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Rafiq Bahaa Edine Hariri (born 1944) is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, and currently the Prime Minister of Lebanon. He worked in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, making huge sums of money in a very short period of time, ending up a powerful construction tycoon. He later became a citizen of Saudi Arabia in 1978, and became Arabia's emissary to Lebanon. He was prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998, then again from 2000.

Hariri' s contribution are numerous. The most notable of which is the fact that he educated 30,000 lebanese students inside and outside of lebanon. He spent millions of dollars of his own personal money to redefine the face of social hierarchies oin lebanon. His education plan made possible for the creation of equal economic classes in lebanon. He donated lots of money to people, and investged almost half of his fortune in lebanon when no one was interrested in spending a dime doing that. He is a true believer in lebanon and its properity.

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