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Jun 27, 2015, 6:14:02 PM6/27/15
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Make My Wish Come True. All I want For Christmas Is Jew - Mariah Carey
Singer Mariah Carey and billionaire boyfriend in Israel for 'spiritual meeting'
By Haaretz Jun. 27, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.663296
"business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen."
American diva Mariah Carey and her new boyfriend, Australian billionaire James Carey, are in Israel for a "pre-engagement spiritual meeting," the TMZ website reported.
TMZ said that the couple will meet with an Israeli "spiritual leader" who Packer knows well. The name of the spiritual leader was not revealed.
Packer reportedly insisted on holding the meeting before asking Carey to marry him. The couple will also be visiting Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Dead Sea.
Carey and Packer, who have known each other for several months, have been on a Mediterranean cruise recently on Packer's 88-meter yacht. They were photographed walking hand-in-hand in Capri, Italy, and also visited Cannes and Antibes in France.
Packer is the fourth richest person in Australia, with an estimated fortune of over $35 billion.
His business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen.
Packer's office denied the claim. There is no doubt, however, that Packer is expanding his business interests in Israel.
"The trip has strongly reinforced my view of the investment opportunities and incredible tech ecosystem in Israel," he told The Australian newspaper from Tel Aviv earlier this month, while visiting the country with a delegation of Australian businesspeople.
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Singer Mariah Carey and billionaire boyfriend in Israel for 'spiritual meeting'
By Haaretz Jun. 27, 2015
http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.663296
"business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen."
American diva Mariah Carey and her new boyfriend, Australian billionaire James Carey, are in Israel for a "pre-engagement spiritual meeting," the TMZ website reported.
TMZ said that the couple will meet with an Israeli "spiritual leader" who Packer knows well. The name of the spiritual leader was not revealed.
Packer reportedly insisted on holding the meeting before asking Carey to marry him. The couple will also be visiting Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Dead Sea.
Carey and Packer, who have known each other for several months, have been on a Mediterranean cruise recently on Packer's 88-meter yacht. They were photographed walking hand-in-hand in Capri, Italy, and also visited Cannes and Antibes in France.
Packer is the fourth richest person in Australia, with an estimated fortune of over $35 billion.
His business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen.
Packer's office denied the claim. There is no doubt, however, that Packer is expanding his business interests in Israel.
"The trip has strongly reinforced my view of the investment opportunities and incredible tech ecosystem in Israel," he told The Australian newspaper from Tel Aviv earlier this month, while visiting the country with a delegation of Australian businesspeople.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
http://mp3light.net/assets/songs/393000-393999/393233-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-mariah-carey.mp3
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August 22, 2015 Charles Miranda News Corp Australia Network
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/james-packer-opens-up-about-his-secret-new-life-in-israel/story-fntzoymg-1227494647608
SITTING in his apartment in Jaffa in the ancient quarter of Tel Aviv in Israel, James Packer marvels at his surrounds.
He talks enthusiastically about his new-found beachside suburb home, that he rightly declares has been civilised for thousands of years, in contrast to his other beach pad on the opposite side of the world in Sydney's Bondi Beach.
The Australian businessman then stops.
"Everyone knows what I think about Israel and I think I have said enough about it, I don't want to sound like a preacher and I don't want to go on about it," Packer says.
But he can't resist, going on to share his views on contemporary regional issues related to Iran, Gaza, China and US's apparent shift in Middle East foreign policy.
"I love Israel, it is an amazing place and I'm incredibly lucky, it is one of the most interesting places in the world and I've been lucky to find it," he says.
Indeed his enthusiasm for this new-found love is matched only by another new fondness -- Mariah Carey.
Packer is seeking to strengthen his closeness to both as he looks to the future, personally and professionally.
The 47-year-old first turned an eye to Israel several years ago attracted by its strength in start-ups and emerging eco-tech innovation companies.
His Australian-headquartered venture capital fund Square Peg Capital has already made four Israel-based investments including Glide, a live video-based chat service founded in Jerusalem by two Americans and Australian Adam Korbl. In two years Glide has attracted 10 million users.
Packer has already employed an Israeli-based PA to handle his affairs and appointments as he looks to make further business and personal inroads into the country specifically in the technology, data storage and security, and social gaming.
MORE: James Packer's mansion sells for a fortune
His shift toward Israel was no doubt in part at the encouragement of 82-year-old Jewish American gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson who like Packer has considerable interest in the Macau casino gambling scene.
