Sandor Frankel is a lawyer in New York City and a graduate of NYU (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School. He has served as a staff member of the White House Task Force on Crime, as Temporary Counsel to the National Commission for Reform of Federal Criminal Laws, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books, and received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. Leona Helmsley and the Helmsley organization were clients of his for many years.
Mr. Frankel is the lead trustee for the Trust’s Crohn’s Disease and Israel programs.
January 14, 2026
May 9, 2022
This week’s Jerusalem Post covered Helmsley’s work with Zefat Academic College to help meet the unique health needs of communities in northern Israel. Two million people live in the northern periphery of Israel, a region that lacks critical access to quality healthcare. Read more at jpost.com about Helmsley’s investments in efforts to change the face of healthcare in the region…
April 8, 2022
The Jerusalem Post covered Helmsley’s latest emergency-response grant for United Hatzalah’s aid work in Ukraine. The funding will help United Hatzalah bring medical equipment, food, and supplies to Ukraine and assist with evacuating sick and injured refugees. Sandor Frankel, one of Helmsley’s Trustees, said, “Helmsley is grateful to United Hatzalah for immediately mobilizing to assist Ukrainian refugees needing medical care…
May 21, 2020
Israel Hayom covered the news of a $9 million grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to help fund the construction of the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences Building…