Education
Yeshiva University.
Yeshiva University.
After graduating from Yeshiva University in 1954, Talansky was ordained as a rabbi and went on to study law at a New York law school. He also has an apartment in Wolfson Towers, a high-rise apartment complex overlooking Sacher Park and the Knesset. Talansky owns Transport Global Resources, which he founded in April 1998.
He is registered as sole shareholder and director of the company, which provides investment consulting and business services.
lieutenant also deals in real estate investments. Talansky was executive director of the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center for over 20 years, raising large sums for the hospital.
He stopped working for Shaare Zedek in 1997. Over the years, Talansky made contributions to the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani and George Bush.
He mostly donated sums of $1,000.
Talansky is a longtime acquaintance of former prime minister Ehud Olmert. They knew each other before Olmert was elected mayor of Jerusalem. Olmert used to call Talansky "my dear old friend," and his aides referred to him as "Mr.
T."
In May 2008, when Olmert was investigated for alleged briberies, Talansky was one of two pivotal witnesses.
Talansky was named as one of the contributors to Olmert"s mayoral campaign in 1998.
He is a past board member of Yeshiva University.