Israel is 10th among the 15 countries in the world with the most millionaires as a percentage of the number of households, according to The Boston Consulting Group, in its report “Maintaining Momentum in a Complex World: Global Wealth 2013.”
Israel has a population of 7.7 million and 3.8% of the country’s households are millionaires, the report says. “Israel had about 84,000 millionaire households in 2012, and there are plenty of thriving businesses here to keep them afloat, from booming technology companies to exploiters of natural gas fields.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Hope the Israeli Millionaires are smart enough to move out of the communist state as long as Lapid is Finance Minister.
We also have the largest percentage of paupers, of those that don’t have what to eat
If only those 4% would help those at the other end of the spectrum, the world would be a better place
B”H the economy is doing well but the fact that 3.8% of Israel’s households are worth $1M+ is attributable, in no small part, to the housing bubble.
If Bill Gates walks into a bar, the average amount of wealth of everyone in the bar goes up dramatically. So what?
and they all come to us collect…