This is a ranking list of Israeli wealthy people. The following is based on the annual estimated wealth and assets assessment compiled and published by American business magazine Forbes. The wealth of 30 people exceeds $1 billion. Forbes does not include in the list all entrepreneurs and investors who have citizenship of the country.[1]

As of April 2023, nine Israeli billionaires: they are the nine wealthiest people in Israel (see § Current list)

According to Israeli daily business newspaper TheMarker, Israel has seventy-one billionaires as of 2021, with one of the highest per capita rates in the world, at 6.7 billionaires for every million people. However, not all of them permanently reside in Israel. In shekel (₪) terms, Israel had 170 billionaires in the same year.[2] Forbes also lists Israeli citizens living in other countries on its list.[3][4]

Methodology

edit

Each year, Forbes employs a team of more than 50 reporters from a variety of countries to track the activity of the world's wealthiest individuals. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. According to Forbes, they received three types of responses—some people try to inflate their wealth, others cooperate but leave out details, and some refuse to answer any questions. Business deals are then scrutinized and estimates of valuable assets (land, homes, vehicles, artwork, etc.) are made. Interviews are conducted to vet the figures and improve the estimate of an individual's holdings. Finally, positions in a publicly traded stock are priced to market on a date roughly a month before publication. Privately held companies are priced by the prevailing price-to-sales or price-to-earnings ratios. Known debt is subtracted from assets to get a final estimate of an individual's estimated worth in United States dollars. Since stock prices fluctuate rapidly, an individual's true wealth and ranking at the time of publication may vary from their situation when the list was compiled.[5]

Legend
Icon Description
  Has not changed from the previous year
  Has increased from the previous year
  Has decreased from the previous year

Family fortunes dispersed over a large number of relatives are included only if those individuals' holdings are worth more than a billion dollars. However, when a living individual has dispersed his or her wealth to immediate family members, it is included under a single listing provided that individual is still living.[5] Royal families and dictators that have their wealth contingent on a position are always excluded from these lists.[6]

2023 list

edit

The thirty six[7] billionaires are listed as follows, including their Israel rank (R#) and world rank (W#), citizenship, age, net worth, and source of wealth:

R# W# Name Image Citizenship Age
(y.o.)
Net worth
(billions of USD)
Source of wealth Ref.
1 35 Miriam Adelson     United States

  Israel

77   35
+US$7.5B
Gambling, casinos [8]
2 86 Eyal Ofer     Israel 74   18.9
+US$3.5B
Zodiac Maritime, real estate, and shipping [9]
3 127 Idan Ofer     Israel 69   14
+US$3.5B
Israel Corporation, Ofer Brothers Group, drilling, and shipping [10]
4 153 Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor     Russia

  Israel

  United Kingdom

69   11.3
+US$6.7B
Fertilizer, real estate [11]
5 208 Roman Abramovich     Russia

  Israel

  Portugal

56   9.2
+US$2.3B
Steel, investments [12]
6 332 Dmitry Bukhman     Israel 39   7
-US$1.1B
Playrix [13]
6 332 Igor Bukhman     Israel 42   7
-US$1.1B
Playrix [14]
8 352 Yuri Milner     Israel 62   6.8
-US$0.5B
DST Global [15]
9 405 Stef Wertheimer & family     Israel 98   6.3 International Metalworking Companies [16]
10 425 Frank Lowy     Australia

  Israel

92   6
-US$0.8B
Investments [17]
11 455 Teddy Sagi     Israel
  Cyprus
53   5.6 Playtech [18]
12 636 Patrick Drahi     Israel 59   4.3
-US$2.3B
Telecom [19]
13 659 Shari Arison     Israel
  United States
67   4.2
-US$0.8B
Bank Hapoalim and Carnival Cruises [20]
14 699 Shaul Shani     Israel 68   4 Swarth Group [21]
15 766 Yitzhak Tshuva     Israel 76   3.7 El-Ad Group, Delek [22]
15 766 Yakir Gabay     Cyprus

