# Zohar Zisapel

zohar zisapel (born February 15, 1949; Hebrew: זהר זיסאפל‎), is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced high-tech industry, sometimes referred to as "the Bill Gates of Israel." The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda, has been called "the world's most successful incubator" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.0 magazine.The RAD Group employs 4,500 people and closed 2015 with a total of $1.234 billion in global sales. Four RAD Group companies are currently traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange: Ceragon Networks, Radware , RADCOM, and Silicom. == Life == === Early life === Zisapel was born in Tel Aviv, one of three children of immigrant parents from Poland who owned and ran a shoe store on Herzl Street, then one of the city’s main arteries.