Personal Life
Gutnick lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, a daughter of textile maker Max New, whom he married in 1974; they have 11 children. He studied for rabbinic ordination in Brooklyn, New York and ran a religious girls' seminary in Melbourne. His brother, Mordechai Gutnick, is a prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Australia.
Gutnick is an Orthodox Jew and a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. According to Gutnick, in 1988, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson told him exactly where to mine for gold in Western Australia.
He was close with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the 1990s, Gutnick spent millions of dollars campaigning for Benjamin Netanyahu and against the Labor Party in Israel's elections.
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