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Chuck Schumer

Senate Majority Leader with Galician-Jewish roots

Ari Fleischer

Bush's voice at the podium, rooted in the Pale

Artem Dolgopyat

Soviet-born gymnast who brought gold to Israel

Gal Gadot

From the Pale of Settlement to the silver screen.

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

First female Permanent Secretary of the Académie française, born of Russian-Georgian noble descent

Isser Harel

Born in Vitebsk, built the Mossad and personally captured Adolf Eichmann

Linoy Ashram

Israeli rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champion whose family has Russian and Greek roots

Mayumana (group)

Israeli percussion and dance troupe with Russian-Soviet roots that became a global theatrical phenomenon

Meir Dagan

Born in Novosibirsk to Holocaust survivors — became the most feared Mossad chief in history

Michael Cherney

Tashkent-born metals billionaire at the heart of Russia's most turbulent post-Soviet aluminium wars

Nigel Lawson

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer with Latvian-Russian Jewish roots who engineered the Lawson Boom

Peter Van Loan

Canadian Conservative MP whose family traces to Estonia and Russia — former House Leader

Rita (Rita Yahan-Farouz)

Israel's greatest diva — Iranian-Jewish heritage who sang in Russian for a million new Israelis

Shari Arison

Daughter of Ted Arison — Israel's wealthiest woman with Romanian-Russian Jewish roots

Waldemar Herdt

Kazakhstan-born Russlanddeutsche who became a CDU politician in Germany

Yaakov Kedmi

Zvi Zamir