President
Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lev Leviev was born in the then Soviet city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His father, Rabbi Avner and his mother Chana Leviev were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. At the age of fifteen in 1971 his family emigrated to Israel. Shortly after, Lev began to work as an apprentice in a diamond polishing plant, and following his military service, he established his own diamond polishing plant.
With the fall of Communism in the early 1990s, Lev Leviev looked to expand his business endeavors into Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. After consultation with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson of righteous memory, he received both the Rebbe's blessing for success and a request that he should continue the path of generosity of his parents and grandparents and rebuild Jewish life in the Former Soviet republics. [more]
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