Israel Englander

Israel Alexander Englander (born September 30, 1948) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager.

As of September 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$27.6 billion.

Early life and education Israel "Izzy" Englander was born in 1948 and was raised in a Polish-Jewish family in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in a religious home and attended yeshiva.

In 1985, Englander and his partner John Mulheren Jr., started an investment firm called Jamie Securities Co. with a $75 million investment from the Belzberg family of Canada. Mulheren had previously worked as a trader for Ivan Boesky. In February 1988, when Boesky was later convicted of insider trading, and agreed to testify against Mulheren in a plea deal to receive a lesser sentence, and convicted of orchestrating illegal stock trades for Boesky, but the ruling was later overturned. Although Englander was never implicated in the matter in any way whatsoever, Jamie Securities was dissolved in 1988 due to the negative publicity in the aftermath of Mulheren's situation. in seed money (including $5 million from Englander himself and another $2 million from the Belzberg family). The firm got off to a rough start and Shear left in 1990. They have three children. In 2014, he bought a duplex apartment at New York City's Park Avenue for million, a record price for a Manhattan co-op.

In 2022, he acquired a $20 million apartment near Les Invalides in Paris, formerly owned by the Bettencourt family, founding family of L'Oréal.

Wealth and philanthropy In 2006, the Englander Foundation, headed by Englander and his wife, donated $20 million to mostly Jewish organizations and schools. and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. In March 2019, he was named one of the highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders by Forbes.