Judah "Yuli" Ofer (Hebrew: יולי עופר) (1924 – September 11, 2011) was an Israeli businessman in real estate and industry, and one of the wealthiest people in Israel.
[3] A member of the Ofer family, the annual Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires estimated in 2011 his fortune, together with that of his elder brother Sammy, to be $10.3 billion, ranked him in 2011 as the 79th in wealthiest people in the world, and the wealthiest man in Israel.
Yuli Ofer served in the Israeli Defense Forces in infantry and ended his relatively long military career at the rank of major.
In the 1980s the Ofer Brothers Group began getting into the tanker industry in Hong Kong and Singapore.
With time they also established a subsidiary company which focused on cruise ships named "Royal Caribbean".