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Chapter 28 Asia: Sheri Arison (1)
Another set of data is also amazing: since the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Literature, more than 90 Jewish writers have won the highest award in the world literature. Jewish professors account for 1/5 of the prestigious universities in the United States. Forbes Among the top 40 richest people in the United States published by the magazine, 18 are Jews. Jews account for half of the richest entrepreneurs in the world, and 100 out of every 3 richest Americans are Jews. A total of 3400 billion U.S. dollars, 2000 of the 5 largest donors in the US election in 4 were Jews. In 2004, the total value of the Jewish Hundred Rich nearly doubled and a half, reaching 470 billion U.S. dollars, which is the highest indicator in the world... …

After observing his own nation, Karl Marx had to analyze in his writings: "What is the secular idol of the Jews to do business. What is their secular God is money."

But in Israel, where the Jews gather, it is neither Abramovich who owns Chelsea, nor Greenspan or Soros who shake the stock market every time he speaks, but another Name: Sheri Arison. In 2004, she ranked 2005th on the "Forbes" list of the world's richest people with a net worth of US$10 billion; Also became the richest woman in Asia.

On the other hand, Cheri Arison is famous for causing an uproar due to conflicts with the media.In the weird and extreme world of the Middle East, she could not get any understanding from the media: she withdrew the charitable funds she promised to donate, took her son abroad without the consent of her ex-husband, left her motherland and moved to Miami, and became O'Neill Big Boss...

The series of events that have happened to this woman make it almost impossible to find any word that guarantees success in the Jewish dictionary.

But wealth gave her an irresistible magic power.After the death of her father, Ted Arison, she inherited 9600 million shares worth about $[-] billion.At the same time, as the chairman of Israel's Arison Holding Group, she is still the most powerful entrepreneur in Israel, serving as the president of Israel's largest bank Harpo Alim Bank, the president of Israel's largest construction company housing construction holding company, and mastering Israel [-]% stake in Eurocom, the largest private communications company...

Maybe we can only say that the future of the Jewish people is only known to us, and only we can grasp it forever.

Adventurous Jewish Knights: Three Selling Enterprises in 22 Years

Even with her business flair, Sheri Arison owes her fortune largely to her brilliant father.And very different from his own daughter, Ted Arison has a strong Israel complex, and he is also full of Jewish wisdom and noble character.

Ted Arison was born into a family of small boat owners in Israel.His father, like many Israeli businessmen in the early 20th century, ran his small business indifferently.It wasn't until the age of 16 that Ted entered the American University in Beirut, Lebanon to study mechanics with the support of his father. In 1939, the Second World War broke out, and the entire Jewish nation was in the center of the storm, and Germany set off a bloody wave of anti-Semitism.During this period, Ted Allison resolutely interrupted his studies to join the British army and went to the Italian and German battlefields.After World War II ended and the Jewish people had a chance at peace, Ted Arison, the only boy in his family, took over his father's shipping business after returning from the war.

But the war has never been far away from the Jews. Only two years after taking off the military uniform, that is, on May [-], [-], the first Middle East war began again.Ted Arison, with Jewish blood boiling, joined the Israeli army and participated in this famous war against almost the entire Arab world.After retiring after Israel's victory in [-], he took over his father's business again and started a real business career.But the experience of the two wars made the Jewish blood start to burn with a kind of courage and adventurous spirit.

At the beginning of 1950, Ted Arison suddenly sold the Thyssengerff shipping company founded by his father to Zim Cruises, and his ships began to fly the flags of Panama and Honduras to transport goods for Zim Cruises, starting as a businessman himself become a collaborator with others.

After the Korean War, the world's major markets were in a period of extreme downturn. Ted, who was trying to change, knew that if he only engaged in the shipping industry, there was no room for development at all, so he sold his shipping company in Israel again, and made a deal with the then Many of the Jews immigrated to the United States together.Businesses that were almost established were sold for cash.

In the [-] years since [-], Ted Arison took root in the United States. Relying on his unique ability to do business as a Jew and the wealth he accumulated in the United States, he successively established air cargo companies and trading companies. It is said that one of the companies Its market value even reached [-] million US dollars. In [-], Ted Allison suddenly made an amazing decision. He sold the company again and got a cash income.No one knows why he made such a choice.Ted Arison later said it was because he found an opportunity.He has always hoped to return to the shipping industry and expand his career at sea.The Jewish spirit of adventure once again supported him, and he and the Norwegian Knut Kloster partnered to form the Norwegian-Caribbean Yachting Company.With the funds obtained from the sale of the company, Ted helped Kloster bring the fleet he had just formed in Europe into the United States.Ted's model of introducing other partners' ships to new markets through mutual formation of new companies has achieved unprecedented success. On the one hand, it saved huge yacht purchase funds, and on the other hand, it quickly gained scale.Since then, Ted has designed many cooperation models, and these models have once become a model for the combination of American and European yacht companies.

In 2004, Ted and Kloster decided to split the business.After Ted passed a series of financing and mortgages, he founded Carnival Yachting Company, which was entirely owned by him, which later became the largest yachting group in the world.At the same time, he also started to get involved in the sports industry, leading a little-known basketball team in Miami to fight north and south in Florida-this team is the Miami Heat that became famous all over the world for buying O'Neal in one fell swoop in 20. In the [-]s and [-]s, the Arison family's business developed steadily. In [-], Ted Allison also founded two very good yacht branches, Holland-America and Wind Star, and owned [-] ultra-luxury yachts.

