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Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem CNN —If his first term in the White House is any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is likely to keep the Middle East high on his agenda. But the Middle East has changed significantly since he left office in 2021, and all regional actors are keenly watching how the new president will navigate these shifts. Here’s how Trump’s election could affect key players in the Middle East:Israel and the PalestiniansEnding the wars in Gaza and Lebanon and integrating Israel in the Middle East are likely to be at the top of the president-elect’s Middle East agenda, analysts said. “When the war will be over, you’ll need a real restart in the Middle East,” and Trump will be the best person to bring about a “new Middle East,” Bismuth added. Nadav Shtrauchler, a political strategist who has worked closely with Netanyahu, said Trump’s election sends a message to Israel’s enemies in Iran.

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☆ Hollywood goes conservative as an economic shift fuels a turn toward faith and family-based shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

After playing to the coasts, Hollywood is leaning toward faith and family-based shows and films. The Prime Video series will be the first to come out of Amazon's deal with The Wonder Project, a Christian-focused production company, for faith-based films and TV shows. After playing to the coasts with shows that embraced progressive themes, Hollywood is leaning into broadly appealing fare. That shift has included a combination of undeniably faith-based, conservative-themed, and family-aimed entertainment, agents, producers, and industry experts say. "Conservative, faith-based, family, is not a bad place to look," Thompson said.

Persons: —, David, Vernon Sanders, Jennifer Salke, Nick Barnes, UTA's, Kevin Costner, Bob Iger, Tyler Perry, DeVon Franklin, Ruth, Boaz, Mary, Anthony Hopkins, Tim McGraw, Jim Caviezel, Jesus, Dallas Jenkins, Jon Erwin, UTA's Barnes, Jesus of Nazareth, Angel, Robert Thompson, Thompson, Hilary Swank, Jamie McCarthy, That's, Jason Blum, Taylor Sheridan, Barnes Organizations: Netflix, Service, Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount, Heartland, Disney, Angel, Angel Studios, Wonder, Networks, Cable, Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, Center for Television, Popular, Conservative, York, Kingdom, Co, Lionsgate, UTA, Ampere Locations: Hollywood, UTA's Nashville, Los Angeles, American, California, America, Yellowstone, Georgia , Texas, Tennessee

☆ Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The consequences could be disastrous for all
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Mick Krever | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Nor, he said, was he motivated by the claim that UNRWA perpetuates Palestinian refugee status. AFP/Getty ImagesThe entrance to Aida Refugee Camp, near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. “If they shut down UNRWA, that means there is no Palestinian refugee cause. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty ImagesAn UNRWA school in al-Am'ari Refugee Camp, in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, after an Israeli raid in September.

Persons: Jerusalem CNN — Benjamin Netanyahu, –, “, Nikki Haley, ”, Israel –, Donald Trump’s, Netanyahu –, Trump’s, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – Netanyahu, ‘, Boaz, Hani Alshaer, Israel, ” –, Netanyahu, Aaron David Miller, Mick Krever, ” Philippe Lazzarini, they’re, Diana Buttu, ’ Saleh Shunnar, “ Israel, Miller, Mahmoud Issa, Deir, Abd Abu Amra, Dawoud Abo, Issam, Chris Sidoti, Nadav Tamir, ’, Nur Shams, Mohamad Torokman, Jerusalem –, don’t, ” Tamir, Zeena, Abeer Salman, Mohammed Al, Shira Gemer Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, US, United, UN, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, West Bank, UNRWA, Israel Defense Forces, Qassam, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Washington Post, Assembly, CNN, Refugees, UNHCR, Reuters, Dawoud, Dawoud Abo Alkas, East, UN’s Independent International Commission of, Geneva Convention, Anadolu, J, Israel Locations: Jerusalem, Israel, American, Gaza, ”, Hamas, Be’eri, British, Palestine, AFP, Bethlehem, Swiss, “, Deir Al, Palestinian, Gaza City, Anadolu, al, Ramallah, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, East Jerusalem, Australian, Palestinian Territory, “ Israel, Geneva, New York, Tulkarm

