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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

oligarchs

Hennady Korban attends a hearing in his corruption trial in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 25, 2016. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/ Pacific Press/ LightRocket via Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 16, 2022, 5:47 pm
Ukrainian oligarch says he placed Jewish death curse on Putin
Hennady Korban, who was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship last month, claims Russian president is aware of the kabbalistic hex and is making military decisions based on it
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Leonid Nevzlin (via Facebook)
July 30, 2022, 8:58 pm
Exiled oligarch in Israel: Putin doesn’t want to annex Ukraine, but to destroy it
His company dismantled and friends imprisoned, Leonid Nevzlin has lived in Israel for 20 years. He hasn’t ceased criticizing the Kremlin – and sees some parallels in his new home
By Ksenia Svetlova
Hennady Korban attends a hearing in his corruption trial in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2016. (Serhii Nuzhnenko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
July 28, 2022, 3:28 am
Zelensky said to strip 3 Jewish oligarchs of citizenship; all hold Israeli passports
Igor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Korban, Vadim Rabinovich — major backers of Jewish causes — also have strong patriotic credentials, so president’s reported move puzzles some observers
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.
July 12, 2022, 7:52 am
With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties
With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy
By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev
A dead body lies on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
April 5, 2022, 2:10 pm
Labor MKs urge option of joining Russia sanctions amid alleged massacres in Ukraine
Lawmakers cite Bucha killings, say there’s ‘no two sides,’ in apparent rebuke of Liberman’s equivocation; senior Kyiv officials reportedly in Israel to discuss refugees, sanctions
By ToI Staff
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
April 4, 2022, 11:04 am
Embassies warned not to accept Independence Day donations from oligarchs
While the West has imposed crushing sanctions against Moscow and Russian businessmen for its invasion of Ukraine, Israel has not
By ToI Staff
The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)
March 24, 2022, 8:02 pm
Jewish businessman paid for Nazi graffiti in Ukraine before Russia invaded – report
Ukrainian oligarch Pavel Fuks, accused of paying locals to daub swastikas in Kahriv and Kyiv, quoted saying ‘he had no choice’ after Russian agents approached him
By Tobias Siegal
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor sports stadium being used as a refugee center, in the village of Medyka, a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 16, 2022, 1:41 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 16: Special report from Lviv; ‘toxic’ oligarchs; polio in Israel
Carrie Keller-Lynn on the ground in Ukraine; Ricky Ben-David on what’s at stake with Israel’s oligarchs; Nathan Jeffay on a new coronavirus variant and cigarettes for kids on Purim
By ToI Staff
In this April 30, 2020, photo, Palestinian engineer Raed Nakhal from Palestine Children Relief Fund, right, and engineer Abdullah Dewik, check the Watergen machine that generates safe drinking water from air on the roof of al-Rantisi pediatric hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
May 6, 2020, 1:15 pm
Israeli billionaire hopes to bring water to parched Gaza
Michael Mirilashvili sends GEN-M machine, which exacts potable water from air, to Gaza hospital, says he hopes to deliver enough units to meet the Strip’s daily needs within a year
By AP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, left, leave after attending a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
February 1, 2020, 5:00 am
Book on Trump-Kushner dynasty plumbs heroic and sordid histories of US ‘royalty’
Andrea Bernstein’s ‘American Oligarchs’ is selling like hotcakes amid Senate impeachment trial, author reveals at Boston book launch
By Rich Tenorio
Ze'ev Elkin attends a debate between candidates for the Jerusalem municipal elections, Jerusalem, October 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 24, 2018, 8:36 pm
Oligarchs pumping money into Elkin Jerusalem mayoral campaign, filing shows
Likud minister has raised $1.68 million for campaign, according to State Comptroller, thanks largely to loan guarantees from wealthy individuals connected to former Soviet Union
By Sue Surkes
Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, on February 18, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
February 21, 2014, 3:58 am
Ukraine protest speaker urges Jewish oligarchs to use influence
Muslim opposition supporter calls on Muslim, Jewish business tycoons to intervene with President Yanukovych
By JTA
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)
April 1, 2013, 8:51 pm
Berezovsky’s girlfriend: He didn’t commit suicide
Katerina Sabirova says she and her sweetheart had ‘big plans’ to visit Israel mere days after the tycoon was found dead
By Yifa Yaakov and AP
Tourists on a camel ride through the desert (photo credit: Keren Freeman/Flash90)
April 9, 2012, 11:33 am
Russian oligarchs reenact Exodus
Group of wealthy businessmen replicate the journey of the Israelites
By Hillary Zaken
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