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Billionaire philanthropist Morris Kahn dies at 95
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Morris Kahn attends a ceremony at the Knesset on May 6, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Israeli billionaire and philanthropist Morris Kahn has died at age 95, according to the Ynet news site.
Kahn, a native of South Africa, moved to Israel in 1956.
He co-founded Amdocs, a management-and-billing software firm for large telecom outfits, and in recent years has increasingly focused his attention on philanthropy and venture philanthropy in the scientific and medical fields, including founding an underwater observatory in Eilat and as the chairman of SpaceIL.
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