List of Jewish heads of state and government

This is a list of former and current heads of state and heads of government who are of Jewish or have a largely Jewish heritage, other than the heads of state and government of Israel. This list includes de facto heads of state and government but does not include acting, caretaker, interim, representative, transitional or temporary heads of state and government.

Heads of state and heads of government

S.No.PortraitNameOfficeCountry TermBirthplaceAncestry1Samuel ibn NagrellaGrand Vizier and NagidTaifa of Granada, Al-Andalus10271055Cordoba, Al-AndalusSephardic Jewish*

2Yosef ibn NagrellaGrand Vizier and NagidTaifa of Granada, Al-Andalus105530 December 1066Granada, Al-AndalusSephardic Jewish* 3Sa'd al-Dawla al-Safi ibn HibatullahGrand VizierIlkhanate, Mongol Empire12891291Abhar, IranPersian Jew4Joseph NasiDuke of NaxosDuchy of the Archipelago15661579Kingdom of PortugalPortuguese Jewish*

5Luis de Carvajal y de la CuevaGovernor of the New Kingdom of León15801588Mogadouro, Kingdom of PortugalPortuguese Jewish* 6Gabriel MilanGovernor of The Danish West Indies7 May 16845 July 1686Glückstadt, GermanySephardic Jewish7Juan LindoPresident of El Salvador28 June 18411 February 1842Tegucigalpa, HondurasSephardic Jewish*President of Honduras2 February 18471 February 18528Benjamin DisraeliPrime Minister of the United Kingdom27 February 18681 December 1868Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England, United KingdomBritish Jewish, Italian Jewish20 February 187421 April 18809Julius VogelPremier of New Zealand8 April 18736 July 1875London, United KingdomEnglish JewishJulius Vogel: Business Politician By Raewyn Dalziel, 201315 February 18761 September 187610Vaiben Louis SolomonPremier of South Australia1 December 18998 December 1899Adelaide, South AustraliaAustralian Jewish* 11Matthew NathanGovernor of the Gold Coast17 December 19009 February 1904London, United KingdomEnglish Jewish*

Governor of Hong Kong29 July 190429 July 1907Governor of Natal Colony of Natal2 September 190723 December 190912Alessandro FortisPrime Minister of Italy28 March 19058 February 1906Forlì, Papal StatesItalian Jewish*13Sidney SonninoPrime Minister of Italy8 February 190629 May 1906Pisa, Grand Duchy of TuscanyItalian Jewish* father, raised Christian11 December 190931 March 191014Luigi LuzzattiPrime Minister of Italy31 March 191030 March 1911Venice, Kingdom of Lombardy–VenetiaItalian Jewish15Francisco Henríquez y CarvajalPresident of the Dominican Republic31 July 191629 November 1916Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicDutch Jewish, Sephardic Jewish16Lev KamenevChairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee9 November 191721 November 1917Moscow, Russian EmpireRussian Jewish descentDeputy Premier as part of the TroikaMay 1922April 192517Yakov SverdlovChairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee21 November 191716 March 1919Nizhny Novgorod, Russian EmpireRussian Jewish18Abraham SchrameckGovernor-general of French Madagascar1 August 191812 July 1919Saint-Étienne, FranceFrench Jewish* 19Kurt EisnerMinister President of the People's State of Bavaria8 November 191821 February 1919Berlin, Kingdom of PrussiaGerman Jewish*20Béla KunDe facto leaderPeople's Commissar of Foreign Affairs21 March 19191 August 1919Lele, Austria-HungaryHungarian Jewish*21Eugen LevinéLeader of the Bavarian Soviet RepublicBavarian Soviet Republic12 April 19193 May 1919St Petersburg, Russian EmpireRussian Jewish*22Alexandre MillerandPrime Minister of France20 January 192024 September 1920Paris, France His mother was Alsatian Jewish*Alexandre Millerand: socialiste discuté, ministre contesté et président déchu : 1859-1943 Jean-Louis Rizzo Harmattan, 2013President of France23 September 192011 June 192423Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelHigh Commissioner for Palestine1 July 192030 June 1925Liverpool, EnglandBritish Jewish*

24Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of ReadingViceroy and Governor-General of India2 April 19213 April 1926London, EnglandBritish Jewish* 25Zigfrīds Anna MeierovicsPrime Minister of Latvia19 June 192126 January 1923Durbe, LatviaLatvian Jewish28 June 192326 January 192426Francis BellPrime Minister of New Zealand14 May 192530 May 1925Nelson, New ZealandNew Zealand Jew*27Sir Isaac IsaacsGovernor-General of Australia21 January 193123 January 1936Melbourne, AustraliaPolish Jewish*

28Léon BlumPrime Minister of France4 June 193622 June 1937Paris, FranceFrench Jewish, Alsatian Jewish*13 March 193810 April 193816 December 194622 January 194729Léon GeismarActing governor-general of French West Africa14 July 193828 October 1938Dambach-la-Ville, Alsace-LorraineAlsatian JewishJob, Françoise. « Léon Geismar, gouverneur des colonies [Dambach-la-Ville (Bas-Rhin), 15 juillet 1895 – Casablanca, 11 mai 1944] », Archives Juives, vol. vol. 38, no. 2, 2005, pp. 145-150.30Mátyás RákosiGeneral Secretary of the MKP/MDP23 February 194518 July 1956Ada, Austria-HungaryHungarian JewishPrime Minister of Hungary14 August 1952 4 July 195331Andrew CohenGovernor of UgandaUganda ProtectorateJanuary 19521957Berkhamsted, United KingdomBritish Jewish32René MayerPrime Minister of France8 January 1953 28 June 1953Paris, FranceFrench Jewish* father33Pierre Mendès FrancePrime Minister of France18 June 1954 23 February 1955Paris, FranceFrench Jewish, Portuguese Jewish*34David MarshallChief Minister of Singapore6 April 19557 June 1956Singapore, Straits SettlementsBaghdadi Jewish* 35Ernő GerőGeneral Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party18 July 195625 October 1956Terbegec, Austria-HungaryHungarian Jewish36Roy WelenskyPrime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland2 November 195631 December 1963Salisbury, Southern RhodesiaLithuanian Jewish*

father, identified as "half Jewish"37Michel DebréPrime Minister of France8 January 195914 April 1962Paris, FranceAlsatian Jewish,* raised Catholic38Joshua HassanChief Minister of Gibraltar11 August 19646 August 1969GibraltarGibraltarian Jewish, Sephardic Jewish*

25 June 19728 December 198739Bruno KreiskyChancellor of Austria21 April 197024 May 1983Vienna, Austria-HungaryAustrian Jewish*40Sir Zelman CowenGovernor-General of Australia8 December 197729 July 1982Melbourne, AustraliaAustralian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish*

41Léon Kengo wa DondoPrime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo5 November 198231 October 1986Libenge, Belgian CongoPolish JewishGérard Prunier, The Rwanda crisis: history of a genocide, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, London, 1995, p. 319 n16 father26 November 19884 May 19906 July 19942 April 199742Laurent FabiusPrime Minister of France17 July 198420 March 1986Paris, FranceFrench Jewish,American Jewish Year Book 1986 Milton Himmelfarb, David Singer American Jewish Committee, 1986 parents converted to Catholicism and was raised Catholic43Eric Arturo DelvallePresident of Panama28 September 1985 26 February 1988Panama City, PanamaPanamanian Jewish, Portuguese Jewish43Henny EmanPrime Minister of Aruba1 January 19869 February 1989ArubaAruban Jewish* 29 July 199430 October 200144Petre RomanPrime Minister of Romania20 June 19901 October 1991Bucharest, Kingdom of RomaniaHungarian Jewish father,*

