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It has all the ingredients of a sumptuous period drama: five brothers set out to make their fortune and build an empire that spans the globe.

So who better to adapt the story of the Rothschild dynasty than Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey?

Fellowes is working on a series about the financiers whose influence spread across Europe in the 19th century. It is being produced by Jemima Khan, who can declare a personal interest in the family: her brothers, Zac and Ben, both married Rothschild heiresses.

The drama is titled Five Arrows - a reference to the design on the Rothschild coat of arms, in which a fistful of arrows represents the five sons.

The Rothschilds have been in the news lately "for awful reasons", Fellowes said, featuring in the crude mural at the centre of the Labour Party anti-Semitism row.

He told the Telegraph: "The fact is they are an extraordinary family and that first generation, when the father sent these five sons to the capitals of Europe and within 10 years they had this enormous success, was brilliant."

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Did we get this last week?

Alex Soros opened up to the Israeli news source Yedioth Ahronoth during a press conference in Berlin last week. The 33-year-old philanthropist and Founding Chair of Bend the Arc, a Jewish social action group, spoke to journalist Nahum Barnea about everything ranging from Trump to a two-state solution, Jewish Insider reported.

The younger Soros also recalled that his billionaire father, George Soros, gave him some advice about Donald Trump, who was then a wealthy businessman with no obvious political plans.

“You know that Donald Trump is the son of a rich father, who grew up rich from childhood. I also grew up in wealth. My father used to warn me — jokingly — as a child: ‘Never be like Trump,’” he said.

He also credited his father for instilling Zionism in him — albeit a more liberal version than the dominant ideology in today’s Israel.

“[George Soros] thinks that Israel has the right to exist… If it did not matter to him, he wouldn’t have advised me, at the time (after his Bar mitzvah ceremony), to emigrate to Israel. My father would like to see Israel in the image of Yitzhak Rabin.”

Soros added that both he and his father are supporters of a two-state solution— and that maybe in the future he will use his money to push for it.

“If Sheldon Adelson can invest in Israeli politics, I can, too,” he said, referring to the right-wing megadonor. “I am young.”

Contact Haley Cohen at hcohen@forward.com