Simons' foundation has also supported life science research, giving to the New York Genome Center, and autism research through donations to the Autism Research Initiative. Director Joan Micklin Silver was most famous for telling two love Jewish stories of New Yorks Lower East Side, straddling both ends of the 20th century: . Through his George Kaiser Family Foundation, he has focused on community health, criminal justice, childhood education and arts & culture initiatives in his hometown of Tulsa. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. In May 2021, the Washington residents announced $38 million of new grants over five years to address the states mental health crisis. [3][4], 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. Former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin speaks at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2015. In 2010, the legendary investor cofounded The Giving Pledge alongside Bill and Melinda. And they have plenty more to go: they remain worth a collective $799 billion, by Forbes count. Hostetter built a fortune as a cable TV pioneer and is working to give it away through his Boston-based Barr Foundation, which makes about $60 million in grants a year. And those 21 don't include Israel's richest person. To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. In 2020, theretired home building and insurance tycoonand his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supportedCovid-19 testing for college students andvoter education andoutreach across the country. In total, these 25 billionaires have given an estimated $149 billion to charity over their lifetimes so far. Ellison was fifth on the Forbes 2013 world billionaires list. She died in November, aged 91. His research got former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim permanently uninvited from the United States. Using data from the 2020 Pew Research Center survey, Hebrew University demographer Sergio DellaPergola estimates the "core" Jewish population in the United States to be slightly more than 6 million, including 4.8 million adults and 1.2 million children. The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's second largest private company. So far, hes donated more than $40 billionmuch of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where its being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He was also a leading supporter of Birthright Israel, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Zionist Organization of America, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Israel American Council. Though Omidyar made his fortune in tech, the press-shy eBay founder and his wife Pam have emerged as key players in the movement taking to task the industry where he got his start. @JVPPhilly built a sukkah on the private lawn of an American Jewish billionaire who foots the bill for illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Palestine. April 29, 2022, 11:20 am. Television talk show legend Larry King was nearly as famous for the 50,000 interviews he claimed to have conducted in his career as he was for his romantic history, marrying eight times to seven women. ". She died in January at 97. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site. In shekel () terms, Israel had 170 billionaires in the same year. (JTA) Every year brings the deaths of Jewish icons who leave behind outsized legacies, from the realms of art and culture, government, business, philanthropy and beyond. Joan Micklin Silver at the premiere of the film A Private Matter atthe Directors Guild Theater in Hollywood, Calif., June 14, 1992. Turners own namesake foundation is focused on environmental protection, which he views as "an effort to ensure the survival of the human species.". It also donated $20 million to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 treatment. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Since Bren took over the Irvine Company in the 1980s, the firm has designated more than 50,000 acres of land as open space and protected parkland. There are a number of folks on this list below that we were unsure about, and they are denoted with asterisks. Jonathan Greenstein (1967-), founder of auction house J. Greenstein & Company [44] Ami James (1972-), Israeli-American entrepreneur, owner of the Miami-based Love Hate Tattoo Studio, and nightclub Love Hate Lounge [45] [46] Jules Kroll (1941-), founder of corporate investigation firm Kroll, Inc. [47] Terry Lenzner (1939-2020), founder . Arnold and wife Laura emphasize that their $200 million-plus in evidence-based annual giving is all about maximizing opportunity and minimizing injustice. Among 540 active grantees, the Arnolds have earmarked nearly $30 million to the Center for Effective Public Policy to study pretrial reforms, $30 million to America Achieves to support a national tutoring program and more than $100 million to The City Fund to improve public education in the U.S. In less than one year as a publicly active philanthropist, she has given away more than what all but five of the countrys biggest givers have in their entire lifetimes, Forbes calculates. In December 2021, calling Americas public education system broken in a Wall Street Journal opinion article, Bloomberg announced a $750 million pledge to support charter schools in 20 metro areas around the U.S. over the next five years. In 2021, Bezos announced $1 billion in donations, the most he's given away since Amazon went public in 1997. The 2013 estimate was 6.7 million, including 5.3 million adults and 1.3 million children. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. The influential New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, hailed as one of the 20th centurys pioneers of New Journalism, didnt know she was Jewish until she was called an antisemitic slur in elementary school. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. He has also given billions to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. Antisemitism Meets Transphobia. T he billions keep. Hi Tech Billionaire Erel Margalit speaking before protesters outside the Knesset, Feb. 20, 2021. Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. Heres the full list of Americas 25 most generous givers: The legendary investors quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. Web, LAP & Community. 365, Peter Thiel), four Indians, six (non-Indian) Asians, 34 women, and, of course, 30 Jews in the top 100 (see below). Giving Focus: Education, Jewish causes Net Worth: $3.4 billion Lifetime Giving: $1.84 billion The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the family's foundation,. Following the George Floyd protests in 2020, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $100 million gift to support four historically Black medical schools. (Not to be outdone, Ronald donated his collection of European arms and armour to the Met in 2020. tyson jost dad; sean penn parkinson's disease; mockingbirds attacking my cat The thirty billionaires are listed as follows, including their Israel rank (R#) and world rank (W#), citizenship, age, net worth, and source of wealth: "500 326 - ", "21 Israelis make Forbes 2021 billionaires list", "Miriam Adelson becomes richest Israeli as COVID year boosts world's billionaires", "Fortunes Of Kings, Queens And Dictators", "Israel's 400 richest: Middle-aged, living in Tel Aviv, and 89% men", "The Hurun 2015 Global Rich List features 13 Israeli billionaires", List of countries by the number of billionaires, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Israelis_by_net_worth&oldid=1138351951, This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 05:48. That would be Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, who is ranked 107th overall with $12.4 billion. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie reported giving more than $400 million to nonprofits in 2021, pushing their lifetime total above $2.1 billion. The group owns much of London's. Lynn Schustermans Samson Resources lost $1 billion over the past year, according to Forbes, but Schusterman is still worth $1.5 billion and 236 on the Forbes list. * Finance state of the richest Jews. The organization has awarded more than $150 million in funding for research on Alzheimers disease at biotech companies and academic centers in 19 countries. ), If not for his $1.4 billion of lifetime giving, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN wouldnt have fallen off Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans in 2021. 