Word: avner
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Quinn asks colleagues whether Leah Rabin, widow of the slain Israeli Prime Minister, might help. Avner Azulay, Rich's point man in Israel, responds, "Not a bad idea. The problem is how do we contact her? She died last November...
Dozoretz told her ski buddy in Aspen--Rich's ex-wife Denise--who then called Avner Azulay, the head of Rich's foundation in Israel. Azulay sent an e-mail to Rich's Washington lawyer, Jack Quinn, who had been lobbying Clinton in the first place. Denise Rich, the e-mail said, "thinks [Clinton] sounded very positive but that 'we have to keep praying...
Some of the institutions that wrote letters, from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., to Sha'are Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, had no idea what they would be used for. Avner Azoulay, a former Mossad operative who runs the Rich Foundation in Tel Aviv, had asked them to write appreciations for a book about the foundation. "I didn't ask the writers' permission to include their letters in the petition to the President. Why should I? I use these letters in many other cases to show the work we are doing," Azoulay told TIME. Other Rich supporters had financial links...