Tamir Sapir (born Temur Sepiashvili, Georgian: თემურ სეფიაშვილი; 1946/1947 – September 24, 2014) was a Georgian-born, Georgian-American businessman, real estate developer and investor.
[5] In the early 1970s he studied journalism at Tbilisi State University but left to earn money to support his family because of his father's death.
He took a job processing emigration applications for Soviet Jews[5] and in 1973, he immigrated to Israel with his wife around the time of the Yom Kippur War.
[5][6] He then opened an electronics store with fellow immigrant Sam Kislin, Joy Lud International Distributors on Fifth Avenue, catering primarily to a Russian clientele.
[17] Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, friends of the couple, were invited to the June 1, 2008 bris of their infant son.
[17] Rotem Rosen was pivotal to Lev Leviev's April 2007 purchase of the Times Building on West 43rd Street for $525 million.