The Sunday Times has released its much vaunted Rich List for 2025, topped by India’s Hinduja business dynasty.
However, this year, there is a distinctly Hebraic flavour to the table, with no fewer than 13 Jewish billionaires making the top 50 – so who are they?
David and Simon Reuben (Rank: 2; Net worth: £26.873bn)
The Reuben brothers were born to Baghdadi Jewish parents in British India in the early 1940s, before moving to London as children.
From humble beginnings (Simon never finished school), the pair worked their way up in the business world – David in scrap metal and Simon in the carpet trade.
They made their money primarily in the Russian metals market but have since sold their Russian assets to invest in property and private equity ventures.
The duo are now part owners of Newcastle United and are backing the building of several luxury hotels, including one in London’s iconic Admirality Arch.
Sir Leonard Blavatnik (Rank: 3; Net worth: £25.725bn)
Born in Ukraine but now a dual US-British citizen, Blavatnik was ranked second on last year’s list but has since been overtaken by the Reubens.
Much of the relative decline in his worth can likely be put down to a slide in the share price of Warner Music Group, in which he is heavily invested.
He originally studied to be a railway engineer but left the Soviet Union in his twenties and founded investment firm Access Industries.
Today, he has a significant stake in chemical giant LyondellBasell and owns streaming services Deezer and DAZN.
Idan Ofer (Rank: 5; Net worth: £20.121bn)
Israeli-based Ofer is the heir of a Royal Navy seaman turned shipping magnate.
He poured his inheritance into his holding company, Quantum Pacific Group, and now has stakes in mining and sports.
Ofer is the minority owner of La Liga club Athlético Madrid and the majority owner of Famalicão, a club in Portugal’s top flight.
He is also the majority shareholder of Israel’s largest holding company, the Israel Corporation.
Alex Gerko (Rank: 20; Net worth: £8.745bn)
Gerko, originally from Moscow, made his fortune in equities trading, working for Deutsche Bank, before moving into hedge funds.
He later founded XTX Markets, a company which develops algorithms to take advantage of the difference in prices across various exchange rate markets.
He has lived in the UK since 2006 and is a British citizen. He renounced his Russian citizenship in 2022.
Moshe Kantor (Rank: 24; Net worth: £7.661bn)
Born Viatcheslav Kantor in Moscow, but going by his middle name, he rose to prominence in Russia as the head of telecoms firm Intelmas.
He holds Russian, British and Israeli citizenship but has been closely linked with the Putin government, according to the UK government.
He also served as an economic advisor to the Russian parliament in the 1990s.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kantor was sanctioned by the UK and EU, though has since been removed from the latter’s sanction list.
However, he has given more than £2 million to Matilan, a Jewish battalion in Ukraine fighting against Kremlin-backed separatists in the Donbas region.
He has previously served as president of the European Jewish Congress and the World Holocaust Forum Foundation and chaired the European Jewish Fund and World Jewish Congress.
Stephen Rubin (Rank: 28; Net worth: £6.661bn)
Rubin is primarily known as the owner of the Berghaus outdoor brand and swimwear firm Speedo through his holding company Pentland Group.
He also owns a sizeable stake in JD Sports and Mitre, a sports equipment manufacturer.
Born in Dorset, before his career in business he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on behalf of the Liberal Party at the age of 21.
He has consistently been ranked among the highest taxpayers in Britain, paying more than £140 million in 2020.
Outside of his work, he is a board member of advocacy group A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe.
Joe Lewis (Rank: 33; Net worth: £5.774bn)
Football fans will know Lewis as the owner of Tottenham Hotspur, which he bought through his ENIC Group firm in 1991.
He left school at 15 to work in the family catering business, which he later took over and grew into a luxury goods firm.
In the 1970s, he became a currency trader and made a fortune on Black Wednesday in 1992, when the UK crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
He is also the main investor of the Tavistock Group, which owns over 200 companies worldwide.
Hilton Schlosberg (Rank: 35; Net worth: £5.4745bn)
Born in South Africa, he was part of a consortium that acquired the Hansen Natural Corporation in 1990.
The company, founded in 1935, rebranded as Monster Beverages in 2012 and sells a wide range of energy drinks, most notably Monster Energy.
Through the Monster Brand, it also sponsors a number of sports events, particularly in motorsport where it is a major sponsor in NASCAR, MotoGP and the Isle of Man TT.
Mark Scheinberg (Rank 38; Net worth: £5.081bn)
Scheinberg is an Israeli-Canadian gambling magnate who founded the PokerStars online poker site.
He sold the site to Amaya Gaming – now the Stars Group – in 2014 for £4.9 billion.
Since then, he has also founded Mohari Hospitality, which acts as an investor in several luxury hotels around the world.
He is single and lives on the Isle of Man, where PokerStars is headquartered. He is believed to be the richest man on the island.
Teddy Sagi (Rank: 39; Net worth: £5bn)
Another Israeli business guru, Sagi founded gambling company Playtech and cybersecurity firm Kape Technologies.
He is a dual Israeli and Cypriot citizen, the latter of which he obtained in 2009, and is the owner of London’s Camden Market.
In 1996, Sagi served five months in prison in Israel after being convicted of fraud and bribery.
He owns the most expensive home in Israel, a mansion in Herzliya, where he lives with 2006 Miss Israel Yael Nizri and their six children.
Sir Michael Moritz (Rank: £4.435bn)
Moritz was born in Cardiff to a German Jew who had fled Nazi persecution during the Second World War.
He started his career as a journalist, including as a writer for Time Magazine. While at the publication, he was approached by Steve Jobs to document the development of what would become the Apple Mac.
His close relationship with Jobs led him to tech investing, join Sequoia Capital in 1986 and making sizeable margins on early investments in companies like PayPal and Google.
He remains on the board of payment firms Stripe, Klarna and Instacart and funds the San Francisco Standard news site.
Moritz lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Harriaet Heyman, and is a keen investor in triathlon, with the goal of taking the sport mainstream.
Laurence Graff (Rank: 44; Net worth: £3.65bn)
Graff began his career as a jeweller’s apprentice after he left school at 14.
But in 1960, he founded Graff Diamonds and, two years later, had a shop in London’s Hatton Garden.
A bracelet he commissioned won the 1966 De Beers Diamond International Awards and he is now among the most successful jewellers in the UK.
The firm has supplied jewels for several global royals, most notably Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei.
Indeed, there was even reportedly an occasion on which Prince Turki bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, brother of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, walked into Graff’s Hatton Garden headquarters and bought every item in the shop on the spot.
Mark Pears (Rank: 47; Net worth: £3.451bn)
Pears took over his family real estate business in his early twenties, which owns almost 4,000 London properties, including large sections of Notting Hill.
He is reportedly a director of over 200 companies and owns property in Berlin and New York.
Pears grew up in Hendon and lives in Totteridge. He is a trustee of the British Museum.
