Forbes published its annual roster of America’s wealthiest this week, and five Jews made the 2018 top-10 list.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leads the pack at #4, with a net worth of $61 billion. He is followed by software giant Oracle’s Larry Ellison at #5 with $58.4b and Google co-founder Larry Page at #6 with $53.8b.
Fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin falls a bit behind with $52.4b, leaving him at #9. Finally, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg closes out the top-10 with a respectable $51.8b.
The top three spots on the list are held by non-Jews, who have way more ‘gelt’ than the Jewish men: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet lead with $160b, $97b and $88b respectively.
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Does the “Jewish-ness” of any one of these people really make a difference? I would say that it certainly doesnt work in their favor. At least if they werent Jewish they wouldnt have a mitzvah of tzedaka. Now they are collectively negating the mitzva of tzedaka to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. And the non-Jewish children from their non-Jewish wives doesnt stand them in good stead either. Maybe we should refer to them rather as people “of Jewish descent”
EiZehu asheer hasomeach b’chelko
Bh I’m not jealous of any of them
Darn!
Missed it again!