It sounds like the rich are about to get even richer as there’s news that Bill Ackman and his wife Neri Oxman are buying a nearly 5% stake in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange for around $17.3 million.
For those of you that aren’t finance geeks like myself, Bill Ackman is the Founder & CEO of the New York-based Pershing Square Capital Management, and his net worth is estimated to be around $4.1 Billion with a capital B!
In an article on CNBC Bill Achman, who is Jewish, describes himself as both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli, saying “it is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian.”
In a post on X/Twitter in October 2023 Bill Achman wrote “I am pro-Palestinian. Some might be surprised by this due to my recent advocacy on @X for Israel, but you shouldn’t be. I am anti-terrorist, not anti-Palestinian. It is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian.”
“My pro-Palestinian perspective began more than 30 years ago when I was introduced to the Palestinian community and their plight in the early 1990s. I invested millions in helping promote Palestinian economic development and peaceful coexistence.”
Bill Achman’s wife Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli architectural designer and a professor at MIT where she holds the roles of a Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. The couple got married in January 2019 at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan, and had their first child together in Spring of 2019. They are both co-trustees of The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF), which is a family foundation established in 2006 to support exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important social issues and deliver scalable and sustainable global impact.
Bill Ackman and wife Neri Oxman buy nearly 5% stake in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange