Yossi Maiman
| Yossi Maiman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Germany |
| Residence | Herzliya, Israel |
| Alma mater |
University of Texas at El Paso Cornell University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Net worth | US$700 million (2006) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Yisrael Maiman Esfira Rapaport |
Yossi Maiman, also known as Josef Maiman, is a German-born Israeli businessman. He is the founder and owner of the Merhav Group, and a shareholder of the East Mediterranean Gas Company. He is a former majority shareholder of Channel 10, an Israeli television channel. He is the former owner, chairman, chief executive officer and president of the Ampal-American Israel Corporation. He is the owner of Ecoteva Consulting, a real estate development and rental company in Peru.
Yossi Maiman was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany. He is of Polish Jewish descent on his maternal side. His mother, Esfira Maiman, is a Holocaust survivor from Lodz; she escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and hid in Grodzisk Mazowiecki during World War II. Her first husband was murdered by the Nazis. (In 2008, the Roman Catholic woman who saved her, Stanislawa Slawinska, was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.) After she remarried to Maiman's father, the family moved to Peru, where Maiman grew up. They emigrated to Israel in 1972.
Maiman graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso. He earned a master's degree in economics from Cornell University.
Maiman founded the Merhav Group in 1975. He serves its president and chief executive officer. Through a subsidiary, it invests in sugarcane and ethanol production, It also owns a concession from the Egyptian government to expert natural gas to Israel. Additionally, it "modernized a refinery in Turkmenistan" and a "water treatment and sewage systems in Venezuela".
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