WRoman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman and politician.
WYoav Z. Chelouche is an Israeli businessman. He is a managing partner of Venture Capital firm Aviv Venture Capital, headquartered in Tel Aviv. In 1995–2001, Chelouche served as CEO and President of Scitex Corporation. He sits on the board of directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Tower Semiconductor (Towerjazz) and Check Point Software Technologies., and was co-chairman of Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI).
WAaron G. Frenkel is an international businessman and investor.
WMikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Russian business oligarch. He also holds Israeli citizenship. He co-founded Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of 2017. In May 2017, he was also ranked as Russia's most important businessman by bne IntelliNews.
WAmir Gal-Or is an Israeli businessman. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Infinity Group, and Founder and Chairman of Innonation. Gal-Or served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
WArcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak is a Russian-born French-Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and President of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia (KEROOR). In the 1990s he was awarded the French Ordre national du Mérite and the Ordre du Mérite agricole for actions taken to rescue personnel in the War in Bosnia.
WYossi Gross is an Israeli engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a founding partner of Rainbow Medical, an operational investment company, established to launch companies based on the technological ideas and inventions of Gross. Yossi Gross first started his professional career in the 20th century as a flight test engineer and a project manager of the Lavi program for the Israel Air Force. From the 1990s through to the 21st century, Gross started 29 medical device companies based on his various inventions in electronics, signal processing, nanotechnology, drug delivery and neurostimulation. Gross's various companies have developed or are currently developing treatments for diabetes, gastroenterology, stroke, ophthalmology, asthma, congestive heart failure, spine, Alzheimer’s and urology. Gross has over 560 filed patents.
WAmir G. Kabiri is an Israeli businessman, investor, industrial, publisher, art collector, Chairman of the M.T. Abraham Group S.A., CEO & Chairperson of Aluminij Industries d.o.o., and best known as the owner of The Art Newspaper Israel, President of the M.T. Abraham Foundation and the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel.
WYnon Kreiz is an American-Israeli businessman and current CEO of Mattel. He served as Chairman and CEO of Fox Kids Europe from 1997-2002, Chairman and CEO of television and digital production company Endemol from 2008 to 2011, and as Chairman, CEO and President of web video network Maker Studios, Inc. from 2012 to 2016.
WLev Leviev is an Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor, of Uzbek Bukhari Jewish background, Known as the "King of Diamonds". Lev Leviev has a net worth of $1.0 billion as of March 2018, and has been a philanthropist for Hasidic Jewish causes in Eastern Europe and Israel. Beginning in the 1990s, Leviev avoided being directly involved with the Yeltsin family, and nurtured ties with Vladimir Putin. His diamond mining investments in Angola and his investments in Israeli settlements have been the target of protests. A prominent member of the Bukhari Jewish community, he is president of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews.
WAlexander Antonovich Mashkevich is an Israeli-Kazakh billionaire, businessman and investor who has major holdings and close political relationships in Kazakhstan. He holds both Kazakh and Israeli citizenship.
WBoaz Misholi is one of the pioneers of high-tech in Israel. He was a co-founder of Comverse, Verint Systems, Telemesser, DSP, Fundtech, Versamed and others, companies which paved the way for the establishment of many other Israeli technology ventures.
WLeonid Borisovich Nevzlin is a Russian-born Israeli businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
WGuy Harley Oseary is an Israeli-American talent manager and writer. His clients include Madonna and U2.
WShai Reshef is an Israeli businessperson and academic administrator. He is the founder and president of University of the People.
WMarc Rich was an international commodities trader, hedge fund manager, financier, businessman, and pardoned financial criminal. He founded the commodities company Glencore, and was later indicted in the United States on federal charges of tax evasion, Wire fraud, Racketeering, and making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He fled to Switzerland at the time of the indictment and never returned to the United States. He received a widely criticized presidential pardon from U.S. President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, Clinton's last day in office; Rich's ex-wife Denise had made large donations to the Democratic Party.
WHaim Saban is an Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, and producer of records, film, and television. A businessman with interests in financial services, entertainment, and media, and an estimated net worth of $2.8 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 232nd richest person in America. Saban is the founder of Saban Entertainment, producer and distributor of children's television programs in the US such as Power Rangers. He headed up consortiums which purchased the broadcasters ProSiebenSat.1 Media and Univision Communications. He is a major donor to the US Democratic Party and active in pro-Israel political efforts in the US. In March 2017, Saban was honored with the 2,605th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in television.
WJudy Shalom Nir-Mozes is an Israeli socialite, investor and talk show host.
WGuy Spier is a Zurich-based investor. He is the author of The Education of a Value Investor. Spier is the manager of the Aquamarine Fund, with $350 million in assets. He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in 2008. In 2009, he was featured in The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.
WMichael Strauss was an Israeli German business magnate and industrialist.
WJoseph "Yossi" Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 47 years he has founded and helped to build over 85 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.
WZe'ev Stef Wertheimer is an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician. He was a Member of the Knesset, and is known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries. The Wertheimers are Israel’s richest family as of 2013.