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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born July 30, 1956 in Tashkent, USSR) is a Bukharian-Israeli billionaire businessman, with a net worth of roughly $1.5 billion following the 2008 global financial crisis. Leviev has been described as one of the wealthiest Jewish individuals in the world and has been a major philanthropist for Jewish causes in Eastern Europe and Israel. His diamond mining investments in Angola and his investments in Israeli settlements have been the target of protests. Leviev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR in 1956, and today lives in England. His parents, Avner and Chana Leviev, were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community, and Leviev is a Chabad Orthodox Jew. In 1971, when he was fifteen, his family emigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel. Shortly afterwards, Leviev began to work as an apprentice in a diamond polishing plant, learning the 11 steps of the diamond cutting process. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he established his own diamond polishing plant.

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