30 Facts About Yehuda Raveh

Yehuda Raveh is the founder and the owner of Yehuda Raveh Law Offices and co-founder of the Israel Infrastructure Fund.

Yehuda Raveh's office has been involved in many of Israel's largest infrastructure projects.

Yehuda Raveh is the youngest of three brothers, all of whom became lawyers.

Yehuda Raveh attended Bialik elementary school and Tchernichovsky high school.

Yehuda Raveh served in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in 7th Brigade of the Armored Corps.

Yehuda Raveh earned a degree in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and clerked with lawyers Yigal Arnon and Shlomo Toussia-Hacohen in Jerusalem.

Yehuda Raveh bought the firm from his father-in-law, Gideon Hausner, who founded it in 1940.

Yehuda Raveh was appointed investor representative and president of the Israeli team, which was owned by Livingstone Kosberg.

Yehuda Raveh represented the company throughout its 12 years in Israel.

Yehuda Raveh represented David Tayag, one of the owners of the Hilton Hotel, who built the Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, the Hyatt Dead Sea and the Grand Court Hotel in Jerusalem.

Yehuda Raveh represented David Lewis, owner of the Isrotel chain, from 1980 until his death in 2011, and handled Isrotel's IPO.

Yehuda Raveh represented the Tamares hotel chain owned by billionaire Poju Zabludowicz.

In 1985, Yehuda Raveh was hired to represent the Reichman brothers, who financed the construction of Safra Square, the Jerusalem municipality complex.

Yehuda Raveh represented the company established by Stein in 1992 to build factories that would provide employment to immigrants in Israel.

In 1991, Yehuda Raveh represented Jack Tramiel, owner of Atari, who planned to open a $50 million factory in Israel.

Together with his wife Tami, Yehuda Raveh was one of the founders of Ye'arot Hacarmel, a health resort in Mount Carmel National Park.

Yehuda Raveh represented the Hebrew University in a $45 million project for the construction of student dormitories on Mount Scopus, and PotashCorp, the world's largest potash concern.

Yehuda Raveh was involved in the construction of the hotel complex near the Mandelbaum Gate, the Harel Mall in Mevasseret Zion, the media center in the historic building of Shaare Zedek Medical Center and projects in the Haredi sector such as Givat Canada and Kiryat Sefer.

Yehuda Raveh has handled rezoning permits for agricultural land on moshavim and kibbutzim and represented the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.

Yehuda Raveh represents Mabat LaNegev, which is building IDF training bases in the Negev; clients involved in major class action suits around the world; and real estate developers in transactions such as the purchase of the Azorim real estate firm from IDB, controlled by Nochi Dankner.

Yehuda Raveh represented the MTS Group headed by Lev Leviev, which competed in the tender for the Tel Aviv light rail, the Dutch concern Unilever, the perfume sales of Elizabeth Arden and Faberge, the French mobile phone company France Telecom, Samsung of Korea and Hitachi of Japan.

In 1996, John Beck, owner of the Canadian construction and infrastructure development company Aecon, which built the 407 ETR in Toronto, asked Yehuda Raveh to establish a consortium to build a similar road in Israel.

In 1998, the Derech Eretz Group, a client of Yehuda Raveh, won the tender for the construction of a 86-kilometer stretch of the Trans-Israel Highway.

Since then, Yehuda Raveh's office has been involved in many of the largest infrastructure projects in Israel, among them the construction of power plants, desalination plants, the Tel-Aviv light rail, and the IDF training camps in the Negev.

Together with Harel Group and Yaron Kestenbaum, Yehuda Raveh is one of the founders of the Israel Infrastructure Fund, which invests in and manages infrastructure projects in the fields of water, energy and transportation.

Yehuda Raveh represented the World Jewish Congress at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

Yehuda Raveh is chairman of the Association of Friends of the Israel Museum, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College of Management in Rishon Lezion and a director of the First International Bank.

Yehuda Raveh sits on the board of the children's charity Variety and ALYN Hospital.

Yehuda Raveh is a member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe which meets twice a year in Geneva.

Yehuda Raveh teaches a course in the legal aspects of project financing at Tel Aviv University.