Rudolph Sonneborn

Rudolf Goldschmid Sonneborn was a New York industrialist and oil executive. He was a longtime leader of the American Zionist Movement and one of the most prominent fund-raisers for a future state of Israel in the 1940's and 1950's and onetime president of The State of Israel Bond Drive. He purchased 1957 Socony Mobil's Israel operations and renamed it Sonol Israel Ltd. - it remains today one of the leading oil companies in Israel.

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