Israeli businessman Yossi Maiman, the former controlling shareholder of the now-defunct Channel 10 News, died on Saturday at his Herzliya home. He was 75.
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Maiman was born in Germany in 1946 to a family of Holocaust survivors from Poland, but he grew up in Peru. He immigrated to Israel in 1971 after working for ExonnMobil and Citibank.
In 1975 Maiman founded the Israeli-based multinational group Merhav, doing business in agriculture, transportation, gas and oil. Merhav currently operates in Central and South America, and well as in Europe, the Middle East and China.
Former Channel 10 reporters commented on the news of social media, describing Maiman as the person who fought to keep the network alive for years, through multiple crises.
Maiman is survived by his wife and three children.
