Marc Zell

Marc Zell was born February 25, 1953. He earned an A.B. from Princeton University in Germanic Languages and Literature with a concentration in theoretical linguistics, in 1974, then graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a J.D., in 1977.^[1]

After clerking at the Maryland Court of Appeals for a year (1977–1978), Zell joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman as an associate (1978–1981). In 1986, he formed the law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C. with Douglas Feith, who later served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, from 2001 to 2005.^[2]

After Douglas Feith left law practice to work at the Pentagon in 2001; Zell partnered with Bernel Goldberg to form Zell, Goldberg & Co., with offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and affiliate offices in Washington, DC, Russia and Europe.^[2]

In 2003, he joined the Iraqi International Law Group, the first international law firm in Iraq,^[3] and is currently a partner in the multinational law firm of Zell, Aron & Co. in Jerusalem, Israel, with branches offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is currently the chairman of the Executive Committee of Ariel University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

In August 2017, Zell condemned counter-protesters at a gathering of hundreds of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.^[4] Zell blamed the counter-protesters for the violence at the gathering, stating that they represented the "ugly face of progressivism".^[4]

In the 1980s, Zell developed an interest in Zionism and, after a series of visits to Israel, moved his family, in 1988, to the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank.^[3] Since 2016, he lives in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa.^[5] He supported Donald Trump for President of the United States in 2016.^[5]