Morton Klein

About Morton Klein

Morton A. "Mort" Klein (born 1947) is a German-born American economist, statistician, and pro-Israel activist. He is the president of the Zionist Organization of America. In 2004, The Forward named him as one of the fifty most influential Jewish leaders in the United States. Klein is a published academic, having served as a lecturer at Temple University and as a biostatistician at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the Linus Pauling Institute.