Haim Saban

Haim Saban

Haim Saban is an Israeli-American media-mogul, a staunch Zionist and one of the biggest contributors to the campaigns of pro-Israel politicans in the US. He has also founded various centers and institutions to produce policy research favorable to Israel. He is a financial donor and founder of the Saban Institute for the Study of the American Political System at the University of Tel Aviv. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Brookings Institution. In 2002 he pledged $13 million to found the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution."^[1]

Citizen Saban

Saban is the founder of Saban Entertainment and Fox Family Worldwide. More recently, he has made significant new gains. In 2003 he bought ProSiebenSat.1, Germany's largest privately-owned television network. ^[2] In 2006, he acquired Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-broadcasting television company in the US for the price of USD 12.3 billion. ^[3]

Quotes

"I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel".

Affiliations

• Saban Center for Middle East Policy - Funder/Founder
• Saban Institute for the Study of the American Political System - Funder/Founder
• ProSiebenSat.1 - Owner
• Univision Communications - Owner

Related Articles

• ^Andrew Ross Sorkin, Schlepping to Moguldom(interview), New York Times, September 5, 2004
• ^Barbarian at the gates?, The Economist, October 2, 2003
• ^ Nimrod Avraham, [Saban buys US TV company http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268868,00.html], YNet, June 29, 2006
• Dan Ackman, Mighty Morphin Haim Saban, Forbes.com, March 17, 2003.