Yossi Maiman was born in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany.
[1] His mother, Esfira Maiman, is a Holocaust survivor from Łódź; she escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and hid in Grodzisk Mazowiecki during World War II.
[1] In 2008, the Roman Catholic woman who saved her, Stanisława Sławińska, was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
[2] Through a subsidiary, it invests in sugarcane and ethanol production,[4] It also owns a concession from the Egyptian government to export natural gas to Israel.
[2] In June 2003, Maiman, Hussein Salem and the General Petroleum Company of Egypt formed the Eastern Mediterranean Gas (EMG) consortium.
[2] According to Globes, Maiman stepped down as a result of losses incurred in the wake of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, when contracts for the distribution of gas between Egypt and Israel fell through.
[14] During the trial, the prosecutor, Marco Cárdenas, suggested Maiman's financial privacy should be lifted to complete his investigation.