13 Sheldon Adelson No. According to Forbes, some of the names that the Jewish philanthropy world knows best had rough years. He died in Los Angeles in January at 87. After being ranked the third wealthiest American in 2007, and publicly stating that he wanted to overtake Warren Buffet, who was then rnaked second on the Forbes 400, Adelson watched his personal wealth drop by $13 billion in 2007, then another $4 billion for this ranking. Funeral services were held Monday for billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee of Palm Beach and New York, who died Thursday. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation,which includesan art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundationand are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. The Stand Together Foundation has supported nonprofits like Caf Momentum, a restaurant that offers paid internships for adolescents exiting the juvenile justice system in Dallas, Nashville and Pittsburgh. The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of Californias Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. (Si) Newhouse Jr. 4,500 81 New York publishing, 56 Micky Arison 4,300 60 Bal Harbour Carnival Cruises, 61 Ralph Lauren 4,200 70 New York fashion, 65 Lester Crown & family 4,000 84 Wilmette investments, 65 Richard LeFrak & family 4,000 64 New York real estate, 65 Donald Newhouse 4,000 79 Somerset County publishing, 65 Daniel Ziff 4,000 37 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Dirk Ziff 4,000 45 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Robert Ziff 4,000 43 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 77 Henry Kravis 3,800 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 77 Paul Milstein & family 3,800 87 New York Emigrant, real estate, 77 Samuel Zell 3,800 68 Chicago real estate, private equity, 84 Leonard N. Stern 3,600 71 New York real estate, 85 Stanley Druckenmiller 3,500 56 Pittsburgh hedge funds, 85 Bruce Kovner 3,500 64 New York hedge funds, 85 George Roberts 3,500 66 San Francisco leveraged buyouts, 97 Riley P. Bechtel 3,000 57 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. 3,000 84 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Leonard Lauder 3,000 76 New York Estee Lauder, 97 Theodore Lerner 3,000 84 Washington real estate, 97 Steven Spielberg 3,000 62 Pacific Palisades movies, 97 Warren Stephens 3,000 52 Little Rock Stephens Inc. **, 97 David Tepper 3,000 52 Milburn hedge funds, 110 Stephen Ross 2,900 69 New York real estate, 113 Daniel Och 2,800 48 New York hedge funds, 113 Haim Saban 2,800 65 Beverly Hills television, 123 Edgar M. Bronfman 2,500 80 New York liquor, 123 Ronald Lauder 2,500 65 New York Estee Lauder, 123 Mitchell Rales 2,500 53 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 Steven Rales 2,500 58 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 David Rubenstein 2,500 60 Bethesda leveraged buyouts, 139 Mark Cuban 2,400 51 Dallas Broadcast.com, 139 Malcolm Glazer & family 2,400 81 Palm Beach sports teams, real estate, 141 Steve Wynn 2,300 67 Las Vegas casinos, hotels **, 147 Tom Gores 2,200 45 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 147 Bruce Wasserstein 2,200 61 New York Wasserstein Perella, Lazard, 158 Nicolas Berggruen 2,000 48 New York Investments, 158 Leon Black 2,000 58 New York leveraged buyouts, 158 William Gross 2,000 65 Laguna Beach bonds **, 158 Michael Milken 2,000 63 Los Angeles investments, 158 Sumner Redstone 2,000 86 Beverly Hills Viacom, 158 Leslie Wexner 2,000 72 New Albany Limited Brands, 158 Mark Zuckerberg 2,000 25 Palo Alto Facebook, 183 Stewart Rahr 1,950 63 New York Kinray, 193 Alan Casden 1,850 63 Beverly Hills real estate, 196 Thomas Pritzker 1,800 59 Chicago hotels, investments, 196 Jerry Speyer 1,800 69 New York real estate, 204 Israel Englander 1,700 61 New York hedge funds, 204 Penny Pritzker 1,700 50 Chicago hotels, investments, 204 Sheldon Solow 1,700 81 New York real estate, 212 Robert Friedland 1,650 59 Singapore mining, 212 Henry Samueli 1,650 55 Newport Beach Broadcom, 220 Thomas Friedkin 1,600 74 Houston Gulf States Toyota, 220 Alec Gores 1,600 56 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 