Philanthropy

After spending $90,000 to take down an obscene billboard, his act of kindness—and a simple countdown—led Coca-Cola to surprise him with $3 million.

Raphael Barbi, a flourishing businessman from Paris, left his bourgeois life to establish Israel's first and only supermarket for the needy. On living in Kfar Saba, luxury cars, the deal he made while on his deathbed, and the food kitchen he recently opened in memory of the soldier Yosef Cohen z"l: "He is my soulmate." The angel Raphael