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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

tycoons

Clockwise from left: Victor Sassoon at a horse race in 1953 (Sassoon Papers and Photographs, DeGolyer Library, SMU/ Random House); A hospital built by David Sassoon for the city of Pune, circa 1855-1862. (Public domain); David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Elias David Sassoon, Albert Abdallah David Sassoon, and Sassoon David Sassoon. (Public domain)
November 26, 2022, 11:05 am
The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
In ‘Sassoon,’ Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals
By Robert Philpot
Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israel Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow, Russia, on September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)
October 21, 2019, 5:43 pm
Russian Jewish tycoon grilled by Spain’s top court for alleged ‘corporate raid’
Mikhail Fridman, who holds Israeli citizenship, attends pre-trial hearing over accusations he used methods ‘typically used by the Russian mafia’ to devalue firm he sought to buy
By Laurence BOUTREUX
Ukrainian-Israeli-Swiss oligarch Igor Kolomoisky seen in a 2015 video. (screen capture: YouTube/Radio Svoboda)
April 18, 2019, 8:14 pm
Ukraine reverses nationalization of Israeli tycoon’s bank
Court rules 2016 move by President Petro Poroshenko was illegal and that Privatbank must be returned to Ihor Kolomoyskyi
By AP
Bank Hapoalim chief executive Ari Pinto speaks to Keren Marciano of Hadashot news, March 26, 2018. (Hadashot screenshot)
March 27, 2018, 6:28 pm
Bank Hapoalim boss complains of ‘incitement’ when queried over its steep fees
In TV interview, Arik Pinto denies that his bank’s $745 million profit for 2017 came from high fees paid by customers, dodges questions about bank’s massive unpaid loans to tycoons
By ToI Staff
Israeli businessman Eliezer Fishman, seen at court in Tel Aviv on January 1, 2017. (Flash90)
June 6, 2017, 2:26 am
Fallen tycoon to banks: There’s no money left for you to take
Eliezer Fishman is set to have 92% of $480m. debt to banks written off in a deal opposed by Leumi and Hapoalim
By ToI Staff
Israeli businessman Eliezer Fishman speaks at the Tel Aviv stock exchange (Photo by Moshe credit/Flash90)
June 5, 2017, 2:29 pm
Fallen Israeli tycoon set to have 92% of debt to banks written off
Creditors to vote Tuesday on deal agreed to by real estate and media magnate Eliezer Fishman and court-appointed administrator
By Sue Surkes
An elderly man searches among the garbage near the food market in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, June 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 28, 2015, 4:37 pm
Cronyism, not terrorism, is the biggest threat to Israel, hit TV series says
Airing this week, ‘Silver Platter’ seeks to fire up the public’s imagination with a systematic exposition on runaway inequality and greedy elites
By Simona Weinglass
Newspaper owner Alexander Lebedev punches Sergei Polonsky on Russian television in 2011. Polonsky, who fled Israel in 2013 when a warrant for his arrest was issued in Russia, was deported from Cambodia to face embezzlement charges in May 2015. (Screen capture: YouTube/ Sky News)
May 17, 2015, 11:04 am
Cambodia deports fugitive Russian tycoon who fled from Israel
Sergei Polonsky wanted on embezzlement charges in his home country over real estate scam
By AFP and ToI Staff
Former Chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner on June 10, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/FLASH90)
From the WebJuly 9, 2014, 6:01 pm
Unintended consequences risk $4.4 billion Israeli flight
Bloomberg: Unhappy with new rules that the government is trying to impose on them, some of Israel’s wealthiest families may move their money elsewhere
Former Chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner on June 10, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/FLASH90)
From the WebJuly 3, 2014, 7:06 pm
Israel’s conglomerates: Dankners in the dock
The Economist: The government’s promise to rid the country of ‘tycoons’ isn’t going as smoothly as many would like
Israeli ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk. (photo credit: courtesy MFA)
June 25, 2014, 3:03 pm
Envoy to South Africa suspected of taking illegal gifts
Arthur Lenk allegedly violated Foreign Ministry protocol by accepting Jewish tycoon’s complimentary weekend away
By Aron Dónzis
Former Chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner on June 10, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/FLASH90)
From the WebJanuary 8, 2014, 11:56 am
Overhaul of Israel’s economy offers lessons for United States
New York Times: With one legislative move, the Knesset has made a vast improvement to the Israeli economy, says an economist
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