Israel's parliament voted Monday to ban the operations of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, the main humanitarian aid agency operating in Gaza. "This is the latest in the ongoing campaign to discredit UNRWA and delegitimize its role towards providing human-development assistance and services to #Palestine Refugees," Lazzarini wrote. UNRWA is a U.N. aid organization established in 1949 to provide aid and protection to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Some Israeli critics have said that the agency perpetuates a false narrative that Palestinians are refugees, which Lazzarini referenced in his statement. And U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was declared “persona non grata" by Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, and was banned from entering Israel.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Philippe Lazzarini, Israel, Biden, Matthew Miller, Miller, Lazzarini, Netanyahu, Michael Martin, Boaz, Antonio Guterres, Israel Katz Organizations: United Nations, UNRWA, . State Department, State Department, Palestine Refugees, West, UN, Ireland, Agency, Assembly, Israel Defense Forces, . Interim Forces, U.N Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, France, Germany, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, East, organization’s

☆ Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That could be devastating for millions
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | Salma Arafa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences for millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. The move is expected to severely restrict the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating in territories Israel occupies. In the Gaza Strip, which has been ravaged by a devastating Israeli war for more than a year, UNRWA serves some 1.7 million Palestinian refugees. Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty ImagesThe agency provides a wide range of aid and services to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, including shelter, healthcare, food and education. It is unclear who would assume assistance for the millions of Palestinian refugees who rely on UNRWA, if it wasn’t able to.

Persons: CNN —, Boaz, Yuli Edelstein, Israel, Antony Blinken, ’, Asma, Omar Al, ”, ” Yulia Malinovsky, Ilia Yefimovich, “, António Guterres, Benjamin Netanyahu, ” Guterres, Guterres, Aida Touma, Suleiman, ” Touma, United Kingdom –, Lloyd Austin, Biden Organizations: CNN, United Nations, UNRWA, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Likud, US State Department, UN, Hamas, Israel, West Bank, Getty, Commission, Refugees, UNRWA …, Palestinian, World Health Organization, WHO, UNHCR, US Locations: Israel, Israel …, Gaza, United States, ”, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, East Jerusalem, Gaza City, AFP, New York, Geneva, Brussels, UNHCR, Jerusalem, El Far’a, Palestinian Territory, Crescent, Israeli, Arab, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom

☆ Israel's interceptor missiles are under pressure as threats loom larger
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Israel is facing an interceptor missile shortage, sources told the Financial Times. The head of an Israeli manufacturer of interceptor missiles said its production lines are working 24/7. Stroul also noted that the US is reaching a "tipping point," and may struggle to keep supplying Ukraine and Israel with interceptor missiles at the current pace. AdvertisementHe told Business Insider that he doubts Israel would fully exhaust its interceptor missile supply, and to approach the narrative of an Israeli interceptor missile shortage with caution. According to estimates, the Iron Dome's "Tamir" interceptor missiles cost about $50,000 each.

Persons: —, Dana Stroul, Stroul, Ehud Eilam, Israel, Boaz Levy, Levy, Wertman, Hassan Nasrallah, Tamir, Pat Ryder Organizations: Financial Times, Service, Israel's Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces, NPR, Israel Aerospace Industries, University of South, US, Defense, Pentagon Locations: Israel, Iran, Ukraine, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Yemen, University of South Wales

☆ Death of Hedge Fund Stars: Wall Street, Stock Market Titans Are Gone
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Take activist hedge funds, which buy up a percentage of a company's stock (or an asset) and then use their weight to push for operational changes. Or there would be a fun, splashy war between the hedge fund and the C-suite. Hedge funds rely on outperforming the market when times are hard and it's easier to find pockets of outperformance and exploit them. Of course, hedge funds are having a hard time coming up with a crew because the clients have changed too. Advertisement"At the end of the 1960s, the bubble burst, and everyone thought, 'That's the end of hedge funds,'" Mallaby said.

Persons: David Tepper, Anthony Scaramucci, Lenny Kravitz, lanyards, Bobby Jain, Goldman Sachs, Denise Shull, Charles Lemonides, ValueWorks, Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein, BlackRock, Nelson Peltz, Bob Iger, Paul Singer's Elliott, —, Elliott, Meir Statman, Statman, I'm, That's, Paris, Marc Jacobs, they've, they're, Sebastian Mallaby, Julian Robertson, Julian, Mallaby, Lemonides, wonky quants, Keith Gill, David Einhorn, Andrew Left, bro Organizations: Appaloosa Management, Carolina Panthers, Bellagio, Millennium Management, Credit Suisse, Jain, Disney, Paul Singer's Elliott Management, Santa Clara University, Behavioral Finance, New, Tiger Management, Met, rockstar, Ferrari, Greenlight, Harvard, Princeton grad, Research Locations: Vegas , New York City, Singapore, Argentine

