First official appointment of new president-elect

[Abu Abdallah al-Bulghari]

Meat the future chief of staff:

Rahm Emanuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father, the Jerusalem-born Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a pediatrician and was a member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group active during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Religion: Judaism

[Abu Abdallah al-Bulghari]

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