Editing AIPAC (section)

==Prominent officers and supporters==
Elliot Brandt was named CEO of AIPAC starting in late 2024.<ref name="ToI-2024-06-05">{{Cite news |date=June 5, 2024 |title=AIPAC names Elliot Brandt as next CEO amid uncertain future for US-Israel relations |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/aipac-names-elliot-brandt-as-next-ceo-amid-uncertain-future-for-us-israel-relations/ |access-date=2025-04-22 |work=The Times of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref> Brandt succeeded Howard Kohr, who had been the CEO of AIPAC since 1996.<ref name=Kohr>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jpost.com/50-most-influential-jews/32-howard-kohr-565501|title=32. Howard Kohr|series=The Jerusalem Post’s 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021|journal=The Jerusalem Post|date=September 9, 2018|first=Jeremy|last=Sharon|access-date=May 11, 2022}}</ref>

===Presidents===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ AIPAC presidents
|-
! President !! Date range !! Short bio
|-
| Robert Asher || 1962–1964 || Lighting-fixtures dealer in Chicago
|-
| [[Larry Weinberg]] || 1976–1982<ref>{{cite press release|title=In Memoriam: AIPAC Trailblazer Larry Weinberg |url=https://www.aipac.org/resources/in-memoriam-aipac-trailblazer-larry-weinberg |publisher=AIPAC}}</ref> || Real-estate broker in Los Angeles and a former owner of the [[Portland Trail Blazers]]
|-
| Edward Levy Jr. || Ended 1988<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Howard |title=Reported Shake-ups at Aipac Put Lobby Back in the Headlines |url=https://www.jta.org/1988/12/22/archive/reported-shake-ups-at-aipac-put-lobby-back-in-the-headlines |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=December 22, 1988}}</ref> || Building-supplies executive in Detroit
|-
| [[Mayer "Bubba" Mitchell]] || 1990–1992<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hoffman |first1=Roy |title=Mitchell 'lived the American dream' |url=https://www.al.com/live/2007/09/mitchell_lived_the_american_dr.html |access-date=14 June 2021 |work=Alabama.com |date=September 27, 2007 |language=en}}</ref> ||  Real estate developer in Mobile, Alabama
|-
| [[David Steiner (AIPAC)|David Steiner]] || Resigned 1992<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mann |first1=Cynthia |title=Aipac President Quits After Boasting of Influence over Baker and Clinton |url=https://www.jta.org/1992/11/05/archive/aipac-president-quits-after-boasting-of-influence-over-baker-and-clinton |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=November 5, 1992}}</ref> || Construction and real estate executive
|-
| [[Steven Grossman (political operative)|Steven Grossman]]|| 1992–1996<ref>{{cite news |title=AIPACs Steve Grossman takes Democratic Party post |url=https://www.jweekly.com/1997/01/17/aipac-s-steve-grossman-takes-democratic-party-post/ |work=jweekly |date=1997-01-17}}</ref>|| Communications executive and former Democratic Party chairman
|-
| [[Melvin Dow]]|| Started 1996<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Neil A. |title=Court Again Casts Doubt On Status of Israeli Lobby |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/10/us/court-again-casts-doubt-on-status-of-israeli-lobby.html |work=The New York Times |date=December 10, 1996}}</ref>|| Houston attorney
|-
| [[Lonny Kaplan]]|| 1998–2000<ref>{{cite web |last1=Orland |first1=Max |title=Lionel (Lonny) Kaplan |url=https://orlandsmemorialchapel.com/lionel-lonny-kaplan/ |publisher=Funeral Home Orlands Memorial Chapel Ewing New Jersey |date=June 3, 2017}}</ref>|| New Jersey insurance executive
|-
| [[Tim Wuliger]]|| Ended 2001<ref>{{cite news |title=Arafat, intifada giving AIPAC new direction |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2001/03/23/arafat-intifada-giving-aipac-new-direction/ |work=jweekly |date=March 23, 2001}}</ref>|| Cleveland investor
|-
| [[Amy Friedkin]] || 2002–2004<ref>{{cite web |title=An Interview with Amy Friedkin |url=https://theicenter.org/voice/interview-amy-friedkin |publisher=The iCenter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420070827/https://theicenter.org/voice/interview-amy-friedkin |archive-date=April 20, 2017 |date=March 1, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=TF />|| San Francisco, active in grassroots Jewish organisations
|-
| [[Bernice Manocherian]]|| 2004–2006<ref name=TF>{{cite news |title=AIPAC To Appoint First Woman President in Over a Decade |url=https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/336458/aipac-to-appoint-first-woman-president-in-over-a-decade/ |access-date=15 June 2021 |work=JTA |publisher=The Forward |date=March 20, 2016}}</ref>|| 
|-
| Howard Friedman|| 2006–2010<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard E. Friedman Director Biography |url=https://sbgi.net/people/howard-e-friedman/ |website=Sinclair Broadcast Group |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>|| 
|-
| Lillian Pinkus || Started 2016<ref name=TF /> || 
|-
| Betsy Berns Korn || 2020–present<ref name="TimesOfIsrael-2019-03-25">{{Cite news |last=Kampeas |first=Ron |date=March 25, 2019 |title=AIPAC names 'female football fan' entrepreneur next president of lobby |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/aipac-names-female-football-fan-entrepreneur-next-president-of-lobby/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |work=[[The Times of Israel|Times of Israel]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Tabachnick |first1=Toby |last2=Kampeas |first2=Ron |date=March 4, 2020 |title=Question of bipartisanship dominated AIPAC Policy Conference |url=https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/question-of-bipartisanship-dominated-aipac-policy-conference/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |magazine=[[Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle]] |language=en-US |quote=Betsy Berns Korn, the newly installed president of AIPAC, took the podium Sunday night....}}</ref> || Former AIPAC vice president and former [[National Football League|NFL]] employee
|}

===Supporters===
{{Update inline|date=December 2024}}AIPAC has a wide base of supporters both in and outside of Congress.
*Support among congressional members includes a majority of members of both the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Parties. According to AIPAC, the annual Policy Conference is second only to the [[State of the Union]] address for the number of Federal officials in attendance at an organized event.<ref name="milbank1">{{cite news|last1=Milbank|first1=Dana|title=AIPAC's Big, Bigger, Biggest Moment|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/23/AR2005052301565.html|access-date=November 25, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 24, 2005}}</ref><ref name="bruck1">{{cite news|last1=Bruck|first1=Connie|title=Friends of Israel|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel|access-date=November 25, 2016|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 1, 2014}}</ref>