☆ BlackRock directors keep seats at six funds in proxy battle with Saba
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"Based on the preliminary results from last week's shareholder meetings, it is clear that shareholders have rejected both Saba's nominees and its efforts to displace BlackRock as investment advisor to the Funds," BlackRock said in a statement. Saba, run by prominent investor Boaz Weinstein, and BlackRock, the world's biggest asset management company with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, have been locked in battle for months over the future of 10 BlackRock closed end funds. Saba wants investors to elect its nominees to the BlackRock funds' boards and fire BlackRock as manager at some of them. Some $1.4 billion in value could be unlocked at the funds by cutting the funds' discount to their net asset value, he has said. The 10 BlackRock funds jointly oversee roughly $10 billion in assets.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, BlackRock, Boaz Weinstein, Saba, Weinstein, Svea Herbst, Bayliss, Josie Kao Organizations: REUTERS, BlackRock, Saba Capital Management, Services, BIGZ, ISS, Svea, Thomson Locations: BlackRock, New York City, U.S, Saba

☆ Cybersecurity professionals share best practices for securing 5G networks
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Professionals at the RSA Conference shared insights on securing 5G devices and networks. Business Insider spoke with several cybersecurity professionals at the annual RSA Conference, which took place from May 6 to 9 in San Francisco. Private 5G networks will change the way in which everything connects." Here are cybersecurity professionals' best practices for securing 5G devices and networks. That's because as more devices get connected to 5G networks, the bigger the attack surface becomes.

Persons: —, Nathan Howe, it's, Andrea Carcano, Boaz Gelbord, Donna Johnson, you've, Christine Gadsby, It's, Darren Guccione, Guccione, Jimmy Mesta, Carcano Organizations: RSA, Service, Business, RSA Conference, Nozomi Networks, BlackBerry, RAD Security Locations: San Francisco, cybersecurity

☆ Activist Boaz Weinstein says BlackRock funds are 'crushing shareholder rights'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Boaz Weinstein, the hedge fund investor on the winning side of JPMorgan Chase's $6.2 billion, "London Whale" trading loss in 2011, is now taking on index fund giant BlackRock . The hedge fund wants board control at three BlackRock funds and a minority slate at seven others. BlackRock, Saba says in the deck, "considers itself a leader in governance, but is crushing shareholder rights." At certain BlackRock funds, for example, if an investor doesn't submit their vote in a shareholder meeting, their shares will automatically go to support BlackRock. The index fund manager's rebuttal, "Defend Your Fund," describes Saba as an activist hedge fund seeking to "enrich itself."

Persons: Boaz Weinstein, Saba, Weinstein, doesn't Organizations: Saba Capital Management, Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase's, Weinstein's, CNBC, BlackRock, affirmatively Locations: New York, BlackRock, Weinstein's Saba, Saba

☆ Hedge-fund manager Boaz Weinstein says meme stock rally makes 'mockery' of investing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The meme stock craze is back , but hedge-fund titan Boaz Weinstein said he wants nothing to do with it. The resurgence of meme mania began late Sunday when " Roaring Kitty ," the man who first ignited the meme stock phenomenon through GameStop in 2021, posted on X for the first time since then. Beyond meme stocks, Weinstein said there's sure to be plenty of volatility in the "foggy" market in the months to come, citing inflation, geopolitics and the upcoming U.S. presidential election. When you put all that together … we're going to have a credit crunch in the next couple of years if things don't change." "Maybe in both cases, there's going to be plenty of volatility, and I'm quite excited for it," he added.

Persons: Boaz Weinstein, Weinstein, CNBC's, there's, … we're, Donald Trump Organizations: Saba Capital Management, GameStop, AMC

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Saba Capital's Boaz WeinsteinBoaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer at Saba Capital Management, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss their firm's fight against BlackRock over closed-end funds, how he sees the resurgence of meme stocks craze and more.

Persons: Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein Boaz Weinstein Organizations: Saba Capital Management, BlackRock

☆ Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein on BlackRock campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSaba Capital's Boaz Weinstein on BlackRock campaignBoaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer at Saba Capital Management, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss their firm's fight against BlackRock over closed-end funds, how he sees the resurgence of meme stocks craze and more.

