https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman_Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_D'Amato
Edgar Sr. has been hunting Swiss bankers who profited from Nazi evil and Jewish sorrow. He recruited Sen. Al D’Amato to hold hearings on Swiss misdeeds, persuaded the Clinton administration to investigate, and eventually forced the Swiss to pony up $7 billion to compensate Jewish victims.
>Edgar Sr. has been hunting Swiss bankers who profited from Nazi evil and Jewish sorrow. He recruited Sen. Al D’Amato to hold hearings on Swiss misdeeds, persuaded the Clinton administration to investigate, and eventually forced the Swiss to pony up $7 billion to compensate Jewish victims.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050205161154/http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/11/swiss.gold/index.html
Holocaust victims suggest 'good faith' payment from Swiss
December 11, 1996
The U.S. House Banking Committee began a hearing Wednesday into Swiss banks' World War II dealings with Nazis. Several Jewish Holocaust victims told the hearing that they want Swiss banks to make a "good faith financial gesture" to Holocaust victims.
According to Jewish groups, Swiss banks hold some $7 billion in assets and interest belonging to Jewish families. Swiss banks say the Jewish groups' estimate is inflated, but acknowledge that they have found about $35 million in dormant accounts that could have belonged to European Jews or other non-Swiss residents during the war.
The money and other assets, including gold, artwork, and jewelry, were deposited more than 50 years ago by wealthy Jews who hoped they would be able to collect their belongings after World War II.
Few of the depositors survived the Holocaust. Now, their survivors are fighting the banks, whose officials say many of their World War II-era records have been destroyed. Complicating the survivors' efforts are secretive Swiss banking laws, which make finding accounts difficult and expensive.
Alice Fisher's entire family was killed in the Holocaust. She says she cannot get back the money her father sent to Switzerland, which remained neutral during World War II.
"I didn't seek any German compensation," Fisher told the congressional hearing. "But this is my money, and the Swiss banks have no right to withhold it from me."
In a highly unusual move, the Swiss government sent the head of its task force dealing with assets of Nazi victims to the hearing. Thomas Borer gave the hearing his "personal commitment" that all the money would be returned, and untraceable assets would go to charities.
"We view this as a moral imperative," he said. "So it can be assured as fast as we find something, we are going to give it back. No penny should stay in Switzerland."
Borer said the Swiss government will establish a commission this week to search all records, even those of Nazis who may have deposited money stolen from Jews. But, he said, it's a complex undertaking and may take two to three years.
For many aging Holocaust survivors, two to three years is a lifetime. Sen. Al D'Amato, R-New York, endorsed the idea of a payment to Jewish Holocaust victims, "as a sign of good faith in the face of the damning information that is emerging" about Swiss banks and the government's dealings with Nazis.
He also remarked that he would like to see the Swiss government act "sooner rather than later" on the issue.
>Sen. Al D'Amato, R-New York, endorsed the idea of a payment to Jewish Holocaust victims, "as a sign of good faith in the face of the damning information that is emerging" about Swiss banks and the government's dealings with Nazis.
>He also remarked that he would like to see the Swiss government act "sooner rather than later" on the issue.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/al-damatos-wife-has-video-of-estranged-husband-berating-her/
Al D’Amato’s wife has video of estranged husband berating her
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)
sifr, cipher, zephyr, zero
The word zero came into the English language via French zéro from Italian zero, Italian contraction of Venetian zevero form of 'Italian zefiro via ṣafira or ṣifr.[6] In pre-Islamic time the word ṣifr (Arabic ) had the meaning "empty".[7] Sifr evolved to mean zero when it was used to translate śūnya (Sanskrit : शून्य) from India .[7] The first known English use of zero was in 1598.[8]
The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c. 1170–1250), who grew up in North Africa and is credited with introducing the decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum. This became zefiro in Italian, and was then contracted to zero in Venetian. The Italian word zefiro was already in existence (meaning "west wind" from Latin and Greek zephyrus) and may have influenced the spelling when transcribing Arabic ṣifr.[9]
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/emmanuel-macron-meets-with-yair-lapid-days-before-israeli-elections/
Emmanuel Macron meets with Yair Lapid four days before Israeli elections
Four days before Israel’s general elections, Blue and White party No. 2 Yair Lapid met privately with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Lapid, whose party is neck and neck in the polls with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, landed in the French capital on Friday for the meeting. Reporters were not invited to attend the exchange.
Israel’s Channel 12 suggested the meeting was a move initiated by Macron to “help Lapid win the elections” on Tuesday.
Lapid’s staff told the television channel only that the politician would discuss with Macron “the Middle East, the Iranian threat and the war on anti-Semitism in Europe.”
The unusual meeting between a head of state and an opposition politician took place four days before the Knesset elections, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and less than two weeks after the Israeli leader met with US President Donald Trump at the White House.
Lapid, who has long shown a great interest in diplomacy, leading some to call him a self-styled shadow foreign minister, considers Macron a “friend” and even endorsed him in the 2017 French presidential election.