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Jacob Engel

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli businessman”. Today it says “israeli billionaire primarily involved in the real estate”.
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Jacob Engel (footballer) . Jacob Engel is an Israeli businessman, active in the mining sector, and CEO of Engelinvest Group. In 1951, Engel migrated to Israel from Croatia . Engel was previously a property developer and speculator . In 2010, Elenilto obtained a 25-year licence to develop Liberia 's Western Cluster group of three mines, one of the largest iron ore deposits in Africa.1

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israeli businessman

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israeli billionaire primarily involved in the real estate

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