Israeli Billionaires - Haim Saban, Lev Leviev, Arcadi Gaydamak, Stef Wertheimer, Guma Aguiar, Leonid Nevzlin, Alexander Mashkevitch (Paperback)

Chapters: Haim Saban, Lev Leviev, Arcadi Gaydamak, Stef Wertheimer, Guma Aguiar, Leonid Nevzlin, Alexander Mashkevitch, Shari Arison, Sammy Ofer, Arnon Milchan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Haim Saban (Hebrew:, born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Israeli-American television and media proprietor. With an estimated current net worth of $2.8 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 102nd richest person in America. Haim Saban was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1944. As a result of the 1956 Suez War, which pitted Egypt and Israel against each other, Haim, along with his family, and much of the Egyptian Jewish community, fled to Israel. After almost going bankrupt in 1975, he moved to Paris, France. Later, in 1983, he moved again to Los Angeles. He currently resides in Beverly Hills, California and in Israel. Saban is married to Cheryl Saban (nee Chackler), with whom he has two children. Through Cheryl, he is also the stepfather of Tifany and Heidi Lenhart. Saban started his career in 1966 as a bass player and manager with the Rock band The Lions of Judah (in Hebrew are simply know as The Lions - Ha'arayot). In the interview to the Israeli businesses newspaper The Marker in 2006 Saban told the story that his involvement with the band started after visiting an outdoor music venue in Ramat Gan (In the Galei-Gil outdoor swimming pool where today the Sheraton City Tower stands) and telling the manager that he has a band that could perform at the venue; however at that the time he had yet to have a band nor knew how to play. A friend told him about two brothers (Shuki and Haim Chaymon Algranati) who play quite well and lived in North Tel-Aviv. Saban managed to track the brothers by walking around their neighbourhood and locating their house ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5733711