Thirty Israeli billionaires have been included in Forbes magazine's annual World's Billionaires list, issued Wednesday.
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The magazine noted that there are currently 2,668 billionaires worldwide with a combined worth of $12.7 trillion.
The richest Israeli man on the list is Eyal Ofer, chairman of Ofer Global Holdings, who ranks 117th with an estimated fortune of $15.4 billion. His brother Idan Ofer, majority shareholder of Israel Corp. and Kenon Holdings, ranks 188th with a net worth of $10.5 billion.
Stef Wertheimer and his family are ranked 411th with $6.2 billion, followed by Teddy Sagi, ranked 471 with $5.6 billion. Shari Arison is ranked 552nd with a net worth of $5 billion.
Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of Sheldon Adelson is number 50 on the Forbes list of billionaires for 2022, with a fortune of $27.5 billion. Adelson is Israel Hayom's publisher and the world's richest Israeli woman, but Forbes considers her to be based in the US as she is the sole heir to her late husband's casino empire.
Dimitry and Igor Bukhman, who own online gaming company Playrix, are ranked 275 with an empire of $8.5 billion and tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner is ranked 324 with a fortune of $7.3 billion.
Other Israelis on the list include Delek majority shareholder Yitzhak Tshuva, ranked 778 with $3.8 billion, followed by Check Point CEO Gil Shwed, ranked 851 with $3.5 billion.
Liora Ofer, Melisron's majority shareholder, is ranked 1645th with $1.8 billion, while Israeli real estate rival Danna Azrieli is in 1929th place with $1.5 billion.
Adam Neumann, ranked 2076th with $1.4 billion and hotelier David Fattal with $1.3 billion are ranked 2324th.
The United States is home to the largest number of billionaires (735), followed by China (607).
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The top 10 richest people in the world according to Forbes are South African entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is worth $219 billion, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ($171 billion), LVMH chief Bernard Arnault ($158 billion), Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($129 billion), Warren Buffett, Google co-founders Larry Page ($111 billion) and Sergey Brin ($107 billion), Oracle chief Larry Ellison ($106 billion), Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer ($91.4 billion), and chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani ($90.7 billion).
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
