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Rahm Israel Emanuel (/rɑːm/; born November 29, 1959)[1] is an American politician and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Japan since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 55th Mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019 and the 23rd White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois between 2003 and 2009. . .
Emanuel's paternal grandfather was a Moldovan Jew who emigrated from Bessarabia.[8] The surname Emanuel (Hebrew: עמנואל), which means "God is with us", was adopted by their family in honor of Rahm's uncle (his father's brother) Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem.[9][10]
Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a Jerusalem-born[11] pediatrician at Michael Reese Hospital[12] who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in British Mandate Palestine.[13] His mother, Marsha (née Smulevitz), is the daughter of a West Side Chicago union organizer who worked in the civil rights movement. She briefly owned a local rock and roll club,[9][14] and later became an adherent of Benjamin Spock's writings. - - As of 04/24/2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
