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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Michael Bloomberg

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)
March 5, 2025, 5:46 am
Michael Bloomberg tops list of America’s leading donors for 2nd year in a row
Former NYC mayor gave $3.7 billion to variety of philanthropical causes last year; other top donors include Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, retired professor Ruth Gottesman
By Maria Di Mento and Jim Rendon
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)
January 24, 2025, 10:08 am
Michael Bloomberg steps in again to fund UN climate body in response to Trump moves
In repeat of 2017, billionaire former mayor of New York vows support for Framework Convention on Climate Change after new US president cuts funding, pulls out of Paris accords
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the graduation ceremony of new Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base, December 31, 2015 (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
March 6, 2023, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 6: Will Netanyahu be swayed by pushback from reservists?
ToI editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discuss opposition in the IDF to judicial reform and growing criticism from Israel’s allies
By ToI Staff
Former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (L), seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Bloomberg arrives in Israel on July 23, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO)
March 5, 2023, 8:02 pm
Michael Bloomberg warns Israel ‘courting disaster’ with judicial overhaul
Billionaire former New York mayor urges Netanyahu to ‘slow down’ controversial legislation, says he understands those pulling funds from country
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg seen at the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, November 3, 2019. (Peter Barreras/ Invision/ AP)
January 26, 2023, 5:51 am
Half of US’s 25 most generous philanthropists are Jews. Few give to Jewish groups
12 billionaires with Jewish backgrounds appear on list of America’s ‘most generous givers’ who donated a collective $27 billion in 2022
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (right) is sworn in for his third term by Chief Judge of the State of New York Jonathan Lippman, left, on the steps of City Hall in New York, on January 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
February 5, 2022, 9:24 am
Man charged with kidnapping worker at Bloomberg home; was looking for ex-mayor, kids
Suspect ‘wanted to make a scene’ with billionaire or his adult daughters when he kidnapped housekeeper at gunpoint; authorities say woman was unharmed
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
People sit alongside the Bat Yam promenade on March 4, 2017. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
November 16, 2021, 2:36 pm
Municipal innovation teams tackle social, economic challenges in Israeli cities
Local ‘i-teams’ use tools developed by Bloomberg Philanthropies to boost civic renewal, effect change with limited resources, in partnership with Peres Center, Interior Ministry
By Ricky Ben-David
Mike Bloomberg speaks at a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, February 12, 2020. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images via JTA)
June 9, 2021, 11:25 pm
Bloomberg vows to nab whoever leaked his tax records
Documents obtained by nonprofit ProPublica show billionaire philanthropist paid 3.7% on $1.9 billion in income in 2018, and 1.3% for the period 2014-2018
By Asaf Shalev
Tom Steyer speaks at the Center for American Progress conference in Washington on May 22, 2019. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty Images/via JTA)
September 25, 2020, 5:59 pm
Meet the leading Jewish political donors in this US election cycle
Tom Steyer tops list of all donors with over $80 million in combined donations through September 8; Adelsons rank No. 5, Soros No. 24
By Ron Kampeas
Then-Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at a campaign event in Providence, Rhode Island, February 5, 2020. (David Goldman/AP)
September 16, 2020, 2:31 pm
How Bloomberg’s $100 million Florida bet may shape US presidential campaign
Aside from freeing up Democrat resources for other key swing states, a win for Biden could tamp down Trump’s railing against mail ballots
By BRIAN SLODYSKO and Alexandra Jaffe
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, visits with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York, September 11, 2020, before a ceremony marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
September 13, 2020, 8:10 pm
Bloomberg to spend at least $100 million to help Biden in Florida
Trump takes shot at former NY mayor for pouring money into the US state, says he ‘thought Mini Mike was through with Democrat politics’
By Julie Pace and Alexandra Jaffe
Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a FOX News Channel Town Hall, co-moderated by FNC’s chief political anchor Bret Baier of Special Report and The Story anchor Martha MacCallum, at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Va., March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
April 24, 2020, 6:57 am
Bloomberg puts up $10 million for coronavirus contact tracing program
Former New York City mayor to bankroll program to monitor virus spread in New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut, with researchers from Johns Hopkins University
By Marcy Oster
Fox News host Raymond Arroyo says Michael Bloomberg will be a 'puppet master' for Joe Biden, March 5, 2020 (Screen grab Fox News via The Daily Beast)
March 9, 2020, 10:48 am
ADL slams Fox News host for using ‘anti-Semitic trope’ to describe Bloomberg
Watchdog criticizes anchor who called former Democratic candidate a ‘puppet master,’ saying it plays into canards about Jewish power and money
By Marcy Oster
Supporters along with two US based officials for the Mike Bloomberg campaign gather on March 3, 2020, in Tafuna village near Pago Pago, American Samoa (AP Photo/Fili Sagapolutele)
March 6, 2020, 11:44 am
Bloomberg’s hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific
Candidate’s lone primary victory in American Samoa, beating even local-born Tulsi Gabbard, was an unorthodox and inauspicious culmination to a much-hyped but short-lived campaign
By Michelle L. Price and FILI SAGAPOLUTELE
In this March 3, 2020 photo, Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg in the Little Havana neighborhood, in Miami. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
March 4, 2020, 5:46 pm
Bloomberg drops out of primary race, endorses Biden
Former NYC mayor who spent hundreds of millions on unprecedented ad campaign quits after dismal showing in primaries, as race effectively whittled down to Biden versus Sanders
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and Alexandra Jaffe
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