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MOST INFLUENTIAL JEWS ’S RICHEST 38 WOMAN GIVES BACK SHARI • BY GREER FAY CASHMAN and water, and operates both in Israel and abroad. ARISON Others in the Arison Group include Miya, a global wa- American-born Israeli is the wealthiest ter efficiency and distribution company, and Salt of the woman in Israel, and one of the wealthiest women in the Earth, Israel’s key producer of salt. world. Her estimated worth is in excess of $4 As a social entrepreneur, Arison introduced Good Deeds billion. Although her wealth was inherited Day to Israel, believing that everyone, including people from her father, , she did not fritter with disabilities, can perform a good deed - even if it’s it away. only giving a smile to someone else. Within the frame- A tough businesswoman, she is also a social work of Good Deeds Day, the Arison Foundation absorbed entrepreneur and generous philanthropist Ruach Tova (Good Spirit), which links up individual and through the Ted Foundation group volunteers with individuals and organizations that (which she established with her father) and need their services. BankHapoalim, in which she has a controlling Some years ago, Arison recruited then-president interest. Shimon Peres to join a Good Deeds Day team in painting Her father made his fortune through the a rusty fence in a low-income Jerusalem neighborhood. cruise ship line Carnival Corporation, part of Well over half a million people representing nearly all sec- which is one of her largest assets. (Her brother tors of Israeli society sign up each year to do something for Mickey received the lion's share of the ship- others on Good Deeds Day, a day that has been emulated ping line.) in some 50 other countries. Arison Investments includes a number of In 2011, Arison launched Goodnet.org, an online facil- companies large and small, among them Shi- ity that enables would-be volunteers to connect with or- kun & Binui, Israel’s largest infrastructure and ganizations and business enterprises that work in certain real-estate group, in which Arison holds the fields of volunteerism to get together on voluntary good controlling stake. Shikun & Binui engages in deeds that best suit the interests of the volunteer. large-scale projects that include construction, She has also written several books on doing good and infrastructure, real estate, renewable energy giving of oneself to help make the world a better place. (Wikimedia Commons)