Biography
Low-profile real estate Builder Elie Horn founded Cyrela Brazil Realty in 1978 and built it into the largest publicly traded developer of high-end residential buildings in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It operates in 17 states and 66 cities in Brazil. The company has existed for 50 years and has over dozens of thousand clients. A workaholic, he was born in Syria, arrived in Brazil when he was 11, and started working when he was 19. He reportedly still works 16 hours a day but respects Shabbat. He told the Brazilian press years ago that he planned to give away most of his fortune in his lifetime; he reportedly gives 60% of his to charity. Since 2006, Horn has been on the list of Forbes billionaires
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CYRELA Urbanismo
Cyrela is the largest homebuilder and real estate company by revenue and market value in Brazil. Considered one of the most solid of the civil construction sector, currently operates in 17 states and 55 cities in Brazil.