Jeremy Ben-Ami is the President of J Street, a pro-Israel American lobby. He served in the mid-1990s as Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to President Bill Clinton and worked on numerous national and local campaigns. Ben-Ami lived in Israel in the 1990s, where he started a consulting firm working with Israeli non-profit organizations.  His great-grandparents were in the first Aliyah, his grandparents were founders of Tel Aviv and his father was in the Irgun. Ben-Ami received a law degree from New York University and is a graduate of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.