  Israel

56   3.7
-US$0.5B
Real estate [23]
17 878 Arnon Milchan     Israel 79   3.3
-US$0.2B
Regency Enterprises [24]
17 878 Gil Shwed   Israel 56   3.3
-US$0.2B
Check Point [25]
19 1027 Michael Federmann & family   Israel 81   2.9 Elbit Systems, Dan Hotels [26]
20 1368 Oren Zeev   Israel
  United States
60   2.2
-US$0.8B
Houzz, Audible (service), Chegg, TripActions, Tipalti [27]
20 1368 David Wertheim   Israel 65–66   2.2
-US$0.4B
Coca-Cola Israel [28]
20 1368 Shlomo Kramer   Israel 57–58   2.2 Check Point, Imperva [29]
20 1368 Mickey Boodaei   Israel 51–52   2.2 Imperva, Trusteer [30]
20 1368 Shmuel Harlap [he]   Israel 78–79   2.2 Mobileye [31]
20 1368 Adam Neumann     Israel 44   2.2
+US$0.8B
WeWork [32]
25 1804 Liora Ofer     Israel 70   1.6
-US$0.2B
Investments [33]
26 1905 Zadik Bino   Israel 80   1.5
-US$0.2B
First International Bank of Israel, Paz Oil Company [34]
26 1905 Mori Arkin   Israel 72   1.5 Arkin Holdings [35]
26 1905 Amnon Shashua     Israel 64   1.5 Mobileye [36]
29 2020 Marius Nacht     Israel 62   1.4 Software: Check Point [37]
30 2133 Ziv Aviram     Israel 64–65   1.3
-US$0.2B
Mobileye [38]
31 2259 Danna Azrieli     Israel
  Canada
57   1.2
-US$0.3B
Azrieli Group [39]
31 2259 Dan Gertler   Israel 50   1.2 Dan Gertler International [40]
31 2259 Drorit Wertheim   Israel 65–66   1.2
-US$0.2B
Coca-Cola Israel [41]
34 2405 Shlomo Eliahu     Israel 88   1.1
-US$0.2B
Bank Leumi, Union Bank of Israel, and others [42]
35 2540 Morris Kahn     Israel 94   1 Golden Pages, Amdocs, Aurec Group, Coral World Ocean Park [43]
35 2540 Ihor Kolomoyskyi     Israel
  Cyprus
61   1 PrivatBank [44]

References

edit
  1. ^ "World's Billionaires – Israel". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  2. ^ Avriel, Eitan. "500 עשירי ישראל שווים 326 מיליארד דולר - ומפוררים את המדינה" [Israel's rich as worth 326 billion dollars – and are fragmenting the country]. TheMarker (in Hebrew). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  3. ^ Tsuria, Johnathan (7 April 2021). "21 Israelis make Forbes 2021 billionaires list". Globes. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  4. ^ staff, TOI (7 April 2021). "Miriam Adelson becomes richest Israeli as COVID year boosts world's billionaires". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b Dolan, Kerry A. (7 March 2012). "Methodology: How We Crunch The Numbers". Forbes. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  6. ^ Kroll, Luisa (5 May 2006). "Fortunes Of Kings, Queens And Dictators". Forbes. Archived from the original on 19 February 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  7. ^ זהוראי, איתי (4 April 2023). "דירוג המיליארדרים 2023: מאסק ובזוס מסכמים הפסדי עתק, ארנו כובש את הפסגה". Forbes Israel (in Hebrew). Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Miriam Adelson & family". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Eyal Ofer". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Idan Ofer". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Viatcheslav Kantor". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Roman Abramovich & family". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Dmitry Bukhman". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Igor Bukhman". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  15. ^ "Yuri Milner". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  16. ^ "Stef Wertheimer & family". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  17. ^ "Frank Lowy". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  18. ^ "Teddy Sagi". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  19. ^ "Patrick Drahi". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  20. ^ "Shari Arison". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  21. ^ "Shaul Shani". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  22. ^ "Yitzhak Tshuva". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  23. ^ "Yakir Gabay". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  24. ^ "Arnon Milchan". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  25. ^ "Gil Shwed". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  26. ^ "Michael Federmann & family". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  27. ^ "Oren Zeev". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  28. ^ "David Wertheim". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  29. ^ "Shlomo Kramer". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  30. ^ "Shlomo Kramer". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  31. ^ "Shmuel Harlap". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  32. ^ "Adam Neumann". Forbes. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  33. ^ "Liora Ofer". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  34. ^ "Zadik Bino & family". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  35. ^ "Mori Arkin". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  36. ^ "Amnon Shashua". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  37. ^ "Marius Nacht". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  38. ^ "Ziv Aviram". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  39. ^ "Danna Azrieli". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  40. ^ "Dan Gertler". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  41. ^ "Drorit Wertheim". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  42. ^ "Shlomo Eliahu". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  43. ^ "Morris Kahn". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  44. ^ "Ihor Kolomoyskyy". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
edit

See also

edit