Short answer: As of August 2026, Larry David has never made a direct public statement backing or opposing Israel. He did not sign the October 2023 Hollywood letter condemning Hamas and supporting Israel that his "Seinfeld" collaborator Jerry Seinfeld signed, and there is no verified record of him signing any pro-Palestinian or boycott letter either. What he has done consistently is put Jewish identity front and center in his comedy, most recently in a satirical 2025 New York Times piece that leaned on Holocaust imagery. He remains alive and professionally active in 2026.
What Larry David has actually said and done
October 12, 2023: Creative Community for Peace published an open letter condemning Hamas's October 7 attack and expressing support for Israel. Variety reported roughly 700 signatories at the time of publication, a total the organizers later put above 2,000, among them including Jerry Seinfeld, Gal Gadot, Michael Douglas, and Mayim Bialik, according to Creative Community for Peace and Variety. Larry David's name does not appear among the published signatories.
February 4, 2024: In the season 12 premiere of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," David's character mused, "I wonder if a Black man going to Africa is like a Jew going to Israel," then proposed a trip that included Tel Aviv. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported the season had finished filming the previous March, before the Israel-Hamas war began, making the line a coincidence of timing rather than commentary on the conflict.
Spring 2024: The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" series finale, reuniting David with Jerry Seinfeld, leaned heavily into Jewish material, including Yiddish dialogue, a Holocaust-museum callback, and a synagogue donation-plaque dispute, but according to Jewish Currents it contained no direct statement on Israel or the war.
April 21, 2025: The New York Times published David's satirical opinion piece "My Dinner With Adolf," a first-person account imagining a warm, personable Adolf Hitler at a 1939 dinner, written as a rebuke of Bill Maher's White House dinner with President Trump that March. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, the piece was not about Israel. It drew on Holocaust imagery and fits David's broader pattern of engaging Jewish and Nazi-era themes rather than Israel policy directly.
Through August 2026: A cross-outlet search, including the Jerusalem Post, along with AP, Reuters, JTA, the Times of Israel, and the New York Times, turns up no direct Larry David statement, donation, or public event appearance specifically about Israel, the war, or the hostages, positive or negative, since October 2023.
June 26, 2026: David's new HBO sketch series, "Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America," premiered, confirming he remains alive and professionally active, according to Variety.
Where Larry David's Jewish identity fits into all this
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 and raised in Brooklyn, is the Jewish co-creator of "Seinfeld" and the creator and star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." His Jewishness is a constant, visible ingredient of his comedy and his real-life disputes, the Bill Maher and Trump essay drew directly on Holocaust imagery, but he has kept Israel itself, as a country and as a political question, outside his public commentary. He is not on the record with the major pro-Israel Hollywood letter organized after October 7, 2023, and he is not on the record with any counter-letter or boycott campaign that emerged later in the war. That puts him in a different category from openly pro-Israel Jewish entertainers, including his own "Seinfeld" co-creator, without placing him on the other side either. The accurate description is quiet, not opposed.
The bottom line
Larry David is Jewish, proudly and visibly so in his work, but he has not taken a public position, for or against, on Israel through August 2026. He skipped the 2023 pro-Israel Hollywood letter his own creative partner signed, and no reputable outlet has reported him signing any Israel-related letter, making a donation, or making a direct on-the-record statement about the country or the war since October 7, 2023.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
