Moshe Mano

Moshe Mano (born 1955, in Haifa, Israel) is a businessman who is active in the maritime, hospitality and real estate industries. He is the founder, President and CEO of the Mano Holdings Group, which includes Mano Maritime Ltd., Mano Holidays Ltd. and Bambook Properties Ltd.

The companies in the Mano Holdings Group are rated among the 100 largest companies in Israel the Service & Trade category. Mano is the founder of the first local radio station in Israel. He has been an honorary consul of the Russian Federation since 1995 and was also an active collaborator during the 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah (1991-2000).

In 1932, at the height of the Fifth Aliyah (1929-1939), Moshe Mano’s father, Mordechai Mano, emigrated with his parents from Thessaloniki, Greece to what is now Israel, along with other Greek workers who contributed to the construction of the Port of Haifa.Abba Hushi, who was head of the Workers’ Council in Haifa at the time, traveled to Thessaloniki in order to persuade Jewish workers to make Aliyah. Among the 100 families that agreed to relocate were members of the Mano family including Mordechai, who was only 12 years old at the time. This relocation allowed the families to escape the Holocaust, during which the Jews in Thessaloniki were persecuted and killed.

Mordechai Mano raised a family in Israel, and is now considered as one of the pioneers in the maritime transportation field, having founded started Mano Maritime enterprises in 1945. He died in 1969, when his son Moshe was only 14 years old. Moshe Mano, the youngest son of Mordechai Mano, was born in Haifa in 1955 and has lived there ever since. He is married to Iris Mano, who is responsible for the Mano Group’s Tourism division. His son Moran also works in the family business in the maritime transport field, and another son, Liran, participates in the real estate and hospitality divisions of the Mano Group.

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