2025-06-24 11:43 <br/> Tags: #organization #Network #AmericanJewry # Sonneborn Institute - Secret network was organized in 1945 by [[Rudolf Sonneborn]] and [[David Ben-Gurion]] in the United States. - The network was comprised of wealthy Jews, business owners, American Jewish Gangsters, and Israeli spies. - The network funneled money and arms to the [[Haganah]] in preparation for the [[1948 Arab Israeli War]]. - In the 1950s and 1960s, the Sonneborn network was closely involved in funding the clandestine [[Israel and the Nuclear Bomb|Israeli nuclear project]]. - The network was active in the United States in the years after WWII, preceding the [[1948 Arab Israeli War]]. - [[Abraham Feinberg]] the Zionist financier and Democrat megadonor, was involved with the Sonneborn Institute. He acted as chairman, responsible for the disbursement of funds. - [[Eliezer Kaplan]] and [[Abba Eban]], both high profile figures at the [[Jewish Agency]], were present at the founding meeting of the Sonneborn Institute.[^1] - Kaplan was Israel's first finance minister under Ben-Gurion and eventually deputy prime minister in 1952. - Eban was a highly prominent Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to the United States, foreign affairs minister, and deputy prime minister of Israel. #### Recommended Reading - Against Our Better Judgement - Alison Weir #### References - **“Rudolf Sonneborn.”** _Wikipedia_. Last modified **22 July 2025**, 15:38 UTC. Accessed **24 June 2025**. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sonneborn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sonneborn). - **“Israel Bonds: The FBI File,”** _Israel Lobby Archive_, accessed August 14, 2025, [https://www.israellobby.org/israel_bonds/default.asp](https://www.israellobby.org/israel_bonds/default.asp). - Weir, Alison. _Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel_. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. - _“Abraham ‘Abe’ Feinberg – FBI File.”_ Accessed August 14, 2025. **The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy**, [https://www.israellobby.org/Feinberg/](https://www.israellobby.org/Feinberg/). [^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, memorandum regarding Leonard Slater’s _The Pledge_, memorandum to James L. Weldon Jr., Chief, Registration Section, September 17, 1970, [https://www.israellobby.org/slater/09171970_DOJ_Pledge.pdf](https://www.israellobby.org/slater/09171970_DOJ_Pledge.pdf).