So far, Ted has laid the cornerstone for the development of the Arison family in the shipping industry and basketball world.After amassing a substantial fortune, an aging Ted announced his retirement from his position as president of Carnival Corporation.This stage is also a relatively beautiful stage in the Middle East. Peace seems to be within reach. Countless Jews scattered in other countries begin to have the dream of returning to their homeland. Ted Arison is one of them. In [-], he returned to Israel with Cheri, settled in Tel Aviv after restoring Israeli citizenship, and started a new life there that was completely different from that in the United States.

Jews will never forget this hot land, and Ted Arison lived the life he had been looking forward to for decades in Israel.He is passionate about various philanthropy, serves as the chairman of several charitable organizations, and is also a co-founder of the Sinai Medical Center and several other medical schools.Although charitable donations in the name of Israeli companies are not as common as in the United States, Ted persisted until his death.

On the other hand, after returning to Israel, Ted Arison's business began to be divided into two: the eldest son Mitch Arison in the United States was in charge of the family's Carnival Group, and at the same time inherited his father's position as a major shareholder in the Miami Heat; In Israel, Ted reorganized Arison Investments, which had businesses other than yachts and basketball clubs, and handed them over to Sheri Arison.

His daughter lived up to him, and Sheri Arison expanded the strength of Arison Investments in Israel with involvement in the financial and construction industries.Beginning in September [-], Cheri Arison competed for the acquisition of Israel's largest bank, Harpo Alim Bank, and then became the president of this bank, which is well-known among Jews.At the same time, Cheri Arison, as the president of Arison Investment Company, also serves as the chairman of Israel's largest construction company, Housing Construction Holdings, and the chairman of the Ted Arison Foundation with a capital of [-] million US dollars.

Through the three sales of the company in the early years and the bold split of the company after returning to Israel, the wealth of the Arison family, like many Jews in the same period such as Abramovich and Soros, began to expand rapidly and almost affected the entire Israel.

Fortune should never fight the media

In the early 20s, Ted Arison split the Arison family business in half because of his own emigration, but Ted Arison's death in 90 divided the Sherry Arison world into two phases.

Cheri Arison was born in New York in 1958. Although she is an Israeli citizen, she is a rich girl who grew up in the United States.Cheri Arison studied hospitality management at the University of Florida.She worked in the marketing department of Carnival Group for several years and wanted to enter management, but her father did not support her wish. In 1979, Ted let his son Mitch become the general manager of Carnival Corporation. In order to comfort Sherry Arison, he let the 21-year-old Sherry Arison join the company's board of directors, but did not give her real power.But as I said before, Cheri Arison’s business ability should not be underestimated. Since becoming the chairman of Arison Holdings Group, she has fully realized that the situation of doing business in Israel is very different from that in the United States. It determines whether the company's development in this country is smooth.So, at her suggestion, the Arison family established a family foundation as a tool to win the trust of the society and establish a reputation, and this move was generally praised by the media.

Before 1999, Sherry Arison, who had been fighting in the business world for many years, seemed to have no "businessman's breath".As a well-known richest woman in Asia, Cheri Arison has to appear in various public places frequently, but she still often appears shy and at a loss in front of the media.It seems that under the care of the old father, Cheri Arison became the pride of the entire Israeli woman.

But shortly after Ted's death, Sheri Arison's life lost its peace.Business mistakes, divorce, kidnapping, tax evasion... pushed Sherry Arison into the trough of life.

In 900, the conflict between Israel and Palestine intensified, and the security situation and economic situation were on the verge of getting out of control.Cheri lost $107 million of her fortune in the year, but even so, her Hapo Alim Bank still made considerable profits.But Cheri Arison is not satisfied with these, she is trying to recover the loss.Under her arrangement, Harpo Alim Bank cut 1600 jobs.While Sheri Arison paid generous severance packages to the sacked staff and subsequently reinstated 900 workers, the move to cut jobs sharply for profit has drawn strong opposition from Israel's largest union.The union put up more than [-] posters at bus stops across the country that read "[-] Families Crying, Sheri Arison Laughing".Although the posters were taken down the next day following her pressure, her image has been hit hard.Photos of Sheri Arison laughing and drinking a beer in a pub and crying over a resigned employee have been juxtaposed on the front pages of many newspapers.Sheri's image changed from a philanthropist to a ruthless capitalist, which caused a huge negative impact throughout Israel.

Israeli journalists are all-pervasive, and their professionalism is even better than that of the world-renowned Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.They started looking for news about Sherry Arison, and all the hard-to-distinguish, hard-to-verify news they found poured on her like garbage.

Sheri Arison's unhappy marriage has become another subject of criticism.

Cheri Arison has been divorced twice and married a playboy named Ofal Glazer in May 2003.Sheri Arison and Glazer's marriage has received intense media attention from the start, and their wedding celebration has become the talk of the town thanks to a German-Jewish performer.Soon after the marriage, Glazer broke a series of sex scandals.The first to testify against Glazer was their family's private nurse, and then three more "victims" appeared one after another.The playboy-like Tel Aviv businessman's appearance sparked a fuss in the Hebrew media, and Glazer was under constant sexual harassment investigations.Although these sex scandals were eventually dismissed, the Israeli media reported and exaggerated from the very beginning, embarrassing the Sheri Arison family.

Cheri was desperate.She chose to leave Tel Aviv in September 2300 and returned to her paradise Miami, where she bought a mansion worth $[-] million.At the same time, she also moved the company's headquarters to Miami, and announced the cessation of all charitable donations or fund allocations in Israel (the Arison Family Foundation under Sheri Arison's name donates [-] million U.S. dollars a year for Israel's communities and hospital construction).

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