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Zalman Shoval

Zalman Shoval is head of the Likud Party Foreign Policy Bureau and a former Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Shoval served as an adviser on foreign policy issues to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He is also the chairman of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Institute for Policy and Strategy. From 1990 to 1993, and again from 1998 to 2000, he served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. He is currently president of the Israel-American Chamber of CommerceZalman Shoval, Leadership and Staff, Council on Foreign Relations, Accessed 25-August-2009.
==Affiliations==
Likud Party | Ariel Sharon | Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya | Israel-American Chamber of Commerce | Council on Foreign Relations
==Notes==
Shoval, ZalmanShoval, ZalmanShoval, Zalman
Zameer Choudrey

Zameer Choudrey is the chief executive of wholesale cash and carry and pharmacy company Bestway.
==Career==
Choudrey joined Bestway in 1984 as financial controller, playing a key role in their expansion through the acquisition of a number of competitors. In 1987 he was appointed managing director, finance director in 1990 and chief executive of Bestway Cement in 1995. Following the acquisition of United Bank Limited (UBL), Choudrey was appointed to the board of UBL - where he also served as chairman of the board audit committee and director of UBL insurers. 
In 2004 he was promoted to the position of chief executive of Bestway Group. Bestway Board of directors, accessed 1 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Choudrey was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 1 April 2015.
==HSBC 2015 tax avoidance scandal==
In the wake of the HSBC Swiss tax avoidance scandal, it was revealed that Bestway owner Sir Anwar Pervez and every other director on the companies eight-member board were linked with Swiss accounts. Pervez said HM Revenue and Customs were 'aware of these accounts and trusts and all directors were tax compliant'. David Leigh, James Ball, Juliette Garside and David Pegg HSBC files show Tories raised over £5m from HSBC Swiss account holders The Guardian, 11 February 2015, accessed 1 April 2015.
==Education==
*University of Kent
==Affiliations==
*The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, fellow
*The Leader's Group
==Political donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission: Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 April 2015.
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
13/01/2012
Zameer Choudrey	
£2,500.00
Conservative Party
Beaconsfield
==Notes==
Choudrey, ZameerChoudrey, Zameer
Ze'ev Elkin

[[File:Screenshot 2022-02-03 at 15.58.43.png|200px|thumb|right|[]Ze'ev Elkin]]
==Background==
Ze’ev Elkin is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud. Ze’ev Elkin, jewishvirtuallibrary.org, archived on 3 February 2022 at https://archive.ph/wip/D42RF 
==Education==
He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a BA in history and mathematics in 1994 and an MA in history in the same year. 
==Career==
Elkin was elected to the 17th Knesset in 2006 as a member of Kadima before switching to Likud in 2009. He was subsequently re-elected again in 2013. 
He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between March 2013 and June 2014, and then became Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
In 2015, after the elections, he was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Strategic Affairs in the new government. The latter he held for 11 days when Netanyahu appointed Gilad Erdan Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs, and Public Diplomacy.
He was given the position of Minister of Jerusalem Affairs portfolio as compensation.
On May 30, 2016, Elkin lost the portfolio of Minister of Immigrant Absorption to Sofa Landver of Yisrael Beiteinu. However, on August 1, 2016, he was appointed Minister of Environmental Protection, succeeding Avi Gabbay.
He was re-elected to the Knesset in April 2019, September 2019, and March 2020. In May 2020 he was appointed to the newly created posts of Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Water Resources in the new government.
Elkin resigned from the government as Minister of Water Resources and Higher Education and left Likud in 2021 to join Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party.
==Notes==
Zeev Chaim Remez

Zeev Remez (DoB 4 January 1956) is a trusteeCompanies in the UK Remez, Zeev. Accessed 6 September 2014.of UK Friends of AWIS The UK offshoot of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers - an organisation established in 1942 by David Ben-Gurion. He has held this position since 20th October 2000. He is also a director of the trading arm of the organisation, UK AWIS Trading Limited. He is an Israeli national. He is also a director of the following companies:
:E.C. Datacom Limited
:UK AWIS Trading Limited
==Notes==
Category:Israel
Zeev Livne