In Israel, Adelson bankrolls the Israel Hayom newspaper, a free widely circulated newspaper known for its unflinching support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Packer and Adelson were invited by Netanyahu to hear his address to the US Congress regarding the perceived threat to Israel posed by a nuclear-powered Iran.
The three men sharing a strong bond personal bond.
About a year ago, Packer bought a 30-year-old mansion -- small, relative to new developments going on about him -- in the ancient township of Caesarea about 45 minutes north of Tel Aviv.
The town dates back to the 25-13BC and Herod the Great's establishment of a major deep harbour maritime and trade port city named in honour of Julius Cesear. It would go on to be sacked, destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries by various including the Arabs, Egyptians, Greeks and Crusaders and later abandoned to become a tiny fishing village, albeit with spectacular ruins.
By the 1950s the French side of the banking Rothschild dynasty owned the area and began to establish a unique private township developed into gated "clusters" of homes for the rich, mostly Jewish and those seeking privacy.
Packer's home, bought for under $2 million, is in leafy Cluster 6, also known as Hayam (sea) Cluster, and sits right next door to the private home, as opposed to official residence, of Netanyahu who he considers a good friend and whom he comfortably calls Bibi.
The pair, with their partners, Sara Netanyahu and Packer's girlfriend Carey, dined recently at the Netanyahu home and Sara caught up with the pair again this week backstage after Carey's first ever gig in Israel.
The new Packer home is about a 1000sqm block with a sea-fronting 300sqm home originally built by an elderly Italian Jewish lady. For the past six months it has been undergoing a total revamp at Packer's instructions with the property to go up a storey or two and include a new 16m by 7m swimming pool and large entertainment area.
It is arguably one of the safest houses in Israel sitting next door to Netanyahu and benefiting not just from the Cluster 6's boom-gate, closed each night from 9pm with numberplate recognition cameras allowing in locals with visitors to report to a guard's box, but also several heavily armed guards, security cameras and a second boom gate on a section of his Hadar Street road monitored 24/7.
No-one enters that section of road without being questioned as to their business by a man with a machine gun, of course tasked with protecting the Netanyahu home whether the PM is in residence or not.
"It will be finished when it's finished," is all Packer will say of his new home which could be a while hence the need now for his modest Jaffa apartment.
His neighbours on Hadar Street are mostly rich Jewish families, many from the United States, France and Britain but proudly displaying in the front of their homes.
There is an Australian-Russian Orthodox millionaire on his street, a well-known doctor as well Russian oligarch Valery Kogan who is building a home to the plans of the Palace of Versailles in France, complete with gold leaf adornments on gates and pillars and an army of painters including a team of Italians who normally work exclusively on the upkeep of the Vatican. Such is the opulence and wealth, the oligarch, who among other things owns Moscow Airport, bought two adjoining properties, demolished both homes with one now used just to store sea containers laden with imported marble for the expansion of his palace. Nearby lives fellow Russian-born Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, a controversial figure accused of money laundering fraud and arms dealing in Angola but acquitted for all.
Local estate agents say there can be no value placed on the property since there is no market for it but say it is in the hundreds of millions.
"This place is a cocoon and when you drive through the gates of Caesarea, it's different, it is no longer Israel," said one agent.
"And with the security, well let's just say everyone sleeps well here at night."
Under the management of a corporation, all roads and flower-laden nature strips are kept in immaculate condition to the point of seeming almost unreal.
If Packer ever gets bored there is Israel's only full-length golf course and country club, a sailing club, the world-class Ralli Museum boasting a fine collection of Dali and Rodin, and seafront restaurants among the Old Harbour's ancient ruins including a Roman Circus and Amphitheatre which today is used as a performance venue to attract headline acts.
Packer has already visited the spectacular Old Harbor site, where almost everyday Israeli couples come to have their wedding photos taken, and the beach close to his home which has the ruin of a Roman aqueduct running along its length.
It's a new colourful start on all fronts for Packer who has never looked happier and pleased with the new direction he is taking.
