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Gadi Eisenkot
Gadi Eisenkot, born in Tiberias in 1960, led the IDF from 2015 to 2019, published its first formal strategy, then founded the Yashar party to run against Netanyahu.
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Amy Acton
Amy Acton, the physician who led the Ohio Department of Health into COVID-19, quit in 2020 and became the 2026 Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences in 2014, ran for president in 2024, briefly co-led DOGE, and is the 2026 Republican nominee for governor of Ohio.
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Helen Haines
Helen Haines, the rural midwife who followed Cathy McGowan as independent MP for Indi, was critically injured outside her Wangaratta office in October 2026.
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Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed rebuilt Detroit's health department, ran Wayne County's, and is the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan on November 3, 2026.
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Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House press secretary at 27, served from January 2025 to August 2026, then left for Fox News and New Hampshire.
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Katie Zacharia
Katie Zacharia, a Pepperdine-trained lawyer and former DHS spokesperson, became White House press secretary in October 2026 after Karoline Leavitt left.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former prosecutor and Fox News host, on her Trump fundraising years, her post as ambassador to Greece and her October 2026 resignation.
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Navi Pillay
Navi Pillay, the Durban lawyer who sat on the Rwanda tribunal and ran the UN human rights office, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. How she got there.
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Edwina Currie
Edwina Currie sat for South Derbyshire from 1983 to 1997, resigned as a health minister over salmonella in eggs, and wrote the diaries that named John Major.
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