of Ukraine (2016–2019) Hennadiy Kernes, Mayor of Kharkiv 2010–2020 Ihor Kolomoyskyi, former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2014-2015 Pinhas Krasny, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine Vadim Rabinovich, 2014 presidential candidate Moisei Rafes, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat Abraham Revutsky, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (2019–present) Moishe Zilberfarb, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat Alexander Zolotarev, state controller for the General Secretariat Yukhym Zvyahilsky, former Prime Minister of Ukraine 1993-1994 and entrepreneur Oleksandr Feldman, People's Deputy of Ukraine (2002–present) Russian/Soviet politicians Karl Radek, Soviet politician Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army, commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs Lazar Kaganovich, Stalinist politician and one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Holodomor and Stalinist Great Purge Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician, chekist Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal "Yabloko" party (half Jewish) Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician Israeli politicians Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63) Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69) Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78) Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74) Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55) United States politicians Kirill Reznik, US Politician, Member, Maryland House of Delegates (2007–Present) Israeli military persons Yaakov Dori, first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949); President of Technion. Tzvi Tzur, sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964) Soldiers and Revolutionaries Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy Naftali Botwin, revolutionary terrorist Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy Leo Deutsch, revolutionary Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S. Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion Jacob Golos, Soviet spy Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky) Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy Alexander Parvus, revolutionary, major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General) Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in