Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Jerusalem - At Putin's Side, An Army Of Jewish Billionaires

Il Cirque e' ammutolito.
 
Jerusalem - When the air-conditioning broke down at the reception for
the unveiling ceremony of the Red Army monument in Netanya on Monday,
it didn’t matter if you were a billionaire, multimillionaire or broke.
 
Everyone suffered the same.
 
In one corner sat Mikhail Fridman, the seventh-richest man in Russia,
whose fortune is estimated at $15 billion by Forbes. He stayed
hydrated in the sweltering heat by sipping a glass of water.
 
In another stood Moshe Kantor, the chemicals tycoon who Forbes said
was worth $2.3b. He repeatedly removed the beads of sweat from his
head with a napkin.
 
The two men were part of a group of two dozen or so affluent Russian-
speaking businessmen who came to the ceremony where President Vladimir
Putin was the guest of honor. Some, like Fridman, flew in especially
from Russia. Others, like Kantor, drove from nearby Herzliya, where
many businessman from the former Soviet Union including Leonid Nevzlin
and Gabriel Mirilashvili, to name a few, have made their homes.
 
For many members of this class of ultra rich Putin’s arrival in the
country was an opportunity for them to brush shoulders with one
another and to mingle with friends and officials from the motherland.
The richest man in the room filled with rich men was probably the
media-shy Fridman, who declined to speak to The Jerusalem Post.
 
“I am a private person,” he said, displaying seemingly good English.
 
Other faces were more familiar to locals. Lev Leviev, the diamonds and
real estate mogul who is a bit of anomaly in this world, was on hand.
Although born in Uzbekistan, then part of the Soviet Union, he
immigrated to Israel as a teenager in the 1970s and made his money in
the Jewish state. Only after the markets in the former Soviet Union
opened did the Israeli, whose worth was estimated at about $1.7b.
earlier this year, invest extensively in natural resources and
property in that part of the world.
 
Not everybody in the room was a billionaire. Some were worth a mere
couple of hundred of million dollars.
 
Alexander Levin, a Ukrainian businessman who was among those who
donated to build the monument, is one of latter.
 
The real estate developer, who last year set up the World Forum for
Russian Jewry, an advocacy group based in New York, explained why he
it was an important cause.
 
“My two grandparents were killed during World War II so it’s very
important to us,” he said. “We are paying just a little [in comparison
to what they paid].”
 
How much is a little? Levin said the exact sum “was not important” but
that it was “a lot of money.”
 
Members of United Israel Appeal-Keren Hayesod, which raised the money
to build the marble and concrete monument overlooking the azure
Mediterranean Sea, were also tight-lipped.
 
“We organized a group of 10 to 15 top businessmen who raised the money
that helped transform this dream to reality,” said Gadi Dror, the
UIA’s director of the eastern region. “We do not go [into the] figures
because they [the donors] prefer not to but it is meaningful amount.”
 
A source later said each businessman had donated at least $100,000.
 
Watching the group of mega-wealthy interact, one cannot help but
wonder how so many affluent businessmen in the former Soviet Union are
Jewish.
 
German Zakharyaev, vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress,
cited two main reasons for that. First, Jews are few among many.
 
“We are a minority and as such we have to be strong [if we are] to
preserve our customs,” said the businessman who, as a member of the
Mountain Jewish community of the eastern Caucuses, is a minority
within a minority.
 
“This is something in our commandments that we have to keep our
Jewishness and be united in the Diaspora.”
 
Second, he said, Jewish businessmen are hard workers.
 
“We think a lot and we sleep a little,” he said.
 
http://www.vosizneias.com/108749/2012/06/26/jerusalem-at-putins-side-an-army-of-jewish-billionaires/print/
 

 the unveiling ceremony of the Red Army monument in Netanya
 
vedo che in Israele non diffamano tutti la memoria di chi liberò
Auschwitz come certi pirla, incidentalmente israeliani

 Auschwitz 
 
parli di quelli che consegnarono gli ebrei polacchi ai tedeschi?
 
 

 parli di quelli che
 
hanno liberato Auschwitz. Stacci, dhimmi.