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The Menorah Center: Largest Jewish complex in world

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki – Rashi – the greatest Jewish biblical commentator of all time, wrote a fascinating gloss to the word vayehen, which appears in Exodus 19:2: “vayehen-sham yisrael neged hahar,”...

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Lea Gottlieb, queen of Israeli fashion, dies at 94

took a turn for the worse, and eventually she had no choice but to sell the family’s shares which in 1997 were acquired by Lev Leviev, the chief shareholder in the Africa Israel Group. Later, her...

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BRIEF-AFI Development appoints Lev Leviev executive chairman

Nov 22 (Reuters) - AFI Development : * Lev leviev appointed executive chairman of AFI Development This discussion is now closed. We welcome comments on our articles for a limited period after their...

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FEATURE-Wanted: Diamond polishers in Israel. Piety not a problem

to foreign firms or Israeli-owned factories. "Once, everyone who sat in this room was a manufacturer," billionaire dealer Lev Leviev said at the opening of a Gemological Institute of America (GIA)...

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Wanted: Diamond polishers in Israel. Piety not a problem

centres the leverage was tremendous, as opposed to here where we were much more conservative,” he said, referring to the low level of debt among Israeli firms. “We entered the crisis more prepared, so...

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Grapevine: Giving life – a family affair

it to the Palestinians. Yet for all that, he never had a bar mitzva. This lacuna will be remedied on Saturday at the Yehuda HaLevi synagogue in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, where Sharansky is a...

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17 Israelis make 'Forbes' 2013 billionaires list

Teddy Sagi is in 831st place, with a fortune of $1.8 billion; Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. founder, chairman and CEO Gil Shwed is in 922nd place, with a fortune of $1.65 billion; diamond...

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Grapevine: Dressing down

THE INVITATIONS to last week’s official State Dinner hosted by President Shimon Peres for US President Barack Obama asked that guests come in formal attire. Among the few who complied with the request...

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Israel's richest man risks anger over UK move

By John Reed , FT.com updated 2:04 AM EDT, Tue April 9, 2013 Israel's richest man, Idan Ofer, is moving to London. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Israel's richest man is moving to London for "family reasons" Idan...

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Israel's richest man moves to UK

By John Reed , FT.com April 9, 2013 -- Updated 0604 GMT (1404 HKT) Israel's richest man, Idan Ofer, is moving to London. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Israel's richest man is moving to London for "family reasons"...

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UCP fund buys 48 pct of Russian social network VKontakte

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - Russia-focused investment fund United Capital Partners (UCP) has become the biggest shareholder in Russia's top social network VKontakte after buying 48 percent of its...

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UCP fund buys 48 pct of Russian social network VKontakte

the fund said on Wednesday. UCP has acquired the shares from VKontakte's co-founders Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev, a spokeswoman for the fund told Reuters. She declined immediate comment on...

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UPDATE 1-UCP fund buys 48 pct of Russian social network VKontakte

might have implied a higher valuation. UCP has acquired the shares from VKontakte's co-founders Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev, a spokeswoman for the fund told Reuters. She declined immediate...

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London: A better offer for Ofer?

Ofer is reported to be following in the footsteps of fellow Israeli billionaires Lev Leviev and Erwin Eisenberg and joining the swelling ranks of Israeli tycoons in exile in the heart of London’s...

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Fears of Russian internet crackdown as investigators search social network HQ

as a witness in the case. The decision one day later by two VKontakte co-founders, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev, to sell their shares in the site to Shcherbovich's fund, United Capital...

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Grapevine: Love at first sight

of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses; and many other leading lights of the diamond industry. These included Lev Leviev, who is probably best known to the public at large for his diverse business,...

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Perceived corruption

and their business partners. Often, reference is made to the “sextet:” Zadik Bino, Nochi Dankner, Idan Ofer, Lev Leviev, Yitzhak Tshuva and Dudi Weissman. Too often, high-ranking public officials –...

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A diamond heist in Cannes: Another French exception

THE armed man who fled the Carlton International hotel in Cannes at around noon on July 28th with jewellery worth €103m ($137m) pulled off the biggest heist in French history in a cool minute and a...

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Is Pavel Durov, Russia's Mark Zuckerberg, a Kremlin Target?

Since 2010, the fifth and sixth floors of the Singer House have been rented out by VKontakte.ru, the most popular social network in Russia. VKontakte, which is pronounced Vee-contact and translates as...

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Crime à la Croisette Cannes becomes the No 1 destination for world’s...

When asked why he robbed banks, the legendary American criminal Willie Sutton replied: “Because that’s where the money is?” Why are there so many jewel robberies in Cannes? Because that is where the...

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