{"id":107180,"date":"2025-07-31T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107180\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:21:10","slug":"luxury-hotel-co-financed-by-leonardo-dicaprio-set-to-be-built-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107180\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Hotel Co-Financed by Leonardo DiCaprio Set to Be Built in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investment group involving <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/leonardo-dicaprio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> has reportedly received final approval to build a luxury hotel near Tel Aviv, Israel. The actor holds a 10% stake in the sprawling beachfront project, with the rest split between The Harag Group and brothers Ahikam and Lior Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/real-estate\/article-862585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a>, the eco-certified resort at Herzliya Marina will consist of 14 floors with 365 rooms, following a request that dramatically expanded the project from its originally proposed 10,000 square meters in 2018 to its current 51,000 square meters.<\/p>\n<p>DiCaprio, a longtime environmental activist, has apparently spearheaded the hotel\u2019s sustainability effort and its goal of compliance with the US Green Building Council and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen environmental development is a significant part of building communities that work in partnership with nature and not against it,\u201d he said when the project was announced. \u201cAs we seek to create a future that heads off the most severe effects of climate change, we need projects that push for new developments in environmental design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond environmental concerns, however, a greater controversy has emerged, with critics questioning how DiCaprio\u2019s investment aligns with his role as a United Nations Messenger for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/approval-granted-luxury-hotel-israel-co-owned-leonardo-dicaprio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Far Out Magazine<\/a> points out, he has been silent on the conflict in Gaza, which UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres <a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2024\/sgsm22310.doc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">described<\/a> in July 2024 as a \u201chumanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions\u201d and \u201ca moral stain on us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of now, DiCaprio has yet to respond to the criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investment group involving Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly received final approval to build a luxury hotel near Tel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-107180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114947115373633904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}