{{short description|Israeli businessman}} {{Infobox person | birthname = | native_name = גדעון ביקל | native_name_lang = he | image = Gideon bickel.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | alma_mater = | occupation = | networth = | spouse = | children = }} '''Gideon Bickel''' ({{langx|he|גדעון ביקל}}) is an Israeli businessman. Bickel was the owner of Flora Stock Exchange in Belgium. He was chairman and owner of Carmel Agrexco.
== Biography == {{BLP unreferenced section|date=June 2022}} Bickel finished undergraduate studies in agronomy at the Hebrew University. He has several master degrees, and he holds a doctorate in social sciences from the University of Haifa. In addition, he graduated the National Security College with honors.
Bickel is a retired colonel (in reserve duty) in the IDF, a commander in the paratroopers and was wounded in Six-Day War during the break to Jerusalem. He served in Yom Kippur War and in the first Lebanon war, in 1982.
== Career == Bickel began his business career in 1968 as a farmer and exporter of agricultural produce. In 1997 acquired Flora, the flower exchange in Belgium, which was sold after six years of operation to a Belgian shopping center.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} In 2011, Bickel purchased Agrexco, an agricultural export company.<ref name="globes">{{Cite web |last=פרוינד |first=אורן |date=2015-01-26 |title=גדעון ביקל במגעים לגיוס הון של 100 מיליון שקל לאגרקסקו |trans-title=Gideon Bickel is in talks to raise ILS 100 million for Agrexco |url=https://www.calcalist.co.il/markets/articles/0,7340,L-3650796,00.html |access-date=2022-06-12 |website=כלכליסט - www.calcalist.co.il |language=he}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.themarker.com/markets/1.1573994 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031062537/https://www.themarker.com/markets/1.1573994 |archive-date=2021-10-31 |title=הממונה על ההגבלים אישר מכירת אגרקסקו לגדעון ביקל |last=Cohen |first=Amiram |date=November 23, 2011 |work=TheMarker News |language=he |trans-title=The Antitrust Commissioner approved the sale of Agrexco to Gideon Bikel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2012-06-19/ty-article/.premium/no-gideon-bickel-didnt-buy-agrexco-to-get-revenge/0000017f-e2af-d7b2-a77f-e3afe5d10000|title = No, Gideon Bickel Didn't Buy Agrexco to Get Revenge|last = Cohen|first = Amiram|date = June 19, 2012|work = Haaretz }}</ref> Under his directorship, the company was renamed Carmel Agrexco.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Bickel is the owner of Hadarim, a shopping mall in Netanya.<ref name="globes" /><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000684914 |date=September 21, 2011 |title=Bickel Flowers likely to buy Agrexco for NIS 40m |last=Shauly |first=Avi |last2=Levy-Weinrib |first2=Ela |work=Globes}}</ref>
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