Martin Oliner

Martin Oliner is an American attorney, former politician, and chairman of the Religious Zionists of America.

Early life and family Oliner was born in 1947 in a displaced persons camp in Germany after his parents survived the Holocaust. He grew up in Brooklyn He is married.

Career Oliner has been a tax attorney since 1972 In 1997, he filed a proposal to build a 260-unit apartment building that became known as the HarborView Place condominiums. The project was delayed due to local opposition and the city approval process. By 2013, Oliner had accrued $6 million in fines. In October 2014, Oliner reached a settlement with the city to sell the property and pay a fine of $250,000.

Politics and philanthropy Oliner served as mayor of the village of Lawrence, New York, from 2010 to 2016. A Touro University trustee, he donated money to establish the Disaster Relief Clinic at Touro Law Center to provide legal advice to people affected by the hurricane. Oliner was a board member of the Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway, New York City and attempted to save it from bankruptcy with a $5 million loan in 2011. The hospital shut down the following year.

Oliner is the chairman of the Religious Zionists of America, a conservative, Orthodox Jewish organization. He advocated for Donald Trump to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which Trump did in 2018, and supported Trump's 2020 Israel–Palestine peace plan. In 2017 and 2018, Oliner traveled to Qatar on trips organized by Nicolas Muzin, an agent of the Qatari government tasked with improving its relations with the Jewish-American community. He donated an ambulance to Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, in 2018.

Writing Oliner's writing has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, Algemeiner, and Jewish News Syndicate. In 2022, he wrote a column supporting Bezalel Smotrich and the Religious Zionist Party in the Israeli election. In February 2025 he wrote a column in support of Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. He argued that "The people of Gaza are collectively guilty” for the October 7 attacks, stating that "They are fundamentally evil, and they must pay a price for their actions."