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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit told the High Court of Justice Tuesday that $300,000 which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received several years ago from his wealthy cousin Nathan Milikowsky is an illicit gift, reversing a position he voiced two years ago in light of new information about the business ties between the men.
Mandelblit previously said the transfer was legitimate but had failed to get an okay from the State Comptroller’s Permits Committee.
The about-face means Netanyahu will have to return $270,000 of the sum. The Permits Committee has previously ordered the premier to return $30,000 which weren’t used for any purpose, while the rest was used to fund the legal defense of Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife.
Rachel Howard January 15, 2021Updated: January 15, 2021, 6:21 pm
The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Martin West. Photo: San Francisco Ballet
Patrons prepared not by fastening their tuxedo cuff links but by downloading an app; the ribs bourguignon were served not piping hot in the War Memorial Opera House halls but reheated in the microwave after home delivery.
Yet there we were on Thursday, Jan. 14, for the opening gala of San Francisco Ballet’s 88th season, connected through our computer screens. There were the dancers, some with their spouses, in little Zoom boxes at virtual “tables,” free to socialize because their performances had been prerecorded.