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Salomón Cohen Levy (28 May 1927 – 24 June 2018) was a Moroccan Jewish-Venezuelan civil engineer and real estate businessman. He was the founder and owner of the construction company
Sambil Centro Sambil Caracas, located in Caracas, Venezuela, is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet (250,000 square metres). The mall has five ''levels ...
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Biography

Salomón Cohen was born in Jerusalem, then in the British Mandate of Palestine, into a Moroccan Jewish family which resided in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. His family moved to
Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
, the capital of Venezuela, at the age of three, when his father Ezra Sión Cohen looking for a better future in the thriving Latin American country. He studied at the Liceo Andrés Bello. In 1951, he obtained a degree in civil engineering at the Central University of Venezuela. He started his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing during the mandate of President Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1953. He left his post at the ministry and was appointed as manager at
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. Cohen was a member of the
Israelite Association of Venezuela The Israelite Association of Venezuela, (Spanish: ''Asociación Israelita de Venezuela''), known as Tiferet Israel, founded in the 1920s by Sephardic Jews, is the oldest surviving Jewish organization in Venezuela. An association of Sephardic Jews, ...
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Business ventures and investments

In 1953 he founded Constructora Sambil, and became a real estate businessman. His first major project was the Lido shopping mall located in
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; with a mix of offices and hotel rooms, it gave birth to the Lidotel chain. In 1998 it expanded into a growing developing business, the building and administration of shopping malls, opening the
Centro Sambil Centro Sambil Caracas, located in Caracas, Venezuela, is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet (250,000 square metres). The mall has five ''level ...
located in Chacao. Later on more Shopping malls openings followed in other cities in Venezuela,
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and the Dominican Republic. In 2012, his company purchased the Spanish shopping mall Avenida M-40, which closed in 2010 due to the effects of the economic crisis of 2008. Sambil was renovating it and planned to re-open it as an outlet center in the summer of 2015. It will be renamed Sambil Outlet Madrid. After his death on June 24, 2018, all Sambil shopping malls in the country closed their doors for three days as a sign of mourning.


See also

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Centro Sambil Centro Sambil Caracas, located in Caracas, Venezuela, is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet (250,000 square metres). The mall has five ''level ...


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Salomon Cohen Levy Resume
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