1. Yitzchak Mirilashvili was born on Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Mirilashvili; Hebrew: ; born 1984 and is an Israeli investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
12 Facts About Yitzchak Mirilashvili
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili is the controlling shareholder of Israel's Channel 14 and in The economy channel.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili moved to Israel as a child and attended high school there.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili attended Tufts University in the United States, graduating with a degree in economics in 2006.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili co-founded VK in 2006 with friends Lev Leviev and Pavel Durov, where he served as chairman and majority shareholder.
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In 2013, at the age of 29, Yitzchak Mirilashvili sold his remaining shares in VKontakte for a valuation in excess of $1 billion, making him one of Israel's wealthiest citizens.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili held a material stake in Plarium, which in 2017 was sold to Aristocrat, a publicly held Australian company, for an estimated $500 million.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili is the sole shareholder and chairman of The Kuf Dalet Group, a holding company that manages his group's investment portfolio and is headquartered in Herziliya.
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In 2019, Yitzchak Mirilashvili was included in TheMarkers list of top 100 influential people in Israel in the field of business.
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Yitzchak Mirilashvili has made donations to organizations run by Yaffa Deri, wife of Aryeh Deri.
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In 2018, the police recommended the prosecution of Aryeh Deri; Yitzchak Mirilashvili was found to have done nothing wrong.
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Yitzhak Yitzchak Mirilashvili, who is a member of the Chabad community, is the owner of Channel 14, a TV channel considered to be close to his own worldview and increasingly that of the American Fox News channel.