Mikhael Mirilashvili

Mikhael Mirilashvili is a businessman and social-cause supporter. Originally from Georgia, Mirilashvili does business primarily in Russia and Israel, focusing on residential and commercial real estate, casinos, media, and renewable energy. After completing academic studies as a mathematician, Mirilashvili became a medical doctor, specializing in pediatrics. Eventually, Mirilashvili left medicine and became part of his family’s real estate outfits. He is the president of Petromir, a Russian holdings company, and the director of Lukoil North West Petroleum. Mirilashivili is also the owner of a television channel and several St. Petersburg-based shopping malls and business spaces.

He serves as president of CONTI, Russia’s largest gambling corporation; Jackpot, Mirilashvili’s network of slot machines, is Europe’s largest. In 2006, Mirilashvili launched Vkontakte, a Russian social media platform.Beyond Russia, Mirilashvili has built companies in Israel, including the venture capital fund Kitaim, Flarium Global, Be’er Isaac Energy, and Hoshen Argaman. Mirilashvili is a supporter of many Jewish and Israeli causes. He is the president of the Saint Petersburg Jewish Congress, and is vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress. He is also first vice president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, president of Russia’s Maccabi Union, and president of Georgia’s “Torah and Chessed” Center. In 2021, Mirilashvili established the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Food Security in the Desert at the Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a supporter of the Migdalor organization for residential education in Israel’s north. Mirilashvili has donated Torah scrolls to various IDF units and he is a Chairman of the International Board of Trustees of ZAKA. In response to international disasters and events, Mirilashvili has partnered with others to provide relief and services. He and Alexander Mashkevitch funded a fleet of fire-fighting vehicles after the Carmel Forest Fire in 2010. In 2012, in the aftermath of the terror attack in Bulgaria, he sponsored the air travel for the delegation of doctors and paramedics who traveled to the region to help. In Abu Dhabi, Mirilashvili supports a joint Israeli-Emirati Water Research Institute which is part of Tel Aviv University.