Major General Zeev Livne (Res.) is an advisor to MM~Law. General Livne served for over 40 years in the Israel Defense Force. His senior command positions included: IDF Defense Attaché to the USA and to Canada; Military Secretary to the Prime Minister of Israel; Commander of Ground Forces; Founder and first Commander of Home Front Command; Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations; Armor Division Commander.Advisors, MM~Law, accessed 15 July 2013.
==Notes==
Livne, Zeev
Zeinab Badawi

:11 October 2004 The Prime Minister has appointed Zeinab Badawi as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery for a term of four years from 11 October 2004.
:Biographical Notes 
:Zeinab Badawi joined Yorkshire TV in 1982 as a researcher and reporter, was co-anchor of Channel 4 News, and has worked extensively abroad as a reporter in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She is currently working for the BBC in radio and television. Zeinab Badawi is Chair of the Africa Medical Partnership, AfriMed; a board member of the British Council; a trustee of the BBC World Service Trust; a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Contemporary British History; a member of the Public Diplomacy Strategy Board (FCO committee); and a Vice-President of the United Nations Association. 
:Zeinab Badawi holds no other public appointments and has not carried out any political activity in the last five years. 
==Affiliations==
*Foreign Policy Centre Advisory Council
Zena Elmahrouki

Zena Elmahrouki was given the role of chief speech writer to the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the Cabinet Office in November 2010. Andrew Porter David Cameron's China trade trip eclipsed by 'vanity staff' row The Telegraph, 9 November 2010, accessed 14 October 2014 Zena was Mr Clegg's former deputy speech-writer. Can Clegg and Cameron patch up coalition cracks? The Independent, 7 November 2010, accessed 14 October 2014 
==Notes==
Elmahrouki, Zena
Zeno

Zeno is a PR firm owned by Edelman formerly known as PR21.
Among its clients are British Nuclear Fuels Limited
==People==
*Jerry A. Epstein President and Chief Executive Officer 
*Sue Ryan Chief Executive Zeno Europe 
*Phil Armstrong Managing Director and Corporate Public Affairs Lead 
*John Berard Managing Director & Technology Lead 
*Bridget Brennan Managing Director & Consumer Marketing Lead 
*Sheldon Lamphier Managing Director, Human Resources 
*Lisa Robinson Managing Director & Head Creative 
*Hiroshi Wald Managing Director, Research 
*Charlotte Wray Managing Director & Health Care Lead
==Advisory Board==
Zeno claims to have an Advisory Board, and has this to say about it on its website:
:ZENO approaches each assignment seeking to build the right program to solve a problem, leverage an opportunity or otherwise gain market advantage. To support the capabilities of our staff, we have created an advisory board of industry and communications experts who play important roles on our delivery teams.
:Former biotech executives who understand the necessary dance of drug development and federal oversight, academics who track the leading edge of consumer behavior, financiers who help assess and guide capital formation, non-profit leaders who provide issues insight, and researchers who can get behind the numbers are all part of our team.
However, Zeno neglects to name any of the members of the board.
Website: http://www.pr21.com/default_flash.aspx
Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms
Zentralverband der Deutschen Werbewirtschaft

The German Advertising Association or in German: Zentralverband der Deutschen Werbewirtschaft (ZAW) was founded in 1949, the organisation is fairly unusual as it unites all of the various groups operating within advertising within one single organisation. 
Members are not individual companies but the various organisations that represent advertisers or those who develop, design, carry out and arrange advertising. The 40 organisations which make up the ZAW today are subdivided into the following four areas: Advertisers (9), Agencies (1), Media and production companies (23), Professionals as well as market and social research (7).
== Affiliations ==
*Advertising Information Group
== Notes ==
#Advertising Information Group Website List of Members Last Accessed 28th June 2007
Zetland Group

The Zetland Group was previously known as Petroleum Safety Services Limited and rebranded in 2016. It was founded by its managing director Jonathan Foster in 2006.
Zetland successfully secured planning consent on behalf of Third Energy UK Gas on 27 May 2016 for the proposed Kirby Misperton shale gas site following the North Yorkshire County Council planning committee meeting held from 20-23 May 2016. Zetland Group, KM8 HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION PLANNING APPLICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS, company website, accessed 8 January 2018 
Category:Fracking
==People==
*Jonathan Foster
==Affiliations==
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas former member as Petroleum Safety Services.
*Mercury Group
==Notes==
Category:Fracking
Zia Atabay

