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Our Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary since inception. Mr. Lifton is a director and member of the executive and investment committees of Bank Leumi USA. He also is an officer and director of a number of privately held companies.
From 1988 to 1994, he was President of the American Jewish Congress and is the founding Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of the Israel Policy Forum. From 1994 to date he has served as co-chairman of the U.S. Middle East Project of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1983, he was a founder of Preferred Health Care Ltd. and served as its President. In 1961, he co-founded with Mr. Weingrow the Transcontinental Investing Corporation, serving as its President until 1968, when it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and then Chairman of the Board until its merger in 1972.
Mr. Lifton was an associate attorney with the law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler in 1955 and 1956, after receiving a law degree from Yale Law School and being admitted to the New York Bar, and has taught at Yale and Columbia law schools. Mr. Lifton has written extensively on business and political matters. | 