Word: mordechai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli is also on trial-ex-El Al Security Man Mordechai Rahamim, who jumped from the plane and shot one of the raiders. While free on $23,000 bail, he has been serving as Premier Golda Meir's personal bodyguard. Advised by a battery of lawyers that includes one of the Eichmann prosecutors, he denied charges of manslaughter "under extenuating circumstances," maintaining that he had fired in self-defense. Witnesses claim, however, that the Arab had already been disarmed...
...abdomen (he was later reported recovering). Copilot Moshe Heichel was hit in the hand. Over the plane's loudspeaker, passengers heard Captain Israel Ganot order, "Everybody down on the floor. Don't move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from an emergency exit and ran toward the attackers, firing as he went...
This week El Al President Mordechai Ben-Ari is expected in Seattle to sign up for a second Boeing 747 jumbo jet. He already has options for two of their earliest SST's to be built, and hopes for permission to extend El Al's service to Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, in addition to New York...
Such a return, coupled with Rassco's diversification and Israel's improving trade balance, have made Rassco an attractive investment outside Israel. Managing Director Mordechai Stern, 49, a scholarly onetime Viennese medical student who speaks six languages, divides his time between pushing projects and pulling in foreign capital through nine overseas offices. Rassco has 10,000 investors in 25 countries, but of the $12 million they poured in this year, 75% came from the U.S. "They are doing something good for the country," says Stern fondly of his alien investors (now 60% of Rassco's shareholders), "while...