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Articles
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Mindsets to Markets
The Stef Wertheimer formulae for the Middle East regional stability where “the battlefield today should only be the market place”
By David E. Kaplan
With the latest Forbes magazine ranking Stef Wertheimer as Israel’s wealthiest citizen in its annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest billionaires, the writer revisits his earlier interview with the industrialist best known for his founding of Israel’s successful ‘Industrial Parks’, when he revealed his ‘Marshall Plan’ for regional peace and prosperity in the Middle East.
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J’ Accuse!
By Craig Snoyman
With an antisemitic murderer escaping justice, it is the French legal system that is now on trial. With good reason for Jews to distrust the French authorities, where once there was the sole voice of an influential writer proclaiming “J’Accuse!”, today that voice is the Jewish world bellowing – “We accuse!”
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Sarah Halimi Murdered but no Trial for the Murderer – Why?
A French Jew’s insights of the events surrounding her killer’s “escape from justice”
By Dr. Gad Amar, retired French surgeon and writer
On his Facebook account, the 2017 killer of a retired Jewish doctor and head of a Paris kindergarten Sarah Halimi, brazenly took the surname of his ‘role-model’ – an earlier 2006 Islamic torturer and murderer of a Jew – ‘proudly’ revealing to the world his antisemitism and his motive for killing. French justice turned a blind eye!
Sarah Halimi Murdered but no Trial for the Murderer – Why?
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A lire en français/To read in French:
Sarah Halimi : une déroute judiciaire programmée
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