Stef wertheimer autobiography range
In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of strife and struggle in one of the world's newest industrial powers.
Born in Kippenheim, Germany in , Stef Wertheimer immigrated to Mandate Palestine in with his family and became one of Israel's wealthiest citizens..
Stef Wertheimer
Israeli industrialist and politician
Stef Wertheimer[1] (Hebrew: זאב סטף ורטהיימר, born 16 July ) is an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician.
He was a Member of the Knesset, and is known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries.[2] The Wertheimers are Israel's richest family as of [3]
Biography
Stef (Ze'ev) Wertheimer was born in Kippenheim, Germany to a Jewish family.[4][5] His family fled to Mandatory Palestine in to escape Nazism.[5]
He studied in the Tel-Nordau School in Tel Aviv but dropped out of school at age 16 and started working in a camera repair store.[6] At the same time, he began studying optics with Professor Emanuel Goldberg, a researcher and inventor who contributed significantly to different aspects of imaging technology in the first half of the twentieth century.[7]
In , during World War I