Mitchell Goldhar is a Canadian billionaire and businessman. He owned SmartCentres, a firm that developed Walmart-anchored shopping malls in

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, and retains a significant ownership stake in its successor firm SmartCentres REIT. Since August 2009, he is also the owner of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club. Goldhar was born in 1962. He completed his bachelor's degree at

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. Goldhar's net worth is estimated at $2.6 billion USD as of December 2019. In 2010, Goldhar bought the sweater Paul Henderson wore while scoring the decisive final goal in the Summit Series; it was being auctioned off by an anonymous American collector for US$1,067,538 (a world record for hockey memorabilia). On December 30, 2011, Goldhar issued a libel notice against '' Haaretz'', an Israeli newspaper, after they published an article that Goldhar claimed was libel. Haaretz responded by challenging the lawsuit, on the basis of a lack of jurisdiction and

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. In 2018 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the case could not be heard in Canada, and that if Goldar wished to pursue the case further, it must be done in Israel. He is

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. His father Leo Goldhar is Canadian, and his mother Sala Goldhar (née Armal) was a

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from Poland.

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