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Oct 26, 2015, 8:25:11 AM10/26/15
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Make A Wish Come True For Real
The Law of Attraction primarily says that you simply attract into your life no matter you imagine about. Law of attraction is such a natural approach that it can be functional for no matter which, any moment, in any position, to obvious anything that you want, in any part of the cosmos, by any person. The thing we do is, increase the probability of your needs to come back true by reading your wishes and hopefully making them get more closer for you to accomplish.
http://www.getexlover.com/make-a-wish-come-true-for-real/
The Law of Attraction primarily says that you simply attract into your life no matter you imagine about. Law of attraction is such a natural approach that it can be functional for no matter which, any moment, in any position, to obvious anything that you want, in any part of the cosmos, by any person. The thing we do is, increase the probability of your needs to come back true by reading your wishes and hopefully making them get more closer for you to accomplish.
http://www.getexlover.com/make-a-wish-come-true-for-real/
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Dec 18, 2015, 10:31:53 PM12/18/15
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WHY TEL AVIV IS HOLLYWOOD'S NEW BILLION-DOLLAR SIN CITY
DECEMBER 18, 2015 MERLE GINSBERG
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tel-aviv-is-hollywoods-new-848528
It may be smack-dab in the middle of the Holy Land, but over the last decade Tel Aviv has unveiled itself as a kind of glamorous new Sin City. The tantalizing beaches, cafes and nightlife, along with its unique mix of the Middle East with a Mediterranean party atmosphere, ensure the lifestyle-loving capital continues to buzz with energy. It couldn't be more contrary with the image of many of the uninitiated: "People think we're still riding on camels!" one local told THR. "They also think we're always at war -- and it's not safe here." Yet upon arrival, one finds a bustling urban respite with all the things sophisticated seekers are hoping to find, and more.
Why the exodus to the Israeli coastal city? "Tel Aviv is the sexiest city in the world!" declares native Motty Reif, a producer and founder of Tel Aviv Fashion Week (its fourth was held in October) who's also resided in Los Angeles. But it's not just the sultry heat that Hollywood embraces. Tel Aviv's thriving TV and film business compels the entertainment industry to visit frequently -- to schmooze and to buy. "Tel Aviv's now a world capital," says producer Howard Rosenman, who's been spending winter holidays there (it's a 15-hour direct flight from L.A.) for more than a decade, as well as developing a number of homegrown projects. World-traveling director Brett Ratner calls it "the most cosmopolitan place I've ever been. A scene of cosmic proportions." Producer Ben Silverman loved it so much he got married there five years ago. "It's the utmost free open society - Christians, Muslims, Arabs, Jews... Even the Jews are from all different countries," he says. Showtime CEO David Nevins went for the network's Homeland shoot but returns because he is in awe of it: "The place is a real 20th century city -- ancient and modern."
Read more Hollywood's 11 Last Survivors of the Holocaust
New world, indeed. Real estate prices have skyrocketed -- Madonna reportedly paid $20 million dollars for a pad in a new Richard Meier-designed, all-white luxury tower. "Tel Aviv is a very good investment: the economy's stable, and real estate prices have literally doubled in five years," says Israeli-born producer Avi Lerner. And the area dubbed "Silicon Wadi" (the Arabic word for "valley") has emerged as a digital mecca: $1.7 billion of funding was tracked in 2014 alone.
So how did this long-distance love affair between industry honchos and Tel Aviv -- a connection that's spawned such shows as In Treatment, Homeland, Dig and Tyrant -- begin? CAA television co-head Adam Berkowitz, current chairman of the entertainment division of L.A.'s Jewish Federation, attributes a lot of it to 14 years of Federation trips for entertainment execs (including Discovery's Marc Graboff, CBS' Nina Tassler and WME's Nancy Josephson, who led one in 2011) to meet local writers and directors -- and have meetings with the likes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres.
And it's not just the town's execs who have embraced Tel Aviv -- stars often go for work, then return for pleasure: Gerard Butler stays with friends there, as does Ryan Gosling (pals had to bail him out when his car stalled on the road to Jerusalem). Hometown girl Natalie Portman gets her facials at Yullia salon, while Rihanna has enjoyed a green mud bath at the Dead Sea. Barbra Streisand takes 100 rooms at The Dan, and Jerry Seinfeld's set to perform two Christmas week shows there.
"Tel Aviv is a special place," declares Israeli actress-producer Noa Tishby, who has been credited with starting the feeding frenzy for Israeli formats when she brought BeTipul to HBO, and In Treatment was spawned. "So much joie de vivre, so much emotion -- and Hollywood's really tapped into that."
