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In Depth
The double life of Jared Kushner, mixing business with politics as emissary for his father-in-law Donald Trump
Ivanka Trump's husband has a career as an unofficial diplomat and a master dealmaker, juggling billions and focusing his activities on the Middle East and Near East. His latest big coup, carried out with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, was the $55 billion acquisition of video game giant Electronic Arts.
Monday, September 29, marked Jared Kushner's financial triumph.
- At 44, Donald Trump's son-in-law and husband to his eldest daughter Ivanka, was splashed across the front pages of the world's business press after closing the $55 billion (€46.9 billion) takeover of the American video game giant Electronic Arts, with his firm Affinity Partners, the American investor Silver Lake and, most notably, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF).
- "Jared Kushner's art of the deal," enthused the Financial Times,
Monday also marked the political comeback of the man who had served as Trump's Middle East adviser during his first term (2017-2021) and negotiated the Abraham Accords (signed in September 2020), which led to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and later Morocco and Sudan.
- Kushner attended Monday's White House press conference where Trump unveiled his plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, standing alongside Benjamin Netanyahu.
- The previous day, he met with the Israeli prime minister at his New York hotel, accompanied by the American president's official adviser, Steve Witkoff, to discuss the plan.
- One week later, it was again Kushner who was dispatched to Egypt with Witkoff to finalize negotiations on the terms for releasing the hostages who had been abducted during the October 7 attack and were still held by Hamas
