Izak Parviz Nazarian (Persian: اسحاق پرویز نظریان Is'ḥaq Parvêz Nazariyân; February 24, 1929 – August 23, 2017) was an Iranian-born American billionaire, businessman, investor, real-estate developer, and philanthropist.
[5] In 1943, in the midst of World War II, he worked as a waiter's assistant on a United States Army base in Iran.
[6] Unable to fight, he resumed his service in the Israel Defense Forces and became Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir's chauffeur.
[3] By 1985, he co-founded Omninet with Irwin M. Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi, initially to track the flow of trucks from one construction site to another.
[5] Nazarian was the founder of the Magbit Foundation, a non-profit organization which gives scholarships to university students in Israel.
[10] Moreover, he was recognized as one of four "philanthropic visionaries" alongside Guilford Glazer, Jona Goldrich and Max Webb by the American Friends of Tel Aviv University at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in 2013.
[3][12][13] In 2009, he published an opinion piece entitled 'Israel must address flawed electoral system' in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.