Jawdat Ibrahim is an Israeli-Arab millionaire who has established a fund that gives scholarships to both Arab and Jewish university students, and has hosted informal peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders at his popular Abu Ghosh restaurant.[1][2] Ibrahim lived in Chicago for six years, but returned to Israel after winning $17.5 million in the Illinois State Lottery.[2]
In 2010 Ibrahim funded a project to reclaim the world record for the world's largest hummus from Lebanon in the Israeli arab town of Abu Ghosh. The world record breaking hummus weighed 4,090kg.[3] The new record was described by Israel's Army radio as the Third Lebanon War