It Is Getting Close

It Is Getting Close

1 Iyar 5768, 5/6/2008

"Follow the paper trail" is a well-known investigative move.

I am following the newspaper trail on Olmert, here:

A Long Island mogul is at the center of a sensational bribery scandal that could bring down embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, The Post has learned.

Millionaire financier Morris T - who runs an investment firm out of his tony home in Woodmere - allegedly passed money to Olmert while the politician was mayor of Jerusalem in the '90s, sources said.

In a highly unusual move, Israeli authorities have barred the country's media from publishing T's name - revealed now in The Post - saying it could hamper their investigation. Israeli media has referred only to the involvement of an "American businessman."

T is apparently set to sing to Israeli authorities about his alleged role in the scheme, sources said.

Anybody out there on Long Island willing to comment? Anybody?

From the Hills of Efraim

by Yisrael Medad

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Yisrael Medad is a revenant resident of Shiloh, in the Hills of Efrayim north of Jerusalem. He arrived in Israel with his wife, Batya, in 1970 and lived in the renewing Jewish Quarter, eventually moving to Shiloh in 1981.

Currently the Menachem Begin Center's Information Resource Director, he has previously been director of Israel's Media Watch, a Knesset aide to three Members of Knesset and a lecturer in Zionist History. He serves as the Yesha Council's Foreign Media spokesman in a volunteer capacity, is active on behalf of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount and is involved in various Jewish and Zionist activist causes. He contributes a Hebrew-language media column to Besheva and publishes op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and other periodicals.

He also blogs at MyRightWord in English and, in Hebrew, at The Right Word.

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