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Sammy Ofer
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “businessman”. Today it says “israeli shipping magnate and one of the richest men in the country”.
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Sammy Ofer KBE (born 22 February 1922), is a businessman , shipping tycoon and one of the wealthiest people in Israel , although most of his time he spends abroad, and manages his businesses from Monte Carlo in Monaco . A member of the Ofer family , the annual Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires estimated in 2009 his fortune, together with his brother Yuli 's, to be $4.0 billion, ranking him the 132nd in wealthiest people in the world .1
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businessman
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israeli shipping magnate and one of the richest men in the country
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