April 12, 2026 - American Jews quietly buried the ... the Mafia, famous Jewish American gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel founded no crime families. Much like Irish-Americans and other ethnicities (with the exception of Italian-American criminal organizations), Jewish-American presence ...

December 19, 2017 - His reputation through gangland was that he never lost his temper, but his own men feared him. They called him “The Judge,” sometimes “Judge Louie.” One associate, Sholem Bernstein, summed it up for all when he said, “I don’t ask questions, I just obey.

3 weeks ago - After no other settlement agreed to house them, the government eventually settled them in the Jewish town Harish. The Abu Latifs, a Druze family from Rameh, which operates mainly in the north, is one of main three Arab crime organizations in Israel. Another example was the criminal gang around Moussa Aliyan in New York City whose main business was the importation of heroin. The Russian mafia in Israel began with the mass immigration of Soviet Russian Jews to Israel in 1989.

December 1, 2025 - This is a list of Jewish American mobsters and organized crime figures, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day.

American Jews quietly buried the public memory of the gangster past; unlike the Mafia, famous Jewish American gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel founded no crime families.[20] In more recent years, Jewish-American organized ...

December 15, 2024 - Lansky, along with figures like Bugsy Siegel and Morris "Moke" Goldstein, turned the underworld into a front in the war for Israel. Mafia members helped transport cargo from unsecured ports, prevented interference from law enforcement, and kept ...

December 7, 2022 - Since the nineteenth century Jews have been involved in organized crime all over the U.S. Some of the most famous mafiosos including Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Mickey Cohen were all Jewish boys who grew into some of the most influential ...

August 12, 2025 - Izzat Hamad - The leader of an Arab-Israeli mafia organization based in Jaffa, and is said to have been the leader of a nationally famous extortion organization in Israel. However, he was assassinated in Tel Aviv in July 2021.

March 21, 2023 - Meyer Lansky: Probably the most famous Jewish criminal in the past two hundred years. He was a businessman, mobster, and founder of the American National Crime Syndicate. In his old age, he wished to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel as a Jew ...

June 18, 2025 - Meyer (The Little Man) Lansky was a legendary figure in the Jewish mob, wielding power over New York’s garment district. ... Arthur (The Animal) Intrator was a feared figure in New York’s underworld.

January 9, 2026 - The most famous mobsters were casino mogul Bugsy Siegel, who was the founder of Murder Inc.; Meyer Lansky, who aided Siegel in his rise to fame and power; Hyman Roth, the kingpin of Jewish crime in the 1930s-50s; and Abe Reles, who was the Canary ...

American Jews quietly buried the public memory of the gangster past; unlike the Mafia, famous Jewish American gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel founded no crime families.[19] Much like Irish-Americans and other ethnicities ...

April 19, 2018 - Leading Jewish underworld figures from California and Las Vegas attended, and according to Cohen and other attendees, thousands of dollars was collected. The money, Cohen claimed, was used to buy weapons and have them shipped to Israel. Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno, a top Mafia killer who later turned government informant, attended the party.

Answer (1 of 5): The most famous Jewish mobster — that is, famous for being both Jewish and a mobster — was Meyer Lansky. So well known is Lanksy that he was the model for the character of Hyman Roth in the movie “Godfather Part II.” ...

October 2, 2014 - Many of the major Jewish mobsters, including Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, Lepke Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, and Mickey Cohen, as well as those I interviewed, revered their mothers.

February 11, 2021 - Lacking the codes of conduct associated with the Mafia, they did not last long. Attias served prison sentences in three countries. He was nicknamed “The Crazy” for his violent temper. He made a splash when he moved to New York in 1987 and killed Moussan Aliyan, the mob’s heroin connection. Between 1987 and 1989, they began importing massive quantities of opiates from Amsterdam. The Israeli Mafia also staged the largest heist in Manhattan’s jewelry district.

Many of the Russian mobsters active in New York, especially Brighton Beach, are actually Soviet Jews, including Marat Balagula, Boris Nayfeld, and Evsei Agron. From the 1990s until 2013, members of the New York divorce coercion gang kidnapped ...