"Forbes" has published its 2016 list of the world's wealthiest billionaires with 17 Israelis listed in the list of 1,694 billionaires. Eyal Ofer ranked 135 with a fortune of $8.4 billion (up from 156 with $8.5 billion last year and 191 with $7 billion two year ago). French-Israeli telecom tycoon Patrick Drahi, who is this year listed as Swiss, was ranked 205 with wealth of $6.6 billion (down from 57 last year with $16 billion) as telecom tycoons fared badly this year.
Ranked 228 with wealth of $5.6 billion (up from 256 last year also with $5.6 billion and 267 in 2014 with $5.3 billion)) was Stef Wertheimer, and ranked 270 with a fortune of $5.1 billion was Arnon Milchan (up from 301 and $5.1 billion last year and 319 with $4.7 billion in 2014).
Israel's wealthiest woman, ranked 392 with a fortune of $3.9 billion was Shari Arison (down from 369 with wealth of $4.4 billion last year and 319 with $4.7 billion in 2014). Ranked 421 with a fortune of $3.7 billion was Idan Ofer (down from 330 with a fortune of $4.8 billion last year and 244 with $5.6 billion in 2014). Yitzhak Tshuva ranked 638 had wealth of $2.7 billion, (down from 481 and $3.6 billion last year and 520 with $3.1 billion two years ago).
Jumping above Tshuva was Teddy Sagi, 495, with wealth of $3.3 billion and Shaul Shani with wealth of $3.2 billion. The ninth and final Israeli in the top 100 millionaires was Gil Shwed with wealth of $2.2 billion.
There were eight more Israeli billionaires in the list including weWork founder Adam Neumann, ranked 1198, with wealth of $1.5 billion.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 2, 2016
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