Zari David "Bebo" Kovo () is an Israeli-Bulgarian property developer. He was one of the partners of property company Camden Market Holdings & Developments. Kobo was convicted in 1979 of raping a woman who was a passenger in his car, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Career

In the 1970s, Kobo was based in Hong Kong, as a clothing manufacturer, working closely with the Nakash Group, who owned the fashion brand

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. In the 1990s, Kobo alongside

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, and

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, head of the British property company

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, teamed up to acquire London's

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as well other properties in Camden Town. In 2014, they sold "a huge swathe" to fellow Israeli, the gambling billionaire

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, for £440 million.

Personal life

He is the father of businessman Oded David Kobo. In 2015, he bought a 460 sq m house in Arsuf, for 16 million Nis, as part of a creditors' arrangement for brothers Eliyahu and Moshe Shushan and brothers Gad and Dov Slook. In 2020, he married to Israeli model

Miri Bohadana Miri Bohadana (; born October 12, 1977) is an Israeli actress, model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Israel 1995. Biography Miriam (Miri) Bohadana was born in Beersheba, Israel, to Moroccan-Jewish parents and rais ...

, with who he is in a relationship since 2005.

References

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