Gideon Bickel

Gideon Bickel is an Israeli businessman. Bickel was the owner of Flora Stock Exchange in Belgium. He was chairman and owner of Carmel Agrexco.

Biography

Bickel finished undergraduate studies in agronomy at the Hebrew University. He has several master degrees, and he holds a doctorate in social sciences from the University of Haifa. In addition, he graduated the National Security College with honors.

Bickel is a retired colonel (in reserve duty) in the IDF, a commander in the paratroopers and was wounded in Six-Day War during the break to Jerusalem. He served in Yom Kippur War and in the first Lebanon war, in 1982.

Career Bickel began his business career in 1968 as a farmer and exporter of agricultural produce. In 1997 acquired Flora, the flower exchange in Belgium, which was sold after six years of operation to a Belgian shopping center. In 2011, Bickel purchased Agrexco, an agricultural export company. Under his directorship, the company was renamed Carmel Agrexco.

Bickel is the owner of Hadarim, a shopping mall in Netanya.