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He was the head of Christians United for Israel. Now he’s running as a Jewish candidate for Congress
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David Brog, a former executive for the largest pro-Israel evangelical group, is seeking to return to Capitol Hill, close to 20 years after serving on Capitol Hill as a Senate staffer to Sen. Arlen Specter. To do that he will need to win a crowded Republican primary in Las Vegas in a party dominated by Donald Trump.

Brog, who is Jewish, describes himself as an economic nationalist and a believer in Trump’s America First policy agenda, but with a history of working across the aisle to pass key legislation and to foster bipartisan support for Israel. He served for close to a decade as executive director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a Texas-based evangelical pro-Israel group.
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Brog has received the backing of former Trump administration officials David Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Elan Carr, the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, who co-hosted a virtual fundraiser for him last week. The National Republican Congressional Committee placed him on their list of seats it hopes to pick up in the midterm elections.
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Brog was born and raised in Margate City, outside of Atlantic City in New Jersey, to secular parents. His father, Eugene, went to Temple Beth El synagogue only twice a year – on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Eugene’s parents were immigrants from Poland and Lithuania
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Brog spent a few years in Israel working for a law firm – Meitar, Littman Nechmad (now Meitar Law Offices) – which specializes in commercial law and hi-tech.

Brog discovered that he was a third cousin of Ehud Barak, the former prime minister of Israel, in the late 1990s.
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Leading America’s largest pro-Israel group

After serving as policy director during Specter’s short presidential campaign in 1996, as well as the senator’s chief counsel and chief of staff, Brog wrote a book “Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support Israel,” which was based on his experience traveling through central Pennsylvania and meeting evangelical Christians. In the process of writing the book, Brog visited pro-Israel churches across the country and listened to a series of speeches given by Pastor John Hagee, a televangelist and founder of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas.

Brog became friends with Hagee, who asked for his help in launching Christians United For Israel (CUFI). Brog saw it as an opportunity to change the way Israel was being perceived in Congress as merely a Jewish issue and broaden the base of support for Israel.
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In July 2015, Brog left CUFI and was tapped to head a new group called the Maccabee Task Force, an initiative launched by the late Sheldon Adelson and Israeli-American media magnate Haim Saban, to combat antisemitism on college campuses. Brog said Adelson was determined to provide students with the support and resources they need to fight antisemitism and took it on as a personal project.
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Brog said that he brings a lifetime of dedication and a depth of knowledge to lead on pro-Israel causes. “I don’t just want to be a friend of Israel,” he said. “I want to be a leader on Israel and a champion of Israel.”
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Brog said he’s not actively seeking Trump’s endorsement in the primary, but would welcome it if given. He said he supports Trump’s policies and credits him for bringing the Republican party in the direction he wanted to see it