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HEIGHT: 50px" height=50> <IMG height=10 src="images/curve-blue.gif" width=300 vspace=10> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD></TD> <TD vAlign=top align=left colspan=2> <IMG height=25 src="images/AboutUsHeader.gif" width=120 vspace=10> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top rowspan=2 width=250 align=left style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> <IMG height=274 alt="Mr. Avram(Dolphy) Goldstein-Goren" src ="Photos/goldstein_small.jpg" width=210 align=middle vspace=5 > </TD> <TD colspan=2 align=left class=paragraphhead valign=top height=20> Mr. Avram(Dolphy) Goldstein-Goren <BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top colspan=2> Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein-Goren, the founder of the Cukier, Goldtein-Goren Foundation, was born on July 28, 1905 in Podu Turcului, a shtatl in the district of Tecuci, in Romania. <BR><BR> Mr. Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein-Goren is the son of Itzhak Moshe (IMG) Goldstein, a prominent local businessman, and Betty (Bracha) Wechsler of Iasi. He attended contemporarily both Law School and Business School at the University of Bucharest (1924-1927) and was a member of the Romanian Bar from 1927 to 1941, when all Jews were expelled from it. <BR><BR> In 1939 he married Stella Cukier, the daughter of Mordechai Meir Cukier, a textile manufacturer and businessman who had emigrated from Poland a few years earlier, and Ghitla Gold. <BR> Avram and Stella had four children. Two sons, Alexander and James, who live in New York City, and two daughters, Viviana and Micaela, who live respectively in Rome and Milan, Italy. <BR> After managing a family controlled bank and helping his father in his cereal exports and forest exploitation businesses in Tecuci, Avram moved to Bucharest where he was a manager and a director of Sarcomit S.A., a textile importing and trading company and of Filsar S.A. <BR><BR> In April 1944 Avram left Romania for Palestine with his wife, eldest son and his in-laws. <BR><BR> From 1945 to 1947 he was a director and part owner of the Palestine British Bank and in 1945 he also established Palbric, an international trading company. <BR><BR> At the end of 1945 Avram contracted to buy very large quantities of the raw cotton that had accumulated in Egypt during the war in order to have it spun in Italy into yarn to be shipped back to the Middle East. In mid-1946 he needed to relocate to Milan, Italy and he brought over his family. Since then he has lived in Milan. <BR><BR> In 1946 he established the Mediterranean Car Agency Ltd. for the import of Fiat vehicles to the Middle East first and, after 1948, only to Israel. <BR> Starting in the early fifties, Avram extended his business activities to France (construction), Canada (real estate), United States ( investment in shares and company takeovers) and, in the seventies, Great Britain, where he was a shareholder and director of Keyser Ullman Ltd., a merchant bank that was eventually merged into the Charterhouse Group. He remained a director of Keyser Ullmann, Geneve, until 1983. <BR> <BR> On November 26, 2005, four months after a spectacular celebration on the beach, in Forte dei Marmi, of his one hundreath birthday, which he greatly enjoyed surrounded lovingly by all his family and by friends from all over the world, Dolphy passed away quietly in his Milan home.<BR>It was a peaceful ending to a tumultuous and wonderful life of which he savored every minute. He was buried at Nachalet Itzhak in Tel Aviv, next to his beloved wife, Stella, and to his parents, Itzhak Moshe (IMG) and Bracha Goldstein.<BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top rowspan=2 width=250 align=left > <IMG height=168 alt="Mr. Mordechai Meir (Max) Cukier" src ="Photos\Cukier.jpg" width=209 align=middle vspace=5 > </TD> <TD colspan=2 align=left class=paragraphhead valign=top height=20> Mr. Mordechai Meir (Max) Cukier <BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top colspan=2> Mordechai Meir (Max) Cukier was born in Lodz, Poland in 1888, the son of a devout Chassid and a mother born to a very wealthy and worldly industrial family. He was given only a formal religious education and learned secular subjects from his older sisters. <BR><BR> At 16 he was sent to Vienna for 1 year and returned with a weaver's diploma. In 1914 he married Gittel (Guta) Gold and they had three children: Stella, who married Avram (Dolphi) Goldstein, Jacob (Jurek), who married Wanda Schechter and Irena (Irca), who married first Dr. Jacha Fromchenko and then Dr. Aristide Basarab. <BR><BR> By age thirteen he rebelled against his father, abandoned Torah studies and was employed in a textile factory. The textile business in Lodz was very cyclical. World War I and the Great Depression aggravated this characteristic and periods of great affluence alternated with very hard times. In turns, as required, Max traded in textiles and/or manufactured them. <BR><BR> In 1930 he went to Romania to look for employment. He set up a manufacturing business in Jassi in partnership with a member of a very prominent local textile family: Arthur Wechsler, Dolphi's uncle. By 1936 they had moved the business to Bucharest. <BR><BR> In April 1944, together with Dolphi and his family, Max left Romania for Palestine with Guta and Irca. Jurek stayed behind to marry his fiancée, and they arrived in Palestine a few months later. <BR><BR> In 1945 Max and Dolphi in partnership with Ephraim Ilin, contracted to buy in Egypt cotton to be spun in Italy for re-export to Palestine. The business was extremely lucrative but Max was itching to get back into textile manufacturing. In 1960 he and Dolphi, together with Dolphi's uncle, Carol Wechsler, Arthur's older brother, and the latter's son-in-law, Isi Leventer built a large spinning mill in Dimona, Dimona Fibers, where, at the apex, they employed 1,800 workers. <BR><BR> In 1962 his dear Guta passes away leaving an enormous void. By 1970 the partnership in Dimona Fibers was falling apart and Max and Dolphi ended-up 100% owners. With Dolphi travelling all over the world and Max over 80 years old the only solution was to sell. Pinchas Sapir, a friend of Dolphi's, found a buyer at a good price but with a string attached: the proceeds would go towards building the new University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva. This is how the Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Foundation was born. <BR><BR> Having lived a very full, interesting and successful life, Max Cukier died on May 10, 1972 in his house on Shderot Rothschild, in Tel-Aviv. <BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top rowspan=2 width=250 align=left style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> &nbsp;<img alt="Mrs. Micaela Goren Monti" src="Photos/MIchi.jpg" width="210" /></TD> <TD colspan=2 align=left class=paragraphhead valign=top height=20> Mrs. Micaela Goren Monti<BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top colspan=2> Micaela is a daughter of Avram Goldstein-Goren and Stella Cukier; she was born in Milano. As a Board member, since 2002 she has filled the role of Finance Manager and Administrator of the C, G-G Foundation. Micaela is also a Board Member of the Jerusalem Foundation, Vice President of the Board of CDEC (Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea) since 2003, Board Member of the Memoriale Binario 21. She is also involved in cultural Foundations as a Board member of Poldi Pezzoli Museum since 2002 and was a Board member of Accademia Arti e Mestieri della Scala 2001-2005. <br /> <br /> Micaela Graduated in Lettere e Filosofia, and after a Master in Retail Management in Boston, Mass. developed an entrepreneurial career opening her textile buying office in Milano 1978-1995, when she ran and was elected to the General Assembly of Regione Lombardia 1995-2000. In 2001 she started working with her father Dolphy in financial management learning from him,  stealing his secrets as Dolphy liked to say. <br /> <br /> In May 2006 she ran and was elected for a 5-year term as Borough President of the Center of Milano. <br /> <br /> Micaela has been married since 1973 to Michele Monti, an Italian lawyer, LL.M Harvard, whose career includes positions as General Counsel of IBM Italy, founding partner of Andersen Legal, General Counsel of the Italian Stock Exchange, Board member of several companies including the London Stock Exchange; he is currently of Counsel, Bird & Bird, Milan. <br /> <br /> They have three children. <br /> <br /> Mattia (1975), Ingegnere, Politecnico of Milan, MBA NYU Stern, 2005, BetaGammaSigma, Vice President of JPMorgan, New York; married to Paola Balzarotti, journalist. They have two children Matteo Avram and Beatrice Stella. <br /> <br /> Martin (1978), Economics, Univ. Bocconi of Milan, PhD Cognitive Neurosciences Princeton, 2007; Researcher at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (2007-10); Jan 2011 Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neurosciences, UCLA, Ca <br /> <br /> Matilde (1987) Psicology, Univ. Cattolica of Milan, 2010, works in communications with Attila, Milan. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top rowspan=2 width=250 align=left style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> &nbsp;<img alt="Mr. Alexander Goren" src="Photos/Alex.jpg" width="210" /></TD> <TD colspan=2 align=left class=paragraphhead valign=top height=20> Mr. Alexander (Alex) Goren&nbsp;<BR><BR> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top colspan=2> Alexander (Alex) Goren is the oldest son of Avram Goldstein- Goren and Stella Cukier. He was born in Bucharest, Romania, on February 19, 1940. From 2006 to 2010 he was the President of the C, G-G Foundation. In addition to his work for the Foundation, Alex is also, since 2009, the President of the American Associates of Ben Gurion University as well as a long- serving Board Member of Ben Gurion University, of Harvard Hillel and of New York City Outward Bound. He and his brother, James, are partners in the private investment firm of Goren Brothers.<br /> <br /> Alex received his M.B.A. from the Columbia Graduate Business School in 1963 and in 1979 he finished the OMP program at the Harvard Graduate Business School. He received his B.A. in economics from Harvard University in 1961.<br /> <br /> After Columbia Business School, Alex worked two years in finance in Montreal, Canada, before returning to Italy. In Milan he worked one year for Caboto s.p.a., a merchant bank, and for three years in import/export and in textiles with his father. At the end of 1969, he moved with his family to London and worked for four years at Keyser Ullmann, a merchant bank. In 1973, he moved to Tel Aviv where he took over the management and expansion of the family owned FIAT distributorship, the Mediterranean Car Agency.<br /> <br /> Alex has two children from his first marriage. Andrea earned his BA from Connecticut College in 1989 and his MBA from Columbia University in 1994. He is married to Bettina Bosé, who gave up her career as Vice-president of the Disney Corporation in order to become a full time mother. They live in New York City and have two daughters Eliel Dax and Sivan Lilu, and a son, Akiva Elessar. Elisabeth (Selina), earned her BA in philosophy from Franklin and Marshall in 1991and an MS in economic urban development form University College, London in 1997. She lives in Savyon with her husband, Ari Komeran, BS and MS from Ben Gurion University and a Manager of Business Development at Intel Israel. They have two daughters, Elior Sara and Amaris Maxine.<br /> <br /> Alex met his present wife, Brooke Kroeger, in the early 1980s, while she was based in Tel Aviv as bureau chief of UPI. She is now a professor at New York University and director of the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her daughter, Brett Kroeger, earned her BM from Lawrence University in 1999 and a Master in Voice Performance from the Mannes College of Music in 2003. She lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with her husband, Joshua Weiner, a Director at First Reserve, and with their son, Jacoby David. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=700 align=center border=0 bordercolor=darkblue> <TR> <TD class=BottomToolBar ><A href="index.html">Home</A></TD> <TD class=BottomToolBar><A href="projects.html">Projects</A></TD> <TD class=BottomToolBar><A href="InDevelopment.html">In Development</A></TD> <TD class=BottomToolBar><A href="News.html">News</A></TD> <TD class=BottomToolBar><A href="mailto:contact@goldstein-goren.org">Contact Us</A></TD> </TR> <TR bgColor=#ffffff> <TD colspan=5 class=copyright align=middle> <BR> ©Copyright 2002 Cukier,Goldstein-Goren Foundation </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </body> </HTML>