The Secret Billionaire Club Behind Israel

This video uncovers how Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful connection to billionaire Les Wexner opened the door to one of the most discreet elite networks of the 1990s — the Mega Group.
I begin with Epstein’s unusual financial control over Wexner, and then trace how Wexner, alongside figures like Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman, helped form a private billionaire club that shaped Jewish and Israeli policy far beyond philanthropy.

We’ll look at the anxieties driving this group — the rising Jewish intermarriage rate in America, and Israel’s ongoing demographic problem in its colonization of Palestine. For Israel’s leadership and its diaspora allies, assimilation abroad threatened charitable giving, identity, and long-term support for Israel’s settlement project.
Out of those concerns, the idea of a radical new program was born: Birthright Israel. Launched in 1999, it offered free trips to Israel for young diaspora Jews, with the goal of strengthening Jewish identity, curbing assimilation, and ensuring a steady connection and future immigration to Israel.