Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer. These are the billionaires who make up the top of Forbes Israel’s 2026 World’s Jewish Billionaires List. Their combined wealth is currently estimated at more than $1.1 trillion, and each of them also ranks among the 15 richest people in the world. In other words, one out of every three mega-billionaires at the pinnacle of global wealth is of Jewish descent.
They created their immense fortunes with their own two hands. Not a single one inherited their wealth. All of them, without exception, each in their own domain, possess a rare entrepreneurial instinct. They led the digital revolution of our generation, created massive technology empires – and along the way, through productive enterprise, accumulated enormous wealth during their lifetimes. Each played a critical role in creating companies like Google, Oracle, Facebook, Dell, or Microsoft, which became giants in their fields and changed the world order.
And they’re not alone. Throughout the list, woven alongside them are the names of those who created new media worlds, led the artificial intelligence revolution, transformed culture, or built global financial empires.
They achieved this thanks to an economic system that rewards innovation and individual creation – a system that enshrines the values of free enterprise, market economics, and personal property rights. That same capitalist system enabled minorities and immigrants, talented entrepreneurs with vision, to translate skill, ability, and personal initiative into creativity, achievement, and a great deal of money.
For this very reason, the list presented before you is far more than a wealth ranking summarizing the total assets and net worth of a given individual. It is documentation of inspiring achievement.
The Jewish World’s Billionaires List is a unique international project by Forbes Israel, based on the global billionaires list – Forbes World’s Billionaires List – which Forbes Israel partners in creating. All wealth data for individuals on the list is based on Forbes’ updated billionaires list. Similar to the preparation of financial reports or company valuations, Forbes’ wealth rankings represent a snapshot of billionaires’ net worth globally as of a specific point in time; therefore, fluctuations and changes in billionaires’ wealth can occur shortly after publication.
Larry vs. Larry
Hard to believe, but until last September, Larry Ellison was unquestionably marked as the year’s biggest winner among the world’s wealthiest and the one who would undoubtedly be crowned, for the second year running, “the top-ranked Jewish billionaire.”
At that time, software giant Oracle, in which he holds approximately 41% of the company’s shares, recorded one of the largest single-day wealth accumulations Wall Street has ever witnessed, with a daily surge of over 35% following the release of exceptionally strong growth forecasts. Oracle updated projections anticipating that company revenues from its cloud division would multiply eightfold over the next four years: from $18 billion in 2025 to $144 billion in 2029 – pouring tons of gasoline on the already boiling AI bonfire.
In accordance with the meteoric stock jump, Ellison’s net worth naturally skyrocketed as well. Ellison, whose total fortune on the eve of trading on that historic day was valued by Forbes at approximately $290 billion, ballooned alongside the sharp stock surge to approximately $388 billion, logging nearly $100 billion in profit in a single day – the largest single-day wealth accumulation recorded by any individual billionaire ever.
They led the digital revolution of our generation, created massive technology empires – and along the way, through productive enterprise, accumulated enormous wealth during their lifetimes
But – the AI gave, and the AI has taken away. From that historic September day, the stock began rapidly losing altitude, and by the time the list closed, it had erased half its gains.
This occurred primarily due to mounting investor concerns about an “artificial intelligence bubble.” More and more investors began viewing the development of an actual bubble as a central risk to markets and opened positions against Oracle stock as part of a broader bet against the AI sector – and the stock was brutally cut down.
As a mirror image, the total net worth of Ellison, based almost entirely on his substantial stake in the global software giant, was also slashed. From that peak and within just a few months, Ellison erased $143 billion by year’s end. Now, the Jewish billionaire’s net worth is estimated at approximately $190 billion – enough for him to rank only third on the list.
On the flip side, Google rose as the new-old victor, crowning its founder, Larry Page, as “the new champion.” That same Google which until recently was buried by experts under the tsunami wave of artificial intelligence that created AI-powered assassins – “Google killers” like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude – and in a sharp reversal became the one riding it hardest.
Alphabet, the parent company, benefited from growing optimism surrounding its artificial intelligence activities, which translated into a phenomenal 115% stock surge between April and December, and in early 2026 achieved a historic milestone when it reached a market valuation of $4 trillion (only Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft had done so before it).
The new AI model it launched last November, Gemini 3, received wall-to-wall praise, and simultaneously, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway – whose technology investments can be counted on one hand – also joined the celebration and revealed holdings of nearly $5 billion in the information and technology giant.
Six Jewish billionaires rank among the 15 richest people in the world with a combined fortune of over $1.1 trillion. In other words, one out of every three mega-billionaires comprising the pinnacle of global wealth is of Jewish descent
Its two Jewish founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were naturally the primary beneficiaries of the fantastic year for the company they founded together in the late 20th century. Page, who founded Google with Brin in 1998, currently holds an estimated fortune of approximately $257 billion. The visionary entrepreneur’s wealth has swelled dramatically in recent years: from $51 billion in 2020 to $144 billion in early 2025. Since then, in less than a year, he has added over $110 billion to his fortune. Page is not only the richest Jew in the world and ranked #2 on the global billionaires list, second only to Elon Musk (although Musk’s net worth is three times that of Page). His partner, Sergey Brin, also grew wealthier by many billions this year, surpassed Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and became the third richest person in the world (and second richest Jew) with an estimated fortune of approximately $237 billion.
