Mitchell Goldhar

Mitchell Goldhar was born in 1962

Mitchell Goldhar was born in 1962 and lives in Toronto. He is Jewish. His father, Leo Goldhar, is Canadian, and his mother, Sala Goldhar, was a Holocaust survivor from Poland.

He studied political science at York University in Toronto and finished his bachelor's degree in 1985. He then went into business.

His company, SmartCentres, opened the first Walmart store in Canada in Barrie, Ontario, through a joint venture with Walmart chairman Rob Walton. The firm went on to build 70 more such centers across Canada, and he keeps a stake in its successor, SmartCentres REIT. He also donates to hospitals and community causes, including 3.5 million dollars for a cardiology department.

In August 2009 he bought Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club from Alex Schneider. Under his ownership the club won 7 league titles and 2 State Cups, and reached the Champions League in the 2015/2016 season.

In 2011 he filed a libel suit in Canada against the newspaper Haaretz over an article about him. In 2018 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the case should be heard in Israel. In October 2025 he became a father.