Yakir Gabay (Hebrew: יקיר גבאי, born 1966) is a Cypriot-Israeli billionaire real estate businessman, based in Cyprus.
[5] In 2004, Gabay established real estate investment activity in Berlin and expanded to other large cities in Germany, UK and the Netherlands in the residential, hotel and office markets.
[14][15] Aroundtown which is the largest listed commercial real estate company in Germany, merged in February 2020 with TLG Immobilien AG[16] which was traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with market cap of over €3 billion.
Aroundtown SA owns 40 percent of Grand City Properties, whose portfolio includes 60,000 apartments in Germany and over 3,000 in London.
[19] The strategy of the companies is based on the acquisition of real estate properties in central locations, their improvement and optimize return and creates an efficient management.
[22] Group members also held a video call in late April 2024 with New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to, according to reporting by The Washington Post, "pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus" to shut down criticism of Israel's offensive military operations in Gaza, which many campus protesters, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, civil servants, and governments around the world have alleged to be genocide.