220 Irwin Jacobs 1,600 76 La Jolla Qualcomm, 220 Anthony Pritzker 1,600 48 Los Angeles hotels, investments, 220 Jay Robert Pritzker 1,600 44 Evanston hotels, investments, 230 John Morgridge 1,550 76 Portola Valley Cisco ** (NETA with Jewish Agency), 230 Isaac Perlmutter 1,550 67 Palm Beach Marvel, 236 Neil Bluhm 1,500 71 Chicago real estate, 236 Robert Kraft 1,500 68 Brookline New England Patriots, 236 Stephen Mandel 1,500 53 Greenwich hedge funds, 236 Daniel Pritzker 1,500 50 Marin County hotels, investments, 236 James Pritzker 1,500 58 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker 1,500 47 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 John Pritzker 1,500 56 San Francisco hotels, investments, 236 Karen Pritzker 1,500 51 New Haven hotels, investments, 236 Linda Pritzker 1,500 55 St. Ignatius hotels, investments, 236 Marc Rich 1,500 74 Meggen commodities, 236 Lynn Schusterman 1,500 70 Tulsa oil & gas, investments, 236 John Sperling 1,500 88 Phoenix Apollo Group, 236 Mortimer Zuckerman 1,500 72 New York real estate, media, 272 George Lindemann & family 1,450 73 Palm Beach investments, 272 Bernard Marcus 1,450 80 Atlanta Home Depot, 277 S. Daniel Abraham 1,400 85 Palm Beach Slim-Fast, 277 John Arrillaga 1,400 72 Palo Alto real estate, 277 Alfred Mann 1,400 83 Los Angeles medical devices, 277 Michael Moritz 1,400 55 Mountain View venture capital, 277 Michael Price 1,400 57 Far Hills investments, 277 Tamir Sapir 1,400 62 New York real estate, 277 Alfred Taubman 1,400 85 Bloomfield Hills real estate, 289 Ken Fisher 1,350 58 Woodside Money management **, 289 David Gottesman 1,350 83 Rye investments, 289 Marc Lasry 1,350 49 New York hedge funds (92nd Street Y), 296 Edmund Ansin 1,300 73 Miami Sunbeam Broadcasting, 296 Ron Baron 1,300 66 New York money management, 296 Leon Charney 1,300 68 New York Real estate, 296 Glenn Dubin 1,300 52 New York hedge funds, 296 Donald Fisher 1,300 81 San Francisco Gap, 296 Doris Fisher 1,300 78 San Francisco Gap, 296 Jeremy Jacobs Sr. 1,300 69 East Aurora sports concessions, 296 Gary Michelson 1,300 60 Los Angeles medical patents, 317 Arthur Blank 1,250 67 Atlanta Home Depot, 317 Jeffrey Greene 1,250 54 Miami Beach real estate, investments, 317 Thomas H. Lee 1,250 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 317 Herbert Simon 1,250 74 Indianapolis real estate, 317 Peter Sperling 1,250 49 Phoenix Apollo Group, 326 John E. Abele 1,200 72 Shelburne healthcare **, 326 Norman Braman 1,200 77 Miami art, car dealerships, 326 John Fisher 1,200 48 San Francisco Gap, 326 Nicholas Pritzker 1,200 65 Chicago hotels, investments, 326 Alexander Rovt 1,200 57 Brooklyn fertilizer, 326 Margaret Whitman 1,200 53 Atherton Ebay, 341 Leon Cooperman 1,150 66 Short Hills hedge funds, 341 Barry Diller 1,150 67 New York IAC/InterActiveCorp, 341 Joseph Mansueto 1,150 53 Chicago Morningstar **, 347 Marc Benioff 1,100 45 San Francisco Salesforce.com, 347 A. James Clark 1,100 81 Easton Construction **, 347 Robert Fisher 1,100 56 San Francisco Gap, 347 Alan Gerry 1,100 80 Liberty cable television**, 347 James Irsay 1,100 50 Carmel Indianapolis Colts (Father, Bob was Jewish), 347 Michael Krasny 1,100 56 Highland Park CDW Corp 3, 347 Daniel Snyder 1,100 44 Potomac Washington Redskins, 347 Henry Swieca 1,100 52 New York hedge funds, 366 Peter Lewis 1,050 75 Coconut Grove Progressive Corp, 366 Nelson Peltz 1,050 67 Bedford Investments, 371 William Fisher 1,000 52 San Francisco Gap, 371 Pincus Green 1,000 74 Jerusalem commodities, 371 Jeffry Picower 1,000 67 Palm Beach investments, 371 Steven Schonfeld 1,000 50 Westbury Proprietary Trading, 371 Walter Shorenstein & family 1,000 94 San Francisco real estate, 371 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler 1,000 45 London Millhouse LLC, 371 Charles Zegar 1,000 61 New York Bloomberg LP, 394 Jeffrey Lurie 980 58 Haverford Philadelphia Eagles, 396 Nancy Lerner 960 49 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Norma Lerner 960 73 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Randolph Lerner 960 47 Cleveland inheritance, list of the countrys 400 richest citizens, Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. 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