Danna Azrieli Hakim (; born 3 June 1967;
Montreal
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, Canada) is an Israeli
real-estate developer, and philanthropist. Azrieli has been Chairwoman of
Azrieli Group,
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Bloomberg a publicly real estate company in Israel, since 2014. Azrieli is also Chairwoman of the Azrieli Foundation (Israel), and a member of the Azrieli Foundation (Canada), and a board member of the
Weizmann Institute of Science
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,
Tel Aviv University, and the
Darca schools. She has an estimated net worth of $1.9 billion.
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Biography
Azrieli was born in
Montreal
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, Canada. She is the youngest daughter of Stephanie Lefcort Azrieli and
David Azrieli, Canadian real estate
developer. Azrieli and her sisters, Naomi and Sharon, own 46 percent of the Azrieli Group, a company founded by their father.
It is known for developing shopping malls and office buildings in Israel.
They inherited their stakes after Azrieli died in 2014.
Azrieli attended
Herzliah High School and holds a BA in Sociology and
Anthropology
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, from
Swarthmore College
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in 1990, and a
Juris Doctor (JD) from
Vermont Law School, in 1993. Upon immigrating to Israel in 2000, Azrieli worked at
Gornitzky & Co. til 2002 when she joined the Azrieli Group.
[Shlomit Lan and Hadas Magen]
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Career
Before appointed as Chairwoman of Azrieli Group, Azrieli worked at the family's real estate business arm in the United States, Canpro Investment Ltd. From 2006, Azrieli was a director of Granite HaCarmel, and of its subsidiaries,
Tambour,
Sonol, Supergas and GES. Azrieli was appointed as deputy Chairwoman of the Azrieli Group in 2010, when the company went public. She went on to act as Chairwoman of the Azrieli group in 2014 and was officially appointed to the role following her father's death in July of that year.
During the years 2014-2021 the company increased its market capitalization from NIS 12 billion to a value of NIS 37 billion.
In this time, Azrieli Group built the
Azrieli Sarona Tower, a skyscraper in
Sarona neighborhood,
Tel Aviv
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.
the Palace Senior housing projects and other projects across Israel including Rishonim, Ramla Mall, in
Holon, and Azrieli Town in
Tel Aviv
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. In 2016, Azrieli Group launched an
Omnichannel ecommerce website, azrieli.com.
The company entered into the
data center field in 2019 when it acquired 24% of the US-based company Compass Holdco for $200 million. In July 2021, the group purchased the Norwegian company Green Mountain Data Centers for NIS 2.8 billion the company entered other new sectors, the company's real estate interests were diversified further to include the hotel sector and rental housing market.
Philanthropy
As Chairwoman of the Azrieli Foundation (Israel), and a member of the Canadian Azrieli Foundation, Azrieli supports a range of education programs, universities, research institutes, medical centers and hospitals.
In 2004, she founded the Azrieli Empowerment Program that supports over 4000
at-risk middle school students across Israel. The program is currently managed by
Darca schools, where Azrieli serves as a board member. The Azrieli Foundation committed NIS 110 million to support the Empowerment Program and has recently donated another NIS 10 million for the "ELA" Educational Leadership Accelerator program.
In 2018, Azrieli was the Israeli Chair of the General Assembly of the
Jewish Federation Annual Meeting in Israel. Azrieli spearheaded
Tel-Aviv University's 2019 Architect Competition, as part of the Azrieli Foundation's NIS 75 million commitment to establish the David Azrieli School of Architecture in the university. Azrieli sits on a number of boards including the International Board of Governors of the
Weizmann Institute of Science
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, the Board of Governors of
Tel Aviv University, and the board of the
Holocaust Claims Conference, which promotes
Shoah education and research and provides grants to organizations that assist Holocaust survivors around the world.
Board of Directors
Holocaust Claims Conference She is also known for speaking about her father, who was a Holocaust survivor.
Books
* Danna Azrieli,
One Step Ahead: David J. Azrieli (Azrylewicz) : Memoirs 1939–1950
'' Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2001
See also
* Azrieli Group
* David Azrieli
References
External links
Forbes: The World's Billionaires: Danna Azrieli
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1967 births
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Living people
Female billionaires
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Jewish women philanthropists
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Swarthmore College alumni
Vermont Law and Graduate School alumni