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Jan 22, 2016, 2:03:55 PM1/22/16
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Wedding bells will soon be ringing for Mariah Carey and James Packer
by MELANIE BROMLEY Thu, Jan 21, 2016
http://imgbox.com/RsSWCBch
Over the past ten months, the jet-setting pair has been on a whirlwind schedule of romantic dates spanning all over the world, from Ibiza to St Bart's to Italy and even to Packer's homeland of Australia... The most meaningful of their trips came at the end of June 2015, when James took Mariah to the Western Wall in Israel. An insider told E! at the time, "There is only one place at the Western Wall where men and woman can stand together and it was meaningful for him to take her there so that they could share this very intimate moment as a couple."
http://www.eonline.com/news/731548/mariah-carey-and-james-packer-are-engaged
by MELANIE BROMLEY Thu, Jan 21, 2016
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Over the past ten months, the jet-setting pair has been on a whirlwind schedule of romantic dates spanning all over the world, from Ibiza to St Bart's to Italy and even to Packer's homeland of Australia... The most meaningful of their trips came at the end of June 2015, when James took Mariah to the Western Wall in Israel. An insider told E! at the time, "There is only one place at the Western Wall where men and woman can stand together and it was meaningful for him to take her there so that they could share this very intimate moment as a couple."
http://www.eonline.com/news/731548/mariah-carey-and-james-packer-are-engaged
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Feb 4, 2017, 11:04:38 AM2/4/17
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NICOLE BITETTE February 4, 2017
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/mariah-carey-allegedly-sets-fire-250g-wedding-dress-video-article-1.2964158
What’s a wedding dress without a wedding?
Mariah Carey reportedly set fire to her $250,000 custom Valentino wedding gown, which she was set to wear to wed James Packer before the split, TMZ reports.
In her new music video for the song “I Don’t,” the “Heartbreaker’ singer stands before a fire pit and throws a plush gown into the flames — and TMZ reports it’s the same one she tried on during her E! reality series ahead of her wedding.
The video was also reported to be filmed at the Calabasas mansion Carey and Packer once shared together, according to the gossip site.
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2964156.1486221676!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/mariah5f-2-web.jpg
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Mar 13, 2017, 10:35:11 AM3/13/17
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James Packer wanted for questioning by Israeli police in Netanyahu corruption probe
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2017-03-11/james-packer-wanted-for-questioning-by-israeli-police-in-netanyahu-corruption-probe-media-reports/1657110
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/34622742/australian-billionaire-james-packer-reportedly-wanted-for-questioning-by-israeli-police-as-part-of-invesigation-into-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu/#page1
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4523578/israeli-police-seek-to-question-packer-in-netanyahu-probe-reports/?cs=12
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/james-packer-recruited-to-fund-benjamin-netanyahus-lifestyle-by-hollywood-mogul-arnon-milchan-haaretz-20170308-guu2nb.html
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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2017-03-11/james-packer-wanted-for-questioning-by-israeli-police-in-netanyahu-corruption-probe-media-reports/1657110
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/34622742/australian-billionaire-james-packer-reportedly-wanted-for-questioning-by-israeli-police-as-part-of-invesigation-into-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu/#page1
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4523578/israeli-police-seek-to-question-packer-in-netanyahu-probe-reports/?cs=12
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/james-packer-recruited-to-fund-benjamin-netanyahus-lifestyle-by-hollywood-mogul-arnon-milchan-haaretz-20170308-guu2nb.html
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
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Mar 13, 2017, 10:53:33 AM3/13/17
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Gidi Weitz Mar 08, 2017
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.775697
https://www.docdroid.net/aiCDdJY/arnon-milchan-recruited-james-packer-to-share-burden-of-funding-netanyahus-lifestyle-haaretz.pdf.html
Arnon Milchan tried to soften his testimony about Netanyahu in a second round of questioning last week; Haaretz learns that Australian businessman James Packer was not questioned when he was in Israel several months ago.
Hollywood tycoon Arnon Milchan recruited Australian businessman James Packer to help share in financing the lifestyle of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's family, suggests evidence gathered by police during an investigation of graft allegations against him.
The probe, which police have dubbed "Case 1000," looks into suspicions that the prime minister received hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of gifts.
Netanyahu and his wife are suspected of systematically demanding cigars and bottles of champagne from Milchan, and in one instance, asking him for jewelry worth 10,000 shekels. Netanyahu said these were gifts between friends, and that he himself had bought some of the cigars with cash he received from a wealthy relative.
