Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ranked number 21 on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people, which was toped by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
When it comes to holding the reigns of power, it pays to be the head of Facebook or the Grand Ayatollah of Iran rather than the head of the Jewish state.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ranked number 21 on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people, which was toped by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It’s a powerful spot for the leader of a small country of eight million people. Still Forbes did not consider him to be as powerful as German Chancellor Angela Merkel who ranked second. US President Barack Obama was in third place and Pope Francis in fourth.
Netanyahu also feel behind Google CEO Larry Page who was ranked number 10, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg who was number 19 and Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei who was 20th on the list.
Absent from the list all together were Iranian President Hasan Rouhani and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
When to world leaders, Netanyahu was listed as the 11th most power head of state. He is the only Israeli on the list, but not the only Jewish person among the world’s power brokers.
Other Jews included: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellin at number 7, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein at number 26, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at number 30, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at 44.
Yellin is also only one of nine woman who are on the list of 73 of the most powerful people.
As reported by The Jerusalem Post