Alan D. Abbey
By Alan D. Abbey
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Food Daniel Rogov, Israel’s Leading Food and Wine Critic, Dies
This piece is cross-posted from JTA. Daniel Rogov, who helped develop Israeli wine and food culture and thrust Israeli wine into the international spotlight through decades of sharply written critiques, died Sept. 7 in Tel Aviv. He was in his 70s, by several accounts, but his exact age has not been made public. In addition,…
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News Vegas Casino King Makes Bid For Israeli Media Moguldom
Jerusalem – Sheldon Adelson has spent the past two decades collecting a string of casinos, but now the billionaire — considered by many to be the richest Jew in the world — is taking another kind of gamble. Two weeks ago, Adelson, CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., launched Yisrael Hayom, or Israel Today,…
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