Zia Atabay is an Iranian exile assisting the US government with its campaign for regime change in Iran. He is the founder of Los Angeles-based NITV BBC Monitor Guide to Iranian Media and Broadcasts to Iran - March 2007 Last accessed May 1st . NITV is no longer broadcasting after running into financial difficulties in 2006. Some of the stations programs are now broadcast on Channel One TV. Atabay a former Iranian rockstar founded and managed the station which he founded in 2000. NITV a Farsi language channel Fighting The War of Ideas Like a Real War, The War of Ideas Last accessed May 1st 2008 , was credited by the U.S. press for encouraging street protests in Tehran after the 9/11 attacks in New York. The station is also credited with encouraging the student protests of 2003.
==References==
Zimbabwe Democracy Trust

An organisation based in Washington DC and run by a member of the British House of Lords with financial interests in Southern Africa, Robin Renwick. Renwick is also on the board of spy firm Hakluyt.
Web: http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org/
:According to ZDT literature, the organisation 'has the simplest of goals: to help the democratic will of the people flourish'. But The Observer can reveal that several of the patrons of the newly formed trust are directors of companies which have substantial commercial interests at stake in Zimbabwe. ZDT keeps its membership secret for fear of reprisals from the Mugabe regime, but The Observer has discovered that they largely come from the white business community in Zimbabwe.(...)
:The driving force behind ZDT is Sir John Collins, the Zimbabwean Chairman of National Power, Britain's largest energy company, who organised a letter to the Times, published in April, calling for free elections. He did not say his company had substantial interests in Zimbabwe; in 1998 National Power won a $1.5 billion contract to develop a power station in the country. 
:Sir Malcolm Rifkind has a long-standing connection to the country where he worked as a lecturer prior to independence. He works for the Australian mining company Broken Hill Proprietary which has been involved in a wrangle with the Mugabe government over a mine in Zimbabwe. 
:Former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Dr Chester Crocker is another patron - a director of Ashanti Gold Fields, which owns Zimbabwe's largest gold mine. When approached by The Observer, he said: 'I have nothing personally to gain from supporting the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust. They were reaching out for like-minded people and I am like-minded.' 
:Lord Hurd, who has no known interests in Zimbabwe, said that the patrons of ZDT were aware that some people would accuse the organisation of neo-colonialism: 'The risk was in our minds when we decided to proceed, but we are not going to just sit with sticking plaster on our mouths. If anybody chooses to make xenophobic and racist comments about what we are doing, then so be it.'
Zionist Council of Israel

According to the report from the 2008 Herzliya Conference (of which The Zionist Council in Israel was a 'cooperating organization'), The Zionist Council in Israel is associated with The Zionist Association of Israel which is described as:
:'an Israeli Zionist movement and an arm of the World Zionist Congress in Israel. The mission of the Israel Zionist Association is to strengthen the Jewish-Zionist identity of Israel. The thrust of its activities deals with the leadership development and involvement of youth in social and Zionist action. The Zionist Association includes a National Youth Organization called ‘Tzameret’, which prepares youth for the army, offers Zionist education workshops, seminars, panel discussions and educational forums which take place in numerous schools throughout the country'The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12th August 2008.
==References==
Category:Israel Lobby
Zionist Year Book

