Tel Aviv, May 20, 2025 – Time Magazine named Sylvan Adams, a Canadian and Israeli philanthropist, actual property entrepreneur and president of the World Jewish Conference Israeli area on its early charity listing. The full listing is revealed within the time problem of June 9, 2025, and is obtainable on newsstands on Friday, May thirtieth, and is at the moment accessible at time.com/time100-philanthropy.
Adams has joined a bunch of famend international changemakers together with David Beckham, Melinda French Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, Lynn Manuel Miranda and Oprah Winfrey. This listing celebrates artists, entrepreneurs, scientists and traders whose philanthropy is driving revolutionary and complete options to the world’s most urgent challenges.
According to Time’s profile, Adams was partially acknowledged for Negev’s historic $100 million donations to Ben Gurion University, introduced two months after the October 7, 2023 assault on Hamas. One of the best charitable presents in Israel’s historical past, the reward is meant to help financial revitalization within the “area’s largest employer,” and displays Adams’ perception that “financial alternatives are wanted to flee the savages and catastrophic assaults on October seventh.” Time factors out that Adams has given a lot collectively, at the very least yearly, over practically a decade that has induced Israel and past, from training to healthcare to humanitarian assist.
“We are honored to be included on the Time100 charity listing,” Sylvan Adams mentioned. “Charity is not nearly giving, it is about constructing bridges between communities, tradition and nations. My mission was to share Israel’s story with the world, promote understanding, and encourage constructive change by way of significant motion.”
As the one Israelite of the pledge to present, Adams dedicated most of his wealth to charitable causes. His Sylvan Adams Family Foundation is investing in tasks that help Jewish group establishments in North America and strengthen Israel’s resilience, international standing and scientific management.
In 2023, Adams was chosen to mild the torch at Israel’s seventy fifth Independence Day ceremony, symbolizing the shared destiny of Israel and the diaspora. Earlier this yr, he was unanimously appointed president of the World Jewish Conference Israel area, main efforts to advertise international Jewish unity and strengthen worldwide help for Israel.