But testimony and other indications have raised suspicions that these were not gifts among friends but perks given by Milchan not of his own good will. One of the indications, Haaretz is reporting for the first time, is that Milchan had turned to his partner, Packer, to help cover some of the costs.
One person who knows Milchan estimated recently that Packer paid for about 25 percent of supplies for the Netanyahu family.
Another person with knowledge of the details said the fact that Milchan asked Packer to help out with the expenses shows he wasn't happy about financing the family's lifestyle. In effect, Milchan was responsible for the friendship forged between Packer and the prime minister.
Last week Milchan testified for the second time about the case. He softened some elements of what he said compared to the testimony he gave in November about the Netanyahu couple, according to sources who spoke to him after he was questioned. Milchan said he did nothing wrong, and that he didn’t give gifts to the Netanyahus with the aim of being compensated.
But it is worth nothing that Netanyahu did intervene on his behalf, and appealed to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, to arrange Milchan's visa.
When he was questioned the first time, Milchan said the Netanyahus have been receiving expensive gifts from him for years, on demand. Milchan said that some of the demands sickened him.
A source familiar with the details told Haaretz that even the evidence in the file, which included text messages and testimony from Milchan's employees in Israel, raised suspicions that the Netanyahus had systematically demanded the luxurious items.
Police have had trouble taking testimony from Packer in recent weeks, as he is abroad. But information received by Haaretz shows that Packer was in Israel a few months ago at a time when police already had information connecting him to the apparent perks received by Netanyahu.
Despite this, police did not question him. The opportunity "slipped away," a senior law enforcement source acknowledged.
Packer, 48, is the son of media mogul Kerry Packer, who, until his death in 2005 was the wealthiest and most influential businessman in Australia. The son inherited a media empire, which includes the NINE television network and the CMH media and publishing company.
In early 2015, Forbes Asia estimated that James Packer's holdings made him the fourth-wealthiest person in Australia, with an estimated net worth of $4.7 billion. The sum has decreased to $2.2 billion in recent years as a result of losses in U.S. investments during the financial crisis.
Since his father's death, Packer has avoided the family's media business and decided to develop a global gambling empire.
Haaretz has reported in the past that the company Milchan and Packer were involved in employed senior experts from Israeli intelligence and security services.
The company, Blue Sky International, was set up by Milchan at the end of 2008 and Australian media said that a few years later Packer invested $15 million in it.
According to information learned by Haaretz, the Milchan and Packer initiated the establishment of a new cyber firm and aspired to recruit Mossad chief Yossi Cohen as a partner.
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Haaretz Nov 12, 2017
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.822220
Sources in the Israel Police believe there is sufficient evidence to charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery for accepting hundreds of thousands of shekels’ worth of gifts from wealthy businessmen, Israel Channel 10 News reported on Friday.
The prime minister and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, are suspected of demanding, and receiving, large amounts of cigars, jewelry and alcoholic beverages over an extended period of time from individuals including the Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, in what has been dubbed Case 1000.
According to Channel 10, prosecutors have not yet decided on an indictment in the case. The Israel TV News Company — the shared news division of Keshet 12 and Reshet 13, the former Channel 2 — reported on Friday that the police and the State Prosecutor’s Office disagree over charges in the case.
On Thursday, Netanyahu was questioned for the fifth time in this case, as well as in Case 2000, which involves recordings of talks between Netanyahu and Arnon Mozes, the publisher of the Yedioth Ahronoth daily tabloid. The prime minister was questioned for four hours, and according to TV news reports detectives plan to question him at least twice more in connection to this affair.
Last week it was reported that Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer was questioned by police on allegations that he asked then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to expedite a U.S. visa for Milchan, on Netanyahu’s request.
The police are also examining whether Netanyahu tried to advance Milchan’s interests in Israel’s media industry. Haaretz has reported that Netanyahu may have facilitated the sale of Channel 10, in which Milchan owned shares, to businessman Len Blavatnik.
Australian billionaire James Packer is also believed to have given lavish gifts to the Netanyahus. Channel 10 reported that Packer paid the New York hotel bill of their son Yair during a United Nations General Assembly meeting and gave Sara Netanyahu 10 tickets to a concert by singer Mariah Carey, Packer’s partner at the time. The police have not yet questioned Packer on this matter.
