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Your Daily Phil: Inside the push to bring Israeli expats home to vote
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BirthdaysTaylor Hill/FilmMagicAmit Rahav, Israeli actor, he was a drama counselor at Camp Ramah Darom in 2016, turns 31 on Sunday…Esther Holler, Brooklyn residentMichael “Mickey” Kantor, former U.S. trade representative and then U.S. secretary of commerce, both positions during the Clinton administration, turns 87Peter Morton, co-founder of the world-wide chain of Hard Rock Café, turns 79Dan Halutz, retired lieutenant general in the Israeli Air Force, he also served as chief of staff of the IDF, turns 78Marty Appel, former PR director for the New York Yankees and author of more than 20 books, turns 78Greg Rosenbaum, president of private equity firm Palisades Associates, former CEO of Empire Kosher Poultry, turns 74Jonathan Pollard, former U.S. intelligence analyst, he pled guilty to espionage in 1986 and was released from prison in 2015 and moved to Israel in 2020, turns 72Rabbi Menachem Greenblatt, spiritual leader of Agudas Israel of St. Louis since 1986Esther Netter, founder of the Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa MonicaMichael Schussheim, former comptroller of the city of Rockville Centre, N.Y., turns 68Samuel D. Zien, television cook, YouTuber, restaurateur and cookbook author, known as Sam the Cooking Guy, turns 67David S. Greenspan, city council president of Westlake, Ohio, turns 61Liran Carmel, professor of computational biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, turns 55Havi Arbeter Goldscher, CEO at Capital Camps & Retreat Center after 14 years at AIPACAbigail Spanberger, governor of Virginia, turns 47Sara Aliza Eisen, financial news anchor for CNBC, turns 42Jonathan V. Swan, Emmy Award-winning political reporter for The New York Times, turns 41Amelia Schimmel, public address announcer for both MLB’s Athletics and the AHL’s San Jose BarracudaRyan Lavarnway, former MLB catcher, he batted .350 with two home runs for Team Israel at the 2020 Olympics, he is now a catching instructor for the Chicago Cubs, turns 39Anna Harwood-Gross, senior faculty at Ariel UniversityEstee Goldschmidt, product management director at Signify HealthZac MacMath, former professional soccer player, he played for the U.S. in the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, turns 35Samuel Robert Buzby, professional Super Smash Bros. player, known as Dabuz, turns 33Scott HarrisonJacob Cramer, founder of Love For Our Elders, a global nonprofit organization in dozens of countries, turns 26SATURDAY:Dustin Hoffman, actor and director, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for “Kramer vs. Kramer” and in 1989 for “Rain Man,”, turns 89Elizabeth Gordon, arlington Heights, Ill., residentFrans Weisglas, Dutch diplomat and politician, he served as the speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives, turns 80Greenwood Village, colo., resident, Robert M. SchwartzRoy D. Pulliam, tampa, Fla., residentLloyd James Austin III, retired U.S. Army four-star general, who then served as the secretary of defense during the Biden administration, turns 73Juliana E. Miles Bagherpour, Vancouver, Wash., residentDavid Melech Friedman, U.S. ambassador to Israel throughout the Trump 45 administration, turns 68Michael Graubart Levin, former CEO of BusinessGhost, a ghostwriting firm that has written and published over 700 books, turns 68Stuart L. Sternberg, former managing general partner of MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, turns 67Leonid Yudasin, chess grandmaster, once ranked 8th in the world, he is the director of the Brooklyn Chess Academy, turns 67Ron Klain, white House chief of staff for the first two years of the Biden administration, turns 65Jon Turteltaub, film director whose works include nine Disney films, turns 63Elissa F. Cadish, former chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, she continues to serve as a justice, turns 62Jonah Seiger, digital strategist, he is the founding partner of Fuse, a consultancyRabbi Gil Ofer Student, former book editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine, turns 54Benjamin A. Weinman, lead guitarist of the mathcore band the Dillinger Escape Plan, also playing rhythm guitar with the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, turns 51Lindsay Sloane, film and television actor, turns 49Craig Breslow, MLB pitcher for 12 seasons and now chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, turns 46Sophie Flack, author, freelance writer and editor, she is a former dancer with the New York City Ballet, turns 43Bara Lane, managing principal at Rocktower CapitalJacob Benjamin “Jake” Goldsbie, Canadian film, television and stage actor, turns 38Sarah Garfinkel, digital director at the Jewish Democratic Council of AmericaAddie Lerner Katz, founder and managing partner at Avid VenturesZachary Pellish, director of marketing and communications at Alpha Epsilon PiMorgan Furlong, creative producer for AirbnbJennifer Leigh “Jen” Selter, internet celebrity and fitness model, turns 33Jack BaumRob Schwartz…SUNDAY:Rabbi Moshe Maya, prominent Sephardic rabbi in Tel Aviv, he was a member of the Knesset for the Shas party, turns 88Donald M. “Don” Spero, P