L. Marc Zell (; born February 25, 1953) is an American-Israeli lawyer, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel and a vice president of Republicans Overseas, Inc.

Early life

Marc Zell was born February 25, 1953. He earned an A.B. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in Germanic Languages and Literature with a concentration in theoretical linguistics, in 1974, then graduated magna cum laude from the

University of Maryland at Baltimore The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is a public university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1807, it is the second oldest college in Maryland and comprises some of the oldest professional schools of dentistry, law, me ...

with a J.D., in 1977.

Career

After clerking at the Maryland Court of Appeals for a year (1977–1978), Zell joined ''Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman'' as an associate (1978–1981). In 1986, he formed the law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C. with

Douglas Feith Douglas Jay Feith (; born July 16, 1953) is an American lawyer who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. Feith has been descri ...

, who later served as

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for Policy, from 2001 to 2005. After Douglas Feith left law practice to work at the Pentagon in 2001; Zell partnered with Bernel Goldberg to form Zell, Goldberg & Co., with offices in

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and

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, and affiliate offices in

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, Russia and Europe. In 2003, he joined the Iraqi International Law Group, the first international law firm in Iraq, and is currently a partner in the multinational law firm of Zell, Aron & Co. in Jerusalem, Israel, with branches offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is currently the chairman of the Executive Committee of Ariel University in Samaria.

Political views

In August 2017, Zell condemned counter-protesters at a gathering of hundreds of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zell blamed the counter-protesters for the violence at the gathering, stating that they represented the "ugly face of progressivism".

Personal life

In the 1980s, Zell developed an interest in

Zionism Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the ...

and, after a series of visits to Israel, moved his family, in 1988, to the

Israeli settlement Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories. They are populated by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Israeli Jews, Jewish identity or ethni ...

Alon Shvut Alon Shvut () is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, established in June 1970 over lands confiscated from the nearby State of Palestine, Palestinian town of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah. It is part of the Gush Etzion, Etzion bloc of the West Ban ...

in the

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. Since 2016, he lives in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa. He supported

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for President of the United States in 2016.

References

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