Does Sofía Vergara Support Israel?

Noa Cohen Feb 27, 2025 Updated Aug 07, 2026 3 min read

Short answer: As of August 2026, Sofia Vergara has not made any political statement about Israel or the Israel/Palestine conflict, has not taken part in any boycott, and is not Jewish. The one concrete, verifiable connection is a personal, cultural one: in October 2025 she attended Israeli pop star Omer Adam's sold out Madison Square Garden concert and met him backstage along with Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli. Beyond that appearance, there is no documented record of her supporting or opposing Israel.

What Sofia Vergara has actually said and done

August 18, 2013: Algemeiner ran a lighthearted profile item noting that Vergara has a Jewish business manager named Craig, who jokes with her about her Hermès handbag purchases. The piece does not touch on Israel or on Vergara's own religion or ethnicity; it is included here only because it is the earliest item connecting her name to anything Jewish related, and it stops well short of any statement on Israel. Read the original at Algemeiner.
October 19, 2025: Vergara attended Israeli singer Omer Adam's sold out concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, mingling with a crowd of roughly 20,000 fans, many of them waving Israeli flags, and going backstage afterward. There she met Adam himself, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, and jeweler Lorraine Schwartz, and she shared clips and selfies from the night on Instagram. The appearance was reported independently by JFeed and by Ynetnews.
March 15, 2026: Vergara attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Los Angeles, a routine industry event with no connection to Israel. It is worth noting here only to confirm she has remained active and publicly visible into 2026, with no Israel related comments in the months since the Omer Adam concert. Coverage from theFashionSpot has the details of that appearance.

Sofia Vergara's background and why the Israel question comes up

Sofia Vergara is a Colombian-American actress, producer, and America's Got Talent judge, best known for playing Gloria on Modern Family. She was raised Catholic in Barranquilla, Colombia, and by her own account is not a practicing or particularly religious Catholic today. There is no evidence that she has any Jewish heritage or identity; that claim simply does not appear in any reputable interview, profile, or record.

A claim that circulates in some AI-generated search summaries, describing Vergara as a "longtime supporter of Jewish causes through the American Jewish Committee" who took a "2019 Tel Aviv trip," could not be traced to any actual news article, press release, or AJC record after repeated targeted searches. It appears to be an unsourced fabrication that has spread across search results, and it is not treated as fact here.

The one solid, dated data point is her attendance at Omer Adam's October 19, 2025 Madison Square Garden concert, confirmed independently by two outlets. Israeli and Jewish press covered the appearance as a friendly, low key show of cultural goodwill rather than a political statement. Vergara has made no public comment about Israel, Gaza, October 7, or the broader conflict, and has not signed any open letter, made a donation, or taken a boycott position in either direction.

The bottom line

Sofia Vergara has no political record on Israel. Her only concrete, sourced connection is attending an Israeli singer's sold out New York concert in October 2025, a cultural and social appearance, not an endorsement or a statement. She is not Jewish and has never publicly weighed in on the Israel/Palestine conflict.

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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.