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Africa Israel Can’t Pay its Debts

31-Aug-09

A second Israeli giant is on his way down. After Arkadi Gaydamak, the Russian billionaire, unceremoniously fled the country with his tail between his legs and renounced his Israel citizenship after a miserable failure of an attempt to run for mayor of Jerusalem by courting the Arab vote, Lev Leviev, another Russian billionaire and owner [...]

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Back to Kassam School in Sderot

06-Sep-07

The beleaguered Israeli town Sderot, only a ’stones throw’ or in this case, a Qassam rocket launch away from Gaza, “celebrated” the new school year today, September 3, being once again under a barrage of Palestinian launched Qassam rockets. When it had been announced earlier by local municipal authorities that the town of 15,000 [...]

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Did Gaydamak save the “Chazer Store”?

18-Jun-07

Strange things definitely happen in this world. And one of the strangest things is the sudden decision by Russian billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak to cancel his purchase of 51% of the shares of the non-kosher food chain Tiv Taam. Gaydamak’s previous announced buy-out of Israel’s third largest supermarket chain, albeit non-kosher, and known affectionately by many [...]

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Labor Party Primaries Hardly Noticed In Israel

28-May-07

With Israel Labor Party primaries only hours away, and on top of current security issues such as the beleaguered town of Sderot and military actions into Gaza, tomorrow’s inter-party primary elections for a new Labor Party leader seem to be so boring that even the most mediocre TV program will probably receive better ratings.
The three [...]

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Arkadi Gaydamak is THE MAN

24-May-07

I am telling you, this Arkady Gaydamak can take care of everything. He is just everywhere…
Moshik! thinks so as well. For the Hebrew challanged, the wife says to the husband: “But you said it wasn’t happening for you..”

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Arkadi Gaydamak – Billionaire, Sports Fan, Newspaper Owner, Arms Dealer, did I miss anything..

03-Jan-06

I can’t keep up. Too much happening too fast. Arkady Gaydamak (53) is all over the place. I planned to write this piece on this phenomena called Arkady (Arcadi or Arkadi) Gaydamak (an Oligarch) and as I am writing these words there are 2 new news bits that involve the Gaydamak family. This is like [...]

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