Persons: Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein, Boaz Weinstein Organizations: BlackRock, Saba Capital Management

☆ An Arms Smugger, a Daring Heist, and the Birth of Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. "It went against the grain to buck the same government we had fought to preserve only a few years before," Hank Greenspun recalled. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

Persons: Danny Schwimmer, They'd, Rina, Al —, David Ben, Gurion, Al Schwimmer, Schwimmer, Bugsy Siegel's, Meyer Lansky, Frank Sinatra, Sinatra, —, Boaz Dvir, Israel —, Danny, Al, I've, Hank Greenspun, Greenspun, Brian, Adolph, Dick Tracy, " Schwimmer, Wing Walker, America, Yehuda Arazi, Arazi, they'd, Schwimmer's, Sam Lewis, Leo Gardner, Milton, Milt, Rubenfeld, Paul Reubens, Herman, Reubens, Bugsy Siegel, Siegel, — Schwimmer, Nathan Liff, Liff, PhotoQuest, Bernarr McFadden, Pat, Ptacek, Rafael Trujillo, Teddy Kollek, Erwin Johnson, Bill Gerson, Gerson, Bud King, Gerson's, Ben, Joel Kimmel, Lewis, Lansky, hadn't, Tommy, Messerschmitts, David, Milt Rubenfeld, Israel, Charlie Winters, Winters, weren't, aren't, America's, Joseph McCarthy, John F, Kennedy, Brian Greenspun, Golda Meir, Bill Clinton Organizations: Israeli Air Force, TWA, Haganah, United Nations, Lockheed Air, Los Angeles Examiner, USC, Getty, US Naval, Schwimmer Aviation, FBI, UN, Customs Service, Palestine . Volunteers, Embassy, Israel, Service Airways, State Department, BI, Pepsi, Zionist, Nazi, Star, American, Avia, Messerschmitt, Pennsylvania State University who's, Las, Sun, Israel Aerospace Industries, IAI, they're, Israeli Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, Connecticut, Palestine, New York, Copacabana, United States, Hungary, Auschwitz, storages, Arizona, Bridgeport, Rome, Burbank , California, Burbank, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Oahu, Santa Claus, California, Washington, Burbank ., Acapulco, Mexico, it's, Mexico City, Central, South America, Dominican Republic, China, America, Mexican, Panama, Panamanian, Corsica, Oklahoma, Detroit, Suriname, Brazil, Senegal, Casablanca, Sicily, Catania, Europe, Czechoslovakia, Czech, Egypt, Cairo, Los Angeles, American, Gaza, Iran

☆ 'America's greatest gift to Israel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

As the country's founder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, once declared, "America's greatest gift to Israel was Al Schwimmer." Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

☆ Why some 40 Israeli hostages may have gone missing in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementSix experts on hostage-negotiation efforts, who spoke to Business Insider, explained how Hamas might have been able to allow hostages to go missing in Gaza. "You've got to appreciate that there's lots of confusion, with the fact that Gaza is essentially a warzone," he told Business Insider. Hamas rounded up a lot of hostages on October 7, and Gaza quickly found itself in a state of chaos amid Israeli retaliatory strikes. All of the aboveFor Chris White, the co-founder of Negotiation Global, who has experience of hostage negotiations in Gaza, hostages going missing could be plausibly explained by all of the above explanations. He told Business Insider: "Is it possible that some hostages escaped?

Persons: —, Scott Walker, You've, Brian Carter, Lebanon's, Hans, Jakob Schindler, Schindler, I've, There's, Roni Krivoy, Rachel Briggs, Boaz Ganor, Ganor, Chris White, Hamas doesn't Organizations: Business, Service, Financial Times, UN, Hamas, Martyrs ' Brigade, Wall, Counter, Factory, Israel's Reichman University, Negotiation Locations: Israel, Gaza, al, Jihad

☆ ‘Never going back.’ Israelis evacuated from border town with Lebanon fear war with Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Tara John | Adi Koplewitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

There are fears of a full-blown confrontation with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon – that would open up a dangerous new front in the war. Israelis who were evacuated from the north of the country and seen in a hotel lobby in Tiberias, Israel, on November 16. They have lived through the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and fight with Hezbollah in 2006. View of the Sea of Galilee from a hotel in Tiberias, Israel, on November 16. Tara John/CNNA group of cousins, who were evacuated from the town of Dovev, knit quietly in a hotel lobby in Tiberias, Israel on November 16.

