How Israeli Billionaire Families Invest Globally
Where the money is going now. Manhattan real estate, Miami multifamily, London hospitality, Berlin, UAE, Singapore. Venture secondaries, AI infrastructure, data centres, private credit, defence tech, sports, energy transition.
Israeli family capital deploys along a predictable map. New York and London absorb the largest share. Miami and continental Europe absorb the next. Singapore and the United Arab Emirates are the rising destinations. The asset class mix has shifted sharply across the past five years toward longer-duration, less-correlated, less-liquid exposure.
This is where the money is going now.
Manhattan Real Estate
The deepest pool. Global Holdings under Eyal Ofer holds the most institutionally significant Israeli-origin position, including 50 United Nations Plaza and the residential anchor at 200 Riverside Boulevard. Yitzhak Tshuva's 2004 acquisition of the Plaza Hotel at six hundred and seventy-five million dollars defined the previous cycle. The current cycle is being shaped by Gary Barnett's Extell, Ziel Feldman's HFZ Capital, the Sapir Organization and the Naftali Group. Combined Israeli-controlled Manhattan trophy positions remain among the largest single foreign capital concentrations in New York commercial property.
Miami Multifamily and Oceanfront
The Falic family operates from Bal Harbour. Israeli developers have been active in oceanfront condominium development across Miami Beach, Sunny Isles and Bal Harbour. Russian-Israeli wealth migration of the 1990s and 2000s deposited capital across Miami residential and commercial assets through Israeli holding structures. The post-2020 acceleration of Latin American Jewish capital into Miami has further thickened the city's role as a hub for Hebrew-speaking and Spanish-Hebrew-speaking wealth. Multifamily portfolios — both ground-up development and stabilised acquisitions — have been the dominant new commitment.
London Hospitality and Central Commercial
Eyal Ofer's UK portfolio includes the Aldgate Tower, the Park House development on Oxford Street and significant central London holdings. Teddy Sagi's Market Tech Holdings controls one of the largest privately held central London commercial real estate portfolios, including Camden Market. Noam Gottesman has been active in London real estate through TOMS Capital. Poju Zabludowicz, a Finnish-born Israeli, has been active in central London property and the contemporary art market.
Berlin, Lisbon, Athens
Berlin commercial and residential property has absorbed material Israeli capital over the past decade, alongside venture investment into the local technology base. Portugal and Spain have been growth markets, partly driven by the golden visa programs of the 2010s. Greek and Cypriot real estate has seen sustained Israeli activity. Lev Leviev's Africa Israel platform expanded aggressively into Russia and Eastern Europe in the 2000s before contracting. AFI Properties and other Israeli developers built footprints in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and the Czech Republic.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Since the 2020 Abraham Accords, Israeli family capital has been deployed into UAE real estate, technology investment and trading infrastructure at meaningful scale. Several Israeli single-family offices now maintain UAE presences alongside their European holdings. The flow is recent and the data is partial. The trajectory is clear.
Singapore
Singapore is increasingly used as a holding jurisdiction and as a wealth booking centre. The post-2020 single-family-office regime under the Variable Capital Company structure has attracted Israeli principals with significant Asian exposure or with families seeking a credible alternative to European trust centres.
Venture Secondaries
Pre-IPO secondary purchases of Israeli technology cap tables are now a meaningful share of family-office direct exposure. Tender offers run by companies still in the private market, structured secondaries by general partners, and direct secondary purchases by family offices together produce a steady stream of partial liquidity that feeds the family-office buy side as well as the founder sell side. The mechanism has become a recurring feature of the Israeli technology exit pipeline.
AI Infrastructure
The next concentration of Israeli family-office direct investment. AI21 Labs, Run:ai's 2024 acquisition by Nvidia at a reported seven hundred million dollars, the broader generative AI infrastructure layer being built in Tel Aviv, and the AI-adjacent cybersecurity wave riding the same demand cycle are absorbing significant new family-office commitments. The pattern repeats the early Mobileye and Wiz formation cycles compressed onto a faster clock.
Data Centres
The Azrieli Group's 2021 acquisition of Compass Datacenters at approximately eight hundred million dollars extended an Israeli-controlled platform into US hyperscale data centre infrastructure. Beyond the listed-group precedent, family-office direct exposure to data-centre joint ventures, GPU-financing structures and the broader AI-infrastructure capex cycle is a growing category.
Private Credit
Both as LP positions in US and European private credit funds and as direct mid-cap industrial lending. Israeli commercial banks operate with regulatory constraints that family offices do not face. Long-hold real estate equity, growth-stage private credit, structured equity for mid-cap industrial groups, and patient capital for infrastructure projects are areas where family-office capital has expanded into the gap.
Defence Tech
Defence-tech allocations have expanded materially since October 2023. Direct investments into Israeli defence-adjacent startups, alongside LP positions in defence-focused venture funds, have moved from niche to a recognised category in family-office portfolios. The Federmann position in Elbit Systems sits inside the listed sector. Private-market exposure is layered around it.
Sports Ownership and Energy Transition
Idan Ofer's long-standing stake in Atlético Madrid is the most prominent example. US franchise minority positions, European football club holdings and motorsport adjacencies have all attracted Israeli family-office capital. On energy transition, battery-storage and grid infrastructure exposure tied to Israeli industrial groups — including positions adjacent to ICL Group's bromine and lithium chemistry — round out the destination mix.
What This Adds Up To
Family-office capital is moving toward longer-duration, less-correlated, less-liquid asset classes — and increasingly outside Israeli territorial exposure. The Israeli operating businesses remain the underlying anchor. The deployment is global, the architecture cross-border, the asset class mix progressively private. The next decade will not change the destinations. It will change the proportions.