The Zionist Year Book, was produced by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland from October 1951 to 1988.'Britain' American Jewish Yearbook 1953, p. 238University of Cambridge Zionist Year Book, Newton Library Catalogue. The first editor was Arthur Saul Super, who at that stage was also the editor of the Zionist Review.Zionist Review, 3 August 1951, p. 8
==Letter bombs==
In 1972 the New York Times reported that recipients of letter bombs in the UK included those listed in the Zionist Year Book:
:British Home Secretary Carr... says 19 letters with explosive devices have been sent to Jews and Jewish-owned businesses since Nov 10; British police suspect that Arab terrorist Black September organisation is involved in letter-bomb threat; letters and parcels were addressed to Jews who had signed pro-Israel ads or had listed their companies in Zionist Yearbook; Scotland Yard Commander Robert Mark warns that bombs could turn up in parcels as well as lettersNEW YORK TIMES November 14, 1972, Tuesday Page 9, Column 1
==Editors==
*1951/2, 1952 Arthur Saul Super
*1953, 1955, 1956, 1962-63, 1966-67 Rabbi Dr. Joseph Litvin
*1967-68, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976 Shaindy Mason
*1977, 1980 Jane MoonmanJane Moonman, ‘Letter: Medical Care and Military Occupation’, The Lancet, Volume 2, Issue 8516, pp.1160-1160, 15 November 1986
*1985 Merle B Kessler
==Notes==
Category: Israel
Category:Zionist movement UK
Zionist Youth Council (UK)

Zionist Youth Council says it 'is the collective voice of the UK & Ireland's largest Jewish youth movements.'The Zionist Youth Council.
==Members==
*B'nei Akiva: www.bauk.org
*BBYO: www.bbyo.org.uk
*FZY: www.fzy.org.uk
*Habonim Dror: www.habodror.org.uk
*Hanoar Hatzioni: www.hanoar.co.uk
*JLGB: www.jlgb.org
*LJY-Netzer: www.ljy.org.uk
*Noam: www.masortiyouth.org/noam
*RSY-Netzer: www.rsy.org.uk
==Notes==
Category:Zionist movement UK
Zionist movement Italy

==Groups==
Associazione Amici d’Israele | Cristiani per Israele – Italia | Federazione delle Associazioni Italia-Israele | Federazione Sionistica Italiana | Keren Hayesod - Appello Unificato per Israele | Keren Kayemeth Leisrael Italia
==Resources==
*https://www.nuovopci.it/dfa/lista_sionisti/Lista_agenti_sionisti.html
*List of agents of the Zionist Entity in Italy and their collaborators – updated to 18.09.2024
==Notyes==
Category:Zionist movement Italy Category:Zionist movement
Ziv Nevo Kulman

Ziv Nevo Kulman is a diplomat responsible for cultural affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Paris.Informations générales: Les diplomates, Ambassade d'Israel en France, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2010. 
He was formerly Deputy Chief of Mission in Prague.Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009.
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009
==Notes==
 
Kulman, ZivKulman, ZivKulman, Ziv
Zmira Lavi

Lt. Colonel Zmira Lavi is a consultant to MM~Law. She previously served in the IDF Intelligence Corps for 26 years. Her senior command positions include head of technological cooperation at the External Relations Department, Directorate of Military Intelligence; Head of the Palestinian research and analysis section at the Military Intelligence Research and Analysis Division; and a variety of professional intelligence positions in the central intelligence collection unit (Sigint unit). She currently serves as senior researcher and coordinator at The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (a research institute focusing on terrorism and intelligence subordinate to the Ministry of Defense).Consultants, MM~Law, accessed 15 July 2013. 
She has a BA in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic language and literature from Tel Aviv University, and has completed the Senior Intelligence course, Israeli Military Intelligence.Consultants, MM~Law, accessed 15 July 2013.
==Notes==
Lavi, ZmiraLavi, Zmira
Zoe Baird

Zoë Baird, Clinton's first nominee to the Justice Department is "president of the Markle Foundation, a private philanthropy that focuses on using information and communications technologies to address critical public needs. Ms. Baird's career spans business, government and academia. She has been senior vice president and general counsel of Aetna, Inc., a senior visiting scholar at Yale Law School, counselor and staff executive at General Electric, and a partner in the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. She was associate counsel to President James Earl Carter, Jr. and an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. She served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1993 to 2001 and on the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General."
Trustee of Save the Children USA.
==External links==
*Jill Smolowe, "Time Capsule / February 1, 1993", Time, January 22, 2001.
==Notes==
Zoe Thorogood

