Adam Milstein (Hebrew: אדם מילשטיין; born 1952) is an Israeli-American real estate investor and philanthropist. He is a managing partner at Hager Pacific Properties.
Milstein was born in Haifa, Israel, the eldest child of Eva (née Temkin), a homemaker, and Hillel Milstein, a real estate developer. He served in the Israeli army during the Yom Kippur War with Ariel Sharon's brigade.
Milstein is a managing partner of Hager Pacific Properties, a commercial real estate firm that specializes in acquiring, rehabilitating, and repositioning industrial, retail, office, and multi-family properties.
Donations
Milstein and his wife, Gila, founded the Milstein Family Foundation in 2000, making philanthropic donations of as much as a million dollars per year to Jewish causes. He has published pieces, including in The Times of Israel, about his approach to what he calls "active philanthropy", in which he both contributes to organizations and works to help them achieve their goals.
Milstein donated $1,000 to the Jewish student group UCLA Hillel in 2014 earmarked to help finance the campaigns of pro-Israel student government candidates. Despite the UCLA election code not requiring the disclosure of campaign finance sources, controversy over the donation resulted in a delay of the confirmation of one student regent-designate.
In 2016, Milstein and his wife started The Impact Forum, an initiative which "fights antisemitism, strengthens the state of Israel, and protects American democracy".
Personal life
Milstein pled guilty to tax evasion involving his donations to the Spinka Hasidic sect in 2009 and served three months in prison, was required to do 600 hours of community service, and paid a $30,000 fine.
The Jerusalem Post selected him for its list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world in 2016. In Gil Troy's book, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow (2018), he identified Milstein as a contemporary leader of cultural Zionism for his vision to "invigorate Zionism and Jewish identity" worldwide.
He withdrew from speaking at the 2019 AIPAC conference after he posted tweets connecting Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to the Muslim Brotherhood. Milstein said his views as expressed on Twitter had been "mischaracterized."
He lives in Encino, California, with his wife. They have three daughters and three grandchildren.
↑"Adam Milstein: Leading by example", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, November 18, 2015. Accessed September 10, 2026. "Adam Milstein is among Los Angeles’ most visible Israeli-American philanthropists. Through the family foundation that he runs with his wife, Gila, the San Fernando Valley resident gives upward of $1 million annually to dozens of organizations, including the Birthright Israel Foundation, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and Hillel."
