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Rep. Elise Stefanik on Monday night accepted the highest honor of the world, vowing to continue to fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and kill antisemitism and protect what he calls America “just days after announcing his governor of New York.
Speaking before 400 guests at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, Stefanik received the Theodor Herzl Award from Ronald Lauder, businessman and US ambassador to Austria under President Ronald Reagan. Established in 2012, the award is considered the highest international honor and recognizes people who embody Herzl’s vision of safe and reliable workers.
“I want to thank my ambassador friend Ronald Ronald for his strong leadership and extraordinary commitment to the struggle for Jewish unity and security,” Stefanik said. “Under his leadership, his Jewish world carried forward the vision of Theodor Herzl – not only in the Jewish world, but for the Jewish people to be strong, grateful, and respected among the nations.”
“It is very humbling to receive the Theodor Herzl award from The World Fund Congress – an organization that, for generations, has stood as the voice of wisdom and moral conscience of the Jewish people around the world,” he continued. “He protected Jewish communities in every corner of the world, fought against ideology in every way, strengthened the unattainable bonds between Israelis and the community of the whole world.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik accepted the international award of the Konglish Congloss’ Theodor Herzl award from Ronald Lauder at the museum of modern art in Manhattan on November 10, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Stefanik described his fight against antisemitism in Congress and on college campuses, recalling his virus in 2023 listening to the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.
“Does asking for Jewish recognition violate your University’s code of conduct?” He remembered asking what he said was a moral question, not a political one. “I was expecting them to say ‘yes.’ But after that later it was said, ‘It depends on jealousy.’ And the world heard. Let me be clear. It doesn’t depend on the context. “
He said the exchange “started a recalculation of the world and brought accountability to higher education in its infancy.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik made a comment after receiving the world’s most famous country on November 10, 2025, to end the fight against the western values. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Turning to New York, Stefanik said that the state “is not just a city and a state of problems – it is a war practice of western values that shape America.”
“After eighty years after Krististallnacht, we must not be silent. I will continue to remove the interests of antisemitism. Empie – Hate. Anti-amerialism,” he said. “This moral battle is especially important in New York – a beloved home to more Jews than anywhere else except Israel – where anti-Semitic incidents have hit throughout the past day, the highest count in the nation.”
“My friends, the story of Theodor Herzl is not ancient history,” he said. “That is the Spirit that I see in this room tonight – the spirit that built Israel, the spirit that continues to build the Jewish people, and the spirit that will save New York.”
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Miriam Adelson appeared to throw her support behind Rep. Elise Stefanik, acting governor of New York, on November 9, 2025, during the Zionist Organization of Justice D. Brandeis Awall. (Photos by Dominic Gwinn/Middle East/AFP via Getty Images and Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
This award comes a day after Billionaire Philanthropist Miriam Adelson’s ADELSON New York Gubernatorial Bid during the ZOUSIIST Organization of America D. Brediis Award.
Stefanik, Chairman of the Republican Leadership Office, was honored with the Zionist organization of Mortimer Zuckerman Maccabee Warrior Award for his efforts to fight his antisemitism.
While at the Gala, Adelson pointed out Stefanik to confront University leaders over antisemitism and asked her late husband Sheldon Adelson Adelson to be sure.
Adelson described Stefanik as a “great leader,” crediting him with protecting “the Jewish people, Israel and the land of the free.”
Stefanik launched his long-awaited New York Republican campaign on Friday, entering the 2026 race as he challenges Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
FOX News Digital has reached out to Hochul’s office for comment.
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Stefanik, who once criticized President Donald Trump during his first run, has since become one of his staunchest defenders in Congress.
FOX News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