Zoe Thorogood was a special adviser at the Department for Communities and Local Government for Eric Pickles from January 2013 to May 2015. John Owens Eric Pickles lines up Zoe Thorogood as special adviser, PR Week, 28.01.2013, accessed 19 September. Pickles appointed Thorogood to focus on media, she replaced Pickles' previous special adviser Giles Kenningham, who was drafted in to head up communication at the Conservative campaign headquarters. 
As special adviser to Pickles, Thorogood was paid an annual salary of £64,500. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 29 April 2015 
==Background==
Thorogood previously worked at Luther Pendragon as associate director, where she focused on global communications strategy. Zoe Thorogood LinkedIn profile, accessed 19 September 2014. 
Between 2008 and 2011, Thorogood was head of broadcasting for the Conservative Party post 2010 General Election and was also deputy head of broadcasting during the winning election campaign. 
In 2003 Thorogood took on the role as a news editor at GMTV, a job at which she worked for five years. 
==Notes==
Thorogood, Zoe Thorogood, ZoeThorogood, Zoe Thorogood, Zoe
Zoltán Precsenyi

Zoltán Precsenyi is a former assistant to Hungarian MEP Edit Herczog. Precsenyi joined the Communications/ Public Affairs team of the industry group European Aluminium Association (EAA) in January 2007Public Affairs News, February 2008, p.12.. As of 2011 he is a member of Symantec's European Government Affairs team, based in Brussels.International Cyber Centre. Workshops, 2011 W.Prescenyi May 20 2011. Accessed 07/02/2012
==Biography==
According to a Symantec bio:
:Zoltán Précsényi is a member of Symantec’s European Government Affairs team, based in Brussels. He is primarily responsible of representing Symantec before EU and national legislative bodies, government departments, authorities and international organizations. Before joining Symantec, Précsényi worked as public affairs manager for the European Aluminium Association, with a focus on European policy and law making in the areas of competitiveness, sustainability, industrial policy and standardization. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2007, he was advisor to a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, mostly active in a variety of policy areas including transatlantic relations, innovation, intellectual property, and ICT. Précsényi holds a masters law degree from the University of Paris II Assas, and is fluent in Hungarian, French and English.International Cyber Centre. Workshops, 2011 W.Prescenyi May 20 2011. Accessed 07/02/2012
==Background==
The European Aluminium Association (EAA), as explained on European Energy Forum website, "represents the aluminium industry in Europe, encompassing primary aluminium producers, downstream manufacturers, producers of recycled aluminium and national aluminium associations."European Energy Forum, European Aluminium Association, accessed 17 March 2010.
==Affiliations==
*European Parliament, assistant to MEP Edit Herczog
*European Aluminium Association (EAA), communications and public affairs (2007-presentMarch 2010)
*SymantecInternational Cyber Centre. Workshops, 2011 W.Prescenyi May 20 2011. Accessed 07/02/2012
==Resources==
*European Energy Forum, European Aluminium Association, accessed 17 March 2010.
*Public Affairs News, February 2008, p.12.
==Notes==
Precsenyi, Zoltán
Precsenyi, Zoltán
Precsenyi, Zoltán
Zurich Financial Services

Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) is a very large financial services company, specialising in insurance and asset management (through Scudder Kemper Investments and Threadneedle Asset Management they manage "assets" worth more than $442 billion). They are the third largest insurer in Europe. They gave more than £5,000 in sponsorship to the Labour Party in 1999-2000 and spent more than £5,000 on "Tickets for Dinners" in 2000-2001.
The chief executive of Zurich Financial Services is Alexander P. "Sandy" Leitch, who was appointed as head of the New Deal Task Force in September 2000, shortly before the UK Labour Party conference. He was previously a Director of BAT industries, the tobacco company, and Chief Executive of its financial services division, BAFS. This involved acting as Chairman of Allied Dunbar, Eagle Star and Threadneedle Asset Management, all of which merged with Zurich Insurance to form ZFS in 1998. He was chair of the Association of British Insurers from 1998-2000 and is a director of Allied Zurich plc. He was paid £1,003,000 in 1997.
==Lobbying firms retained==
*MHP Communications
==Affiliations==
*Global Business Network
==Notes==
Category:Financial sector lobbying