Haim Saban
Self-described "cartoon schlepper" made first fortune with popular kids show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Scored again with Fox Family Network, joint venture with Rupert Murdoch's Fox television: netted $1.7 billion after sale to Disney in 2001. Latest coup: bought big stake in German broadcaster from bankrupt Kirch Media; will triple investment if $5.2 billion sale to German publisher Axel Springer is approved. Now making a run at Bezeq, Israeli telecom.

