Sammy Ofer

Sammy Ofer KBE (born Samuel Herskovich, 22 February 1922 – 3 June 2011) was a businessman, shipping tycoon and one of the wealthiest people in Israel, although most of his time he spent abroad, and managed his businesses from Monte Carlo in Monaco. A member of the Ofer family, the annual Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires estimated in 2011 his fortune, together with his brother Yuli's, to be $10.3 billion, ranked him in 2011 as the 79th in wealthiest people in the world, and the wealthiest man in Israel. Born in 1922 in Romania, in 1924 Ofer's family immigrated to Mandate Palestine. The family lived in Haifa. After Ofer finished elementary school, he started working as delivery boy for a shipping company. With the start...