Juviler, P. (1999) Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe by Vladimir Tismaneanu. Political Science Quarterly 114 (2) p.345–346. showed no interest in Jewish affairs and was married in a Romanian Orthodox wedding ceremony*45József AntallPrime Minister of Hungary23 May 199012 December 1993Budapest, HungaryHungarian Jewish46Ruth DreifussMember of Swiss Federal Council10 March 1993 31 December 2002St. Gallen, SwitzerlandSwiss Jewish*President of Switzerland1 January 1999 31 December 199947Efraín GoldenbergPrime Minister of Peru17 February 199428 July 1995Lima, PeruPeruvian Jewish, Romanian Jewish48Gyula HornPrime Minister of Hungary15 July 19946 July 1998Budapest, HungaryHungarian Jewish49Janet JaganPresident of Guyana19 December 1997 11 August 1999Chicago, Illinois, United StatesGuyanese Jewish, American Jewish*50Sergey KiriyenkoPrime Minister of Russia23 March 199823 August 1998Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet UnionRussian Jewish, Georgian Jewish51Yevgeny PrimakovPrime Minister of Russia11 September 199812 May 1999Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionRussian Jewish*52Ricardo MaduroPresident of Honduras27 January 2002 27 January 2006PanamaHonduran Jewish, Portuguese Jewish*53Zurab ZhvaniaPrime Minister of Georgia17 February 20043 February 2005Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet UnionArmenian Jewish54Mikhail FradkovPrime Minister of Russia5 March 200414 September 2007Samara, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionRussian Jewish*55Pedro Pablo KuczynskiPrime Minister of Peru16 August 200527 July 2006Lima, PeruGerman Jewish, Peruvian JewishPresident of Peru28 July 201623 March 201856Yehude SimonPrime Minister of Peru14 October 200811 July 2009Lima, PeruPeruvian Jewish57John KeyPrime Minister of New Zealand19 November 200812 December 2016Auckland, New ZealandAustrian Jewish mother, he is agnostic and regularly attended church58Jan FischerPrime Minister of the Czech Republic8 May 2009 13 July 2010Prague, CzechoslovakiaCzech JewishSources for Fischer...59Mike EmanPrime Minister of Aruba30 October 200917 November 2017Oranjestad, ArubaAruban JewishSources for Eman...28 March 2025Incumbent60Salomón Lerner GhitisPrime Minister of Peru28 July 201110 December 2011Lima, PeruPeruvian Jewish*61Volodymyr GroysmanPrime Minister of Ukraine14 April 2016 29 August 2019Vinnytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionUkrainian Jewish*62 Volodymyr ZelenskyyPresident of Ukraine20 May 2019 IncumbentKryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionUkrainian Jewish*63Laurentino CortizoPresident of Panama1 July 20191 July 2024Panama City, PanamaGreek Jewish* mother, but is a devout Roman Catholic64Egils LevitsPresident of Latvia8 July 20198 July 2023Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet UnionLatvian Jewish* father, does not identify as Jewish65Sophie WilmèsPrime Minister of Belgium27 October 20191 October 2020Ixelles, Brussels, BelgiumBelgian Jewish*66Mikhail MishustinPrime Minister of Russia16 January 2020IncumbentLobnya, Russian SFSRRussian Jewish*67Élisabeth BornePrime Minister of France16 May 20229 January 2024Paris, FranceFrench Jewish, Belgian Jewish, Polish Jewish*68Aleksandr RozenbergPrime Minister of Transnistria30 May 2022IncumbentLadyzhyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Ukrainian Jewish69Gabriel AttalPrime Minister of France9 January 20245 September 2024Clamart, FranceFrench Jewish, Tunisian Jewish*70Claudia SheinbaumPresident of Mexico1 October 2024IncumbentMexico City, MexicoLithuanian Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish*

Heads of state and heads of government with minor Jewish heritage Some former head of states and government have smaller amounts of Jewish heritage. Boris Johnson, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom whose maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant, said in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle, "I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that's when it sort of comes out". David Cameron, another former prime minister of the United Kingdom, has referenced the German Jewish ancestry of one of his great-grandfathers, Arthur Levita, a descendant of the Yiddish author Elia Levita.