Sylvan Adams, Israel’s billionaire roving ‘ambassador’

He has ridden in a cycle rally in the Emirates, recruited star cyclist Chris Froome to Israel’s Tour de France team and was mentor to the first Israeli Formula One driver. Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams is playing the sports card to try to change the image of Israel as mired in conflict and to promote its normalisation with the Arab world. “The Israel that I know and love is not the Israel that is often shown in the media,” he said….