Eyal Ofer
 Eyal Ofer in 2020. Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/192708148@N04/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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| Net worth | $33.6 billion Forbes 2026 list, March 24, 2026[1] |
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| World rank | 62nd (Forbes 2026)[1] |
| Source of wealth | Real estate, shipping |
| Companies | Ofer Global, Zodiac Group, Global Holdings (chairman); Royal Caribbean (director) |
| Citizenship | Israel (lives in Monaco) |
| Born | June 2, 1950, Haifa, Israel |
| Education | Atlantic College; University of London (maritime law) |
| Known for | Shipping and New York real estate |
| Net worth figures are estimates by the source named and change every day. | |
Eyal Ofer is an Israeli businessman and art collector, based in Monaco, with interests in real estate, shipping, energy and technology; he chairs Ofer Global, Zodiac Group and Global Holdings.[2] On the Forbes 2026 billionaires list, a snapshot taken on March 24, 2026, he was 62nd in the world with an estimated $33.6 billion.[1]
Net worth
- November 2024: about $26.5 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[2]
- March 2026: $33.6 billion, 62nd on the Forbes list.[1]
How the fortune was made
Ofer was born in Haifa, the son of the shipping magnate Sammy Ofer, once Israel's richest man, and the older brother of Idan Ofer; their businesses are run separately.[2] As a teenager he spent summers working on his family's ships, served as an intelligence officer in the Israeli Air Force from 1967 to 1973, and studied maritime law at the University of London.[2]
His Ofer Global group owns ships, prime office buildings in Manhattan and a controlling stake in the property fund Miller Global Properties; its residential projects include 15 Central Park West in New York.[2] He has been a director of Royal Caribbean Cruises since 1995 and holds a large stake in it.[2] In 1990 he founded OMNI Offshore Terminals.[2] Lloyd's List has named him among the 100 most influential people in shipping every year since 2013.[2]
Giving
Through the Eyal & Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation he gave £10 million in 2013 to expand the Tate Modern in London, and $5 million in 2019 to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Forbes, "Eyal Ofer", 2026 World's Billionaires list (snapshot of March 24, 2026), read November 3, 2026. Net worth is a Forbes estimate.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Wikipedia, "Eyal Ofer", read November 3, 2026. Billionaire Wiki's text is written in its own words; facts are checked against this article and its sources.