru16 August 200527 July 2006Lima, PeruGerman Jewish, Peruvian Jewish[173][172][62]President 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