COMMUNITY

Gidi Mark

CEO

The first employee of the wildly successful Jewish nonprofit Taglit-Birthright Israel, Gidi Mark is still with the organization 23 years later. Mark is considered to be the most senior and experienced CEO of any nonprofit Jewish organization in Israel and worldwide. Mark was able to bring together philanthropists from across the Jewish religious and political spectrum to create an empire whose budget is hundreds of millions of dollars a year. At the mega-event of Birthright in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2022 that celebrated the 800,000th participant, Mark said that he hopes to reach a million participants by the time the organization celebrates its 25th anniversary. Then, he explained, a generation of young Jews will have been to Israel and "connected or re-connected to their Jewish values." (Photo: courtesy)