Last week two of the prime minister’s closest confidants, lawyers David Shimron and Isaac Molho, were questioned by the police four times over allegations of financial misconduct in Israel’s purchase of submarines from Germany. It’s not yet known whether the police intend to question Netanyahu in this affair, dubbed Case 3000.
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Mariah Carey and Benjamin Netanyahu star in eventful 24 hours for James Packer
Colin Kruger DECEMBER 1 2017
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/mariah-carey-and-benjamin-netanyahu-star-in-eventful-24-hours-for-james-packer-20171130-gzvvyc.html
It was a busy 24 hours for James Packer.
On Wednesday he was voluntarily chatting with the Australian Federal Police, which was acting on behalf of Israeli investigators trying to get to the bottom of allegedly lavish gift giving to his mate – the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Mr Packer is not suspected of criminal conduct in either Israel or Australia with respect to this investigation," was the crucial statement from the AFP, which emphasised it was interviewing Packer as a witness.
Do not underestimate just how good that news is for Packer, given Crown Melbourne is undergoing a review by the state regulator to see whether Crown is suitable to continue to hold its casino licence.
Later that night, news broke that he has settled with former fiancee, Mariah Carey, for as little as $US13 million.
And on Thursday morning, one of the side bets at his gambling empire, CrownBet, announced that it had settled its differences with Tabcorp over its multibillion-dollar merger with Tatts.
The end of Packer's career as a pop groupie may not look cheap. But Carey proved to be a lot cheaper than Packer's dalliance with Hollywood frat buddy, Brett Ratner, who is getting all sorts of unwelcome publicity at the moment.
In his latest tell-all in October, Packer revealed he lost $100 million on his Hollywood film production venture with Ratner, RatPac.
"Let's just say I did more for Brett than he did for me," said Packer.
The good news is that Packer's decision to ditch Hollywood means he escaped the fallout from the sex scandal engulfing his former buddy.
The Warner Bros financing deal, which is the cornerstone of RatPac's business, is now over thanks to the Hollywood studio ditching the tainted Ratner and RatPac.
That is not something Packer would have needed on his rap sheet – which would have come on top of the significant losses from backing celluloid turkeys.
Ratner has also lost the office he shared with Packer on the Warner Bros' Burbank lot – a bungalow once occupied by Frank Sinatra.
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Australian Billionaire James Packer Talks to Police in Criminal Probe of Gifts to Netanyahu
Josh Breiner Nov 29, 2017
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.825818
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/middle-east/james-packer-interviewed-by-afp-over-israeli-investigation-into-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-20171130-gzvpai.html
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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu, corruption
Reuters Staff DECEMBER 2, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-protests/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-corruption-idUSKBN1DW0Q8
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - About 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is under criminal investigation over allegations of abuse of office.
The demonstration was by far the largest of weekly anti-corruption protests sparked by corruption allegations against Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing.
The four-term leader is suspected of involvement in two cases. The first involves receiving gifts from wealthy businessmen and the second involves negotiating a deal with a newspaper owner for better coverage in return for curbs on a rival daily.
Saturday’s protest was prompted by a draft law expected to be ratified by parliament next week, which would bar police from publishing its findings in two investigations of Netanyahu.
Critics say the draft law is a blatant attempt to protect Netanyahu and keep the public in the dark about his investigation. Supporters of the legislation say it is meant to protect suspects’ rights.
Netanyahu has said he has no interest in promoting personal legislation but he has not ordered its two sponsors, close confidants in his Likud party, to withdraw the bill.
Netanyahu has described himself as a victim of a political witch hunt and said of the cases against him: “There will be nothing because there is nothing.”
If charged, he would come under heavy pressure to resign or could call an election to test whether he still had a mandate.
Colin Kruger DECEMBER 1 2017
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/mariah-carey-and-benjamin-netanyahu-star-in-eventful-24-hours-for-james-packer-20171130-gzvvyc.html
It was a busy 24 hours for James Packer.
On Wednesday he was voluntarily chatting with the Australian Federal Police, which was acting on behalf of Israeli investigators trying to get to the bottom of allegedly lavish gift giving to his mate – the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Mr Packer is not suspected of criminal conduct in either Israel or Australia with respect to this investigation," was the crucial statement from the AFP, which emphasised it was interviewing Packer as a witness.
Do not underestimate just how good that news is for Packer, given Crown Melbourne is undergoing a review by the state regulator to see whether Crown is suitable to continue to hold its casino licence.
Later that night, news broke that he has settled with former fiancee, Mariah Carey, for as little as $US13 million.
