Lev Leviev

Lev Leviev

Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born July 30, 1956) is a Bukharian-Israeli billionaire businessman, with a net worth of roughly $12 billion following the 2008 global financial crisis. Leviev is one of the most prominent Mizrahi Jewish individuals in the world and has been a major 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.