Persons: Jesus, Boaz Yosef, Tara John, Hassan Nasrallah, Elana Pilveny, ”, ’, Shoshana, “, ” Pilveny, Yosef, Israel “, Yoav Gallant, David Shenfer, ” Shenfer, Israel’s, Kibbutz Bar’am, “ We’ve, ” Lea Raivitz, Raivitz Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Reuters, Defense Ministry, Israeli, Nations, CNN Hezbollah, Kibbutz, Residents Locations: Tiberias, Galilee, Israel, Lebanon, Dovev, Israel’s, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Beirut, Kiryat Shmona, Lebanese, View, overflights

☆ Saba Capital's 2023 woes continue. Two of its funds are down more than 10% this year.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The two biggest funds at Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital are down by more than 10% this year. According to HSBC's weekly report, the flagship fund has lost close to 12%. Weinstein came into 2023 bearish about the economy, which has been resilient despite rising rates. Saba Capital — the $4.8 billion hedge fund manager run by Boaz Weinstein — hasn't had the best year. Two of its funds — the flagship and a more hedged version — are down 11.9% and 10.6%, respectively, through November 10, according to the latest edition of HSBC's Hedge Weekly.

Persons: Boaz Weinstein's, Weinstein, Boaz Weinstein — hasn't, — Organizations: Saba, HSBC's, Financial Times, Federal Reserve, Business Locations: Boaz Weinstein's Saba, Saba Capital, New York

☆ UChicago psychologist shares his No.1 brain hack for critical thinking and memory skills: Think in a foreign language
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Ece Yildirim | In Ecedyildirim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Your second language presents a brain shortcutSpeaking in your native language is easy — and it can lull your brain into being less able to process information objectively, says Gallo. When that happens, you're stuck in a mindset Gallo refers to as "hot cognition," also known as "System 1 thinking." "When you are thinking in your second language, you are being very analytical and careful about the surface-level features of information," he explains. Using your second language acts as a quick shortcut into "Spock mode," Gallo says. It can help you avoid false memories and misinformationThe benefits of a second language extend beyond analytical thinking, says Gallo.

Persons: David Gallo, monolinguals, Gallo, Monolinguals, Boaz Keysar, —, Spock, It's, Rosetta Stone Organizations: University of Chicago, Research, CNBC

☆ Stars of the Netflix show 'Fauda' about an undercover Israeli army unit are conducting real-life rescue missions in the current conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stars of Netflix's "Fauda" about an undercover Israeli army unit have rejoined the IDF in real life. Idan Amedi posted a video in uniform saying, "This is not a scene from 'Fauda.' NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . From left to right: Boaz Konforty, Doron Ben-David, Lior Raz, Idan Amedi, and Yaakov Zada Daniel.

Persons: Lior Raz, Idan Amedi, —, Doron Kavillio, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Raz, Avi Issacharoff, Yohanan Plesner, Boaz Konforty, Doron Ben, David, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Netflix Idan, Sagi, Amedi, Ted Sarandos, Lior Waitzman, there's, Sarandos, Netanyahu Organizations: Service, Netflix, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Brothers, Israel Democracy Institute, Bloomberg, Gaza's Ministry of Health Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Harvard is temporarily closing off its historic center to visitors at night, as backlash continues to roil against students blaming Israel for Hamas' attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Harvard told students in an email that its historic center would be closed to non-ID holders nightly until Monday, the Harvard Crimson reported. Harvard Yard is the oldest part of the university campus and is where most freshman dormitories are housed. The move comes amid an escalating backlash against student groups that cosigned a letter blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks. AdvertisementAdvertisementHarvard is closing off its historic center, Harvard Yard, to visitors at night until Monday, amid an escalating backlash against students who cosigned a letter blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks, the Harvard Crimson reported Thursday, citing an email sent to students. Harvard Yard is a 25-acre green space that is the oldest part of the university campus and is where most freshman dormitories are housed.

Persons: Israel, —, Meredith Weenick, Bill Ackman, Larry Summers, Jason Furman, Boaz Barak, Harvard Hillel Organizations: Harvard, Harvard Crimson, Service, Harvard Yard, Harvard University Police Department Locations: Israel

☆ Former Harvard president Larry Summers thinks Bill Ackman asking for lists of student names is the 'stuff of Joe McCarthy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill Ackman wants Harvard to disclose the names of students blaming Israel for Hamas attacks so potential employers can avoid hiring them. Former Harvard president Larry Summers told Bloomberg he thought Ackman was "getting a bit carried away" with his call. Summers told Bloomberg in an interview on Wednesday he thought Ackman was "getting a bit carried away" with his call for the university to release students' names. Many in the groups had no idea there was even going to be a letter," Summers said during the interview. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe former Harvard president echoed some of these sentiments in a post he published on X shortly after the interview.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Israel, Larry Summers, Ackman, Joe McCarthy, —, Ackman