George Karfunkel (born 1948/1949) is an American businessman, the co-founder of companies including AmTrust Financial Services, and a survivor of Operation Entebbe.
Early life
George Karfunkel was born in Hungary, the son of Louis Karfunkel (1914–1997), a religious scholar and fishmonger, and his wife Clara.[1][2] The family migrated to the US in the late 1950s, after the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and lived in the Orthodox community of Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York City.[1][3] His older brother Michael Karfunkel, died in April 2016, aged 72.