Trump son-in-law and envoy; called Gaza 'valuable waterfront property'
Founder, Affinity Partners · Person · United States · in office since Feb 19, 2026
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser in 2017–2021, runs the Miami private equity firm Affinity Partners. Forbes puts his net worth at $1B (28 Sep 2026). Affinity managed more than $5.4B by September 2025, after raising $4.6B mainly from the Saudi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds, including $2B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund six months after he left office. He brokered the 2020 Abraham Accords and has longstanding personal and family ties to Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2024 he called Gaza 'valuable waterfront property', proposing Palestinians be moved to the Negev or Egypt while the territory was 'cleaned up' so Israel could 'finish the job'; rights groups called it advocacy of forced displacement. A real-estate pitch, with the residents listed as debris. He sat on the national board of Friends of the IDF until about January 2017. Byline Times argued in October 2025 that pro-Trump tech billionaires were poised to cash in on the Gaza 'peace' deal Kushner helped shape.
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He also served in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021.
Jared Kushner's name has been scrubbed from the national board of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, apparently following questions from the press about his continued involvement in the group.