{{Short description|Israeli businessman}} {{protection padlock|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Zari David (Bebo) Kovo | native_name = בבו קובו | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Eliezer Kovo | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Businessman | known_for = Camden Town, Stables Market | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Ruth Braha|1973|2006|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|[[Miri Bohadana]]|2008}} }} | children = 6, including [[O. D. Kobo|Oded David Kobo]] }}
'''Zari David''' "'''Bebo'''" '''Kovo''' ({{Langx|he|בבו קובו}})<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3412147,00.html|title=בבו קובו: סוחר הג'ינסים שנהפך לטייקון לונדוני|date=22 July 2010|website=[[Calcalist]]|access-date=3 October 2018|first=Assaf|last=Gilad}}</ref> is an Israeli-Bulgarian property developer. He was one of the partners of property company Camden Market Holdings & Developments.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/03/16/teddy-sagi-buys-londons-camden-stables-market-in-deal-valued-at-us664-million/|title=Teddy Sagi Buys London's Camden Stables Market in Deal Valued at US$664 Million|first=Bargainsfound|last=Says|date=16 March 2014|newspaper=[[Jewish Business News]]|access-date=22 June 2019}}</ref> Kobo was convicted in 1979 of raping a woman who was a passenger in his car, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000287530|title=הפסד לבבו קובו בערעור: הרשעתו באונס תיכלל בתגובה לתביעת הדיבה שהגיש|first=Yitzhak|last=Danon|date=17 December 2007|newspaper=[[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1466020|title=ביהמ"ש: הרשעת בבו קובו באונס רלוונטית לתביעת הדיבה נגד "אנשים"|newspaper=Haaretz|date=18 December 2007}}</ref>
==Career== In the 1970s, Kobo was based in Hong Kong, as a clothing manufacturer, working closely with the Nakash Group, who owned the fashion brand [[Jordache]].<ref name="Haaretz2">{{cite news |last1=Sadeh |first1=Shuki |date=10 June 2016 |title=Who Is Oded Kobo? Natural-born Businessman or Celebrity Sidekick |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2016-06-10/ty-article/.premium/who-is-oded-kobo/0000017f-dc07-df9c-a17f-fe1fc2280000 |access-date=5 October 2016 |work=Haaretz}}</ref>
In the 1990s, Kobo alongside [[Richard Caring]], and [[Elliott Bernerd]], head of the British property company [[Chelsfield]], teamed up to acquire London's [[Camden Market]] as well other properties in Camden Town. In 2014, they sold "a huge swathe" to fellow Israeli, the gambling billionaire [[Teddy Sagi]], for £440 million.<ref name="Haaretz">{{cite news|last1=Sadeh|first1=Shuki|title=Who Is Oded Kobo? Natural-born Businessman or Celebrity Sidekick|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2016-06-10/ty-article/.premium/who-is-oded-kobo/0000017f-dc07-df9c-a17f-fe1fc2280000|access-date=5 October 2016|newspaper=Haaretz|date=10 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/restaurant-tycoon-richard-caring-earns-260m-war-chest-for-new-ventures-after-camden-market-deal-9189523.html |title=Restaurant tycoon Richard Caring earns £260m 'war chest' for new ventures after Camden Market deal |newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]] |date=13 March 2014 |access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is the father of businessman [[O.D. Kobo|Oded David Kobo]].<ref name="Haaretz"/>
In 2015, he bought a 460 sq m house in [[Arsuf, Hof HaSharon|Arsuf]], for 16 million Nis, as part of a creditors' arrangement for brothers Eliyahu and Moshe Shushan and brothers Gad and Dov Slook.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-bebo-kobo-buys-home-near-herzliya-for-nis-16m-1001091351|title=Bebo Kobo buys home near Herzliya for NIS 16m|newspaper=[[Globes (newspaper)|Gobes]]|access-date=5 October 2016|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009102633/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-bebo-kobo-buys-home-near-herzliya-for-nis-16m-1001091351|archive-date=9 October 2016|first=Sapir|last=Kalfon}}</ref>
In 2020, he married Israeli model [[Miri Bohadana]], with whom he had been in a relationship since 2005.<ref name="Haaretz2" />
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