Nirenstein in J’Post list of 50 most influential Jews in the world
Here you can find the J’Post list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world, headed by Marc Zuckerberg, where you can find my name as well.
It is a real honour for me. I’ll do my best to deserve it.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=223862
FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN
Italian politician
Fiamma Nirenstein is one of Europe’s most outspoken pro-Israel legislators. She has been a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition government since 2008, and serves as vice president of the foreign affairs committee in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies.
The former journalist recently made headlines when she wrote that Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian activist and Hamas supporter kidnapped and killed by Salafist terrorists in Gaza, was “a fan of political Islamism because he was an enemy of the Jews” in an article in the Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale. She also declined to participate in a meeting with Iranian parliament members and criticized her fellow foreign affairs committee members for doing so, saying “a dialogue with Iran’s official representatives is completely pointless.”
Following the IDF’s confrontation aboard the Mavi Marmara last year, Nirenstein was among the Chamber of Deputies members who pushed to have the Turkish IHH organization added to the EU’s list of terrorist groups. She also launched “Stand for Israel, Stand for Reason” as a counter-initiative to JCall, which was formed by European Jewish intellectuals to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state.
Nirenstein, 65, also chairs the Chamber of Deputies’ committee of inquiry into anti- Semitism and was given an award from the Knesset for her efforts to fight the oldest hatred.
She lives part of the year in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood with her Israeli husband.
In response to her being chosen as one of The Jerusalem Post’s most influential Jews, she said: “It makes me happy. I will do my best to deserve it.”