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rate. Its projects include a microfinance venture in collaboration with Swazi chiefs to provide "affordable loans and financial literacy training to Swazi women." By 2015, around 20,000 people were employed by small-scale businesses started by the fund. In 2021, Kirsh funded a mission for humanitarian
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agreed to buy a minority share of Jetro
Holdings, however, he and Kirsh could not agree on terms. As of August 2018, Kirsh owned 75 percent of Jetro Holdings, which had about 115 Jetro Cash & Carry and Restaurant Depot stores in the United States. That year, the
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government prevented white business-owners from operating in black townships, and Kirsh began using Moshal
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In 1952, Kirsh began assisting his mother with the operation of his father's original malt factory in
Potchefstroom, then, in 1958, launched his own first venture, founding a corn milling and malt business in
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in 1993. In 2009, Kirsh was a director and held a 24.2 percent stake in Magal
Security, which met controversy by providing fences in Israel. In 2014, Kirsh sold his 40 percent stake in Magal to FIMI.
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Gevisser, a South African wholesale food distributor with a pilot cash and carry program. At the time, the South African
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operation Jetro
Holdings, owner of Restaurant Depot and Jetro Cash & Carry. The Group also holds equity and investments in Australia, Eswatini, the UK, the US, and Israel. He lives in
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through education, community partnerships, workplace engagement and advocacy in the United States. It is endorsed by the
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In recent years the fund has also focused on financing business startups and computer education in high schools and
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with the purpose of promoting and securing the Jewish people and Israel. His foundation also spearheaded
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businessman and philanthropist. He heads the Kirsh Group, which holds a majority stake in New York state
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