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Adam Milstein (Hebrew: אדם מילשטיין; born 1952) is an Israeli–American investor and philanthropist. He is a managing partner at Hager Pacific Properties.

He founded and funded organizations supporting Jewish causes, and organizations advocating support for Israel, including countering what he regards as anti-Israel initiatives such as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.[2] He and his wife, Gila, founded the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation in 2000. He is a co-founder of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) and served as chairman from 2015 to 2019.

Early life and education

Milstein was born in Haifa, Israel, the eldest child of Eva (née Temkin), a homemaker, and Hillel Milstein, a real estate developer.[3][4] He served in the Israeli army during the Yom Kippur War with Ariel Sharon‘s brigade.[5]

Milstein has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Technion and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He moved with his wife and children to the United States in 1981.[5]

Investment career

Milstein is a managing partner of Hager Pacific Properties, a commercial real estate firm that specializes in acquiring, rehabilitating, and repositioning industrial, retail, office, and multi-family properties.[5][6]

Philanthropy and political donations

Milstein and his wife, Gila, founded the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation in 2000. The organization sponsors education of students and young professionals to identify with their Jewish roots and gain knowledge to advocate for the State of Israel and the Jewish people.[3]

Milstein co-founded the Israeli American Council in 2007 and was named chairman of the group in 2015, serving until 2019.[7][8][9][10] He sits on the boards of StandWithUs and Hasbara Fellowships.[11] He previously served on the boards of Israel on Campus Coalition, Jewish Funders Network, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) National Council.[12] He joined Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban in June 2015 to organize the inaugural Campus Maccabees summit, which opposes Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) groups and activities on college campuses in the United States.[13] He strongly opposes the BDS movement, and has had several opinion pieces published on the subject.[14][15]

In 2011, he and his wife launched Sifriyat Pijama B’America, which until 2016 provided free monthly books in Hebrew to Israeli-Jewish American families in the United States, in partnership with IAC.[16] They started The Impact Forum in 2016, an initiative which “fights antisemitism, strengthens the state of Israel, and protects American democracy”.[17][18]

Personal life

Milstein pled guilty to tax evasion involving his donations to the Spinka Hasidic sect in 2009[19] and served three months in prison, was required to do 600 hours of community service, and paid a $30,000 fine.[12]

The Jerusalem Post selected him for its list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world in 2016.[1] Algemeiner Journal named him to its list, “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life” in 2015 and 2016.[20][21] In Gil Troy‘s book, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow (2018), he identified Milstein as a contemporary leader of cultural Zionism for his vision to “invigorate Zionism and Jewish identity” worldwide.[22]

He withdrew from speaking at the 2019 AIPAC conference after he posted tweets connecting Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to the Muslim Brotherhood. Milstein said his views as expressed on Twitter had been “mischaracterized.”[23]

He lives in Encino, California, with his wife. They have three daughters and three grandchildren.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b “Jerusalem Post 50 Most Influential Jews: Number 39 – Adam Milstein Orthodox Jew”. The Jerusalem Post. September 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Kempinski, Yoni (9 June 2015). “We Will Boycott the Boycotters and Make them Illegal”. Arutz7.
  3. ^ a b ROSENBAUM, ALAN (May 19, 2022). “Adam Milstein: Making an impact through strategic venture philanthropy | The Jerusalem Post”. The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  4. ^ “Adam Milstein: From Business Success to Innovative Philanthropy”. www.baltictimes.com.
  5. ^ a b c “Adam Milstein: Leading by example”. Jewish Journal. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  6. ^ “Hager Pacific Properties”. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  7. ^ “Why we set up the Israeli-American Council”. Times of Israel.
  8. ^ “The Israeli-Americans: Who they are, what they want, where they’re headed, why they matter”. Jewish Journal. May 14, 2015.
  9. ^ Sales, Ben (October 31, 2017). “Israelis will power the future of American Jewry, IAC chair says”. JTA.
  10. ^ “Adam Milstein: The Strategic Philanthropist and His Analysis of Contemporary Threats”, Daily Excelsior, February 20, 2026. Accessed April 17, 2026. “Under his leadership as chairman from 2015 to 2019, the IAC grew from a small community organization to what Vice President Mike Pence called ‘the largest Israeli-American organization in the world.'”
  11. ^ “Gila & Adam Milstein”. Merona Leadership Foundation. Retrieved July 27, 2025.
  12. ^ a b Kane, Alex (March 25, 2019). “Right-wing donor Adam Milstein has spent millions of dollars to stifle the BDS movement and attack critics of Israeli policy”. The Intercept.
  13. ^ Guttman, Nathan (2015-06-09). “Secret Sheldon Adelson Summit Raises up to $50M for Strident Anti-BDS Push”. The Forward. Retrieved 2025-10-24.
  14. ^ ZIRI, DANIELLE (May 22, 2016). “IAC head Milstein urges: Boycott the boycotters”. The Jerusalem Post.
  15. ^ Linde, Steve (April 25, 2016). “The Israeli-American connector”. The Jerusalem Post.
  16. ^ “Sifriyat Pijama B’America”. pjlibrary.org. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  17. ^ “Food, money and Jews”. Jewish Journal. August 3, 2017.
  18. ^ Alan Rosenbaum (April 8, 2024). “‘Our mission is to fight antisemitism, strengthen the state of Israel, protect American democracy’“. Jerusalem Post. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  19. ^ Bamford, James (May 16, 2024). “The Israel-Affiliated Organization Leading the Backlash Against Student Protests”. The Nation. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  20. ^ Algemeiner, The. “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2015”.
  21. ^ Algemeiner, The. “Adam Milstein”.
  22. ^ Troy, Gil (2018). The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 469–471.
  23. ^ Ron Kampeas (2019-03-19). “Prominent pro-Israel donor pulls out of AIPAC conference after saying two Muslim lawmakers ‘clash’ with American values”. JTA.
  24. ^ “Adam Milstein”. Hager Pacific. Archived from the original on 2013-07-27.