And on Thursday morning, one of the side bets at his gambling empire, CrownBet, announced that it had settled its differences with Tabcorp over its multibillion-dollar merger with Tatts.
The end of Packer's career as a pop groupie may not look cheap. But Carey proved to be a lot cheaper than Packer's dalliance with Hollywood frat buddy, Brett Ratner, who is getting all sorts of unwelcome publicity at the moment.
In his latest tell-all in October, Packer revealed he lost $100 million on his Hollywood film production venture with Ratner, RatPac.
"Let's just say I did more for Brett than he did for me," said Packer.
The good news is that Packer's decision to ditch Hollywood means he escaped the fallout from the sex scandal engulfing his former buddy.
The Warner Bros financing deal, which is the cornerstone of RatPac's business, is now over thanks to the Hollywood studio ditching the tainted Ratner and RatPac.
That is not something Packer would have needed on his rap sheet – which would have come on top of the significant losses from backing celluloid turkeys.
Ratner has also lost the office he shared with Packer on the Warner Bros' Burbank lot – a bungalow once occupied by Frank Sinatra.
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Australian Billionaire James Packer Talks to Police in Criminal Probe of Gifts to Netanyahu
Josh Breiner Nov 29, 2017
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.825818
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/middle-east/james-packer-interviewed-by-afp-over-israeli-investigation-into-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-20171130-gzvpai.html
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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu, corruption
Reuters Staff DECEMBER 2, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-protests/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-corruption-idUSKBN1DW0Q8
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - About 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is under criminal investigation over allegations of abuse of office.
The demonstration was by far the largest of weekly anti-corruption protests sparked by corruption allegations against Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing.
The four-term leader is suspected of involvement in two cases. The first involves receiving gifts from wealthy businessmen and the second involves negotiating a deal with a newspaper owner for better coverage in return for curbs on a rival daily.
Saturday’s protest was prompted by a draft law expected to be ratified by parliament next week, which would bar police from publishing its findings in two investigations of Netanyahu.
Critics say the draft law is a blatant attempt to protect Netanyahu and keep the public in the dark about his investigation. Supporters of the legislation say it is meant to protect suspects’ rights.
Netanyahu has said he has no interest in promoting personal legislation but he has not ordered its two sponsors, close confidants in his Likud party, to withdraw the bill.
Netanyahu has described himself as a victim of a political witch hunt and said of the cases against him: “There will be nothing because there is nothing.”
If charged, he would come under heavy pressure to resign or could call an election to test whether he still had a mandate.
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All I want for Hanukkah is for Russiagate to turn into Israelgate.
1:59 PM - 2 Dec 2017
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> Make My Wish Come True. All I want For Christmas Is Jew - Mariah Carey
> Singer Mariah Carey and billionaire boyfriend in Israel for 'spiritual meeting'
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> http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.663296
> "business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen."
One Scandal To The Next: From ‘Russia-Gate’ to ‘Israel-Gate’
> Singer Mariah Carey and billionaire boyfriend in Israel for 'spiritual meeting'
> By Haaretz Jun. 27, 2015
> http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.663296
> "business partner, Hollywood producer Brett Ratner, told a Jewish audience in Los Angeles in April that Packer had purchased a house next door to the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had recently become an Israeli citizen."
December 04th, 2017 By Justin Raimondo
http://www.mintpressnews.com/one-scandal-to-the-next-from-russia-gate-to-israel-gate/235148/
Life is full of surprises. Like that time you were counting on a new bike for Christmas, and were totally certain your parents were going to come through, and then – lo and behold! – on Christmas morning there it was: a spanking brand-new Segway! The final evidence that, despite your best efforts, you’d always be a nerdy little dork. (And yes, a pocket calculator turned up in your stocking,)
That’s just what happened to #TheResistance this holiday season. For months they’ve been salivating heavily in anticipation of the turning of Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor now charged with lying to the FBI. Flynn has admitted doing so on at least two occasions, both involving his answers to questions about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kisylak. During the transition – after Trump’s election but before he took office – Flynn was talking to the Russians about two subjects: the possible blowback from the Obama administration’s decision to impose more sanctions and close the Russian compound in Maryland, and the Russian position on the controversial UN resolution condemning Israel for building yet more “settlements” on Palestinian land.
