The owner of the mall becomes one of the priests of Israel

After taking control of IDB 's Israeli holding, the entrepreneur Eduardo Elsztein became one of Israel' s most important businessmen, with an economic potential equivalent to 5. % of its GDP. Elsztein, advised by Mario Blejer, controls an IDB with supermarkets and pharmacies, high-tech telecommunications companies, an airline, land and more and more powerful real estate development, generating US $ 3.1 billion per year.

According to a report published this Sunday by ClarinThe owner of Mendoza Plaza Shopping and his flagship company, Irsa, is one of his badets, from the JP Morgan building in Manhattan to the Tivoli Casino in Las Vegas. One of his diamonds is the pension and insurance company in Israel, which is the second largest in the market and manages 40,000 million dollars. This is an important figure if we consider that the Israeli pension system amounts to 450 billion US dollars for its 9 million inhabitants. Almost identical to Argentine GDP.

According to Clarín, Irsa would have landed with a team of ten people under the direction of Elsztain, badisted by Saúl Zang, Mario Blejer, former Central Bank president, Mauricio Wior, Saúl Lapidus and Gerardo Tyszberowicz. Elsztain splits his time between Israel and Argentina, Blejer continues as an advisor, Lapidus is the CEO, Wior is in charge of telecommunications and Tyszberowicz is one of his managers. A few days later, they settle into the iconic new Tel Aviv building, the Toha, which they built in record time and designed by architect Ron Arad, inspired by an iceberg. With an economy that grows by 3% per year in a sustained way, with no inflation and a shekel, its currency, overvalued, the cost of money is several times lower than that of Argentina. The loans are in shekel long term with a fixed rate of less than 4%. The Toha, whose name uses what comes out of the earth, covers an area of ​​57,000 square meters and its 3,000 meters of floor are already rented, especially to technology companies, such as Intel, Motorola and WeWork . But the bread and butter of Gavyam, owned by the BID group, are its technology parks. There are 19 in 16 different cities.

The supermarket chain Shufersal, discount format, local stores, supermarkets and even special places for religious is the number one in Israel with 26% of the market, 15,000 employees, 347 stores, a map with 1.8 million members and revenues of US $ 1,000 million a year. They have just added a chain of Farmacity style pharmacies with 81 stores. With depository robots, automated boxes and staff acting as a purchasing consultant guiding the offers, indicates the future of trade in Argentina. They are currently accelerating conversion by promoting online sales which represent 17%. One of the secrets is its distribution center. Strategically located in central Israel with several floors high, it is managed by robots that qualify what happens and order orders according to the branch. The robots are talking to each other If one sector lacks a certain product, another one will do so. "The intelligent management of a stock of 20,000 items allows us to negotiate with our suppliers the best prices and transfer the benefits to the customer," says Tyszberowicz. "The robots solve a delivery order in 35 seconds – the trained man does it in 5 minutes," he adds.