The incoming Trump team was “intensely focused on improving relations with Moscow and was willing to intervene to pursue that goal,” as the New York Times phrased it, even as the war cries in the Democratic party got louder and demagogues like Adam Schiff waved the bloody shirt of Russia-gate. That took balls: and here’s another instance where the alleged non-interventionists ensconced in the world of think tanks and academia fail to give the Trump people the credit that is their due.
Think about it, folks: both the US and the Russians possess enough nuclear firepower to destroy all life on earth several times over. This sword of Damocles is hanging over us by a thread, just as it loomed large during the last cold war with Moscow. It’s a machinery of annihilation that is set on hair-trigger alert, and any number of events could unleash it: a miscalculation, a foolish bluff, a misunderstanding, a technical glitch, a showdown similar to the Cuban missile crisis. All that stands between us and utter extinction is the hope that this apparatus of death can be restrained by mutual agreement. Bravo to the Trump administration for making peace a priority. If this is now a crime, and even “treason,” as the mouth-breathers of #TheResistance would have it, well then let the Washington Inquisition make the most of it.
I feel obligated to repeat my admonition of the various Beltway careerists who light up the small firmament of anti-interventionism: why no defense of the White House on this vitally important issue?
Given the scope of a special counsel’s powers, and the wide berth he is given to pursue possible violations to the law far removed from his original mandate, perhaps we should have expected that some other foreign connection would come to light. Flynn was instructed by none other than Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law, to approach “every member of the Security Council” to block the resolution condemning the seizure of Palestinian property. The Russians were directly contacted by Flynn, who asked them to veto the resolution in the Security Council.
Flynn’s unsuccessful efforts on behalf of the Israelis were the fruit of an Israeli appeal to the incoming Trump administration. The day after Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador on this subject an anonymous Israeli official told CNN “that Israel – and reportedly the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, himself – had contacted Trump to seek his assistance in killing the resolution.”
As special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe continues, the full extent of the covert Israeli effort to undermine what was then US policy will come to light, and this may prove to be the most revealing aspect of the whole affair.
What’s interesting is that an Israeli official would come right out and brazenly boast of having turned to the Trump team to stop the resolution:
The official – in comments that may come back to haunt the White House – said that Israel had ‘implored the [Obama] White House not to go ahead and told them that if they did, we would have no choice but to reach out to President-elect Trump.
“We did reach out to the president-elect,’ the official added, ‘and are deeply appreciative that he weighed in, which was not a simple thing to do.’”
By inserting that information into the public record, the legal case against both Flynn and possibly other figures in the Trump administration is considerably strengthened. Which makes one wonder: did the Israelis deliberately burn Trump?
Yes, I’m indulging in pure speculation, and yet why would an Israeli official openly discuss such a delicate matter? Even as the outgoing Obama-bots were setting the trap for Flynn – an effort Tel Aviv may well have been privy to – the Israelis were letting the world know that they had the Americans in their pocket.
This is more grist for Mueller’s mill: aside from that, Kushner has financial and political links to Israel, and these are now likely coming under the special counsel’s scrutiny. One can now see what direction this investigation may be taking us: Instead of revealing collusion between the Trump team and the Russians, the Flynn indictment exposed Kushner’s collusion with Israel.
Has Russia-gate morphed into Israel-gate?
If this is, indeed, the direction Mueller is taking, then this development is certain to end the fondest hopes of #TheResistance. Because it’s highly unlikely any public official, no matter how compromised, is going to be prosecuted for collusion with the Israelis and/or their American lobby. The last time US law enforcement tried that was back in 2009, in the Larry Franklin spy scandal, in which two employees of AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobby, were prosecuted for procuring vital secrets from National Security Council analyst Larry Franklin. That case was dropped because pursuing it would have revealed yet more secrets.
That was a case of outright espionage: “collusion” is a far different – and much vaguer – matter. In any event, the fact is that after what seems like years of accusations, not a single iota of actual evidence has corroborated the charge that the Trump campaign plotted with Putin to deprive Hillary Clinton of her divine right of succession to the Oval Office. The foundational myth upon which the Mueller investigation rests – the idea that Russia was behind the WikiLeaks email dump – was never real to begin with: the Mueller probe, therefore, once launched, branched out into a more general look at foreign influence on the incoming administration. Which could and should mean that half of Washington will soon be lawyering up.
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By Rachel Yang December 20, 2019
https://ew.com/music/2019/12/20/mariah-carey-releases-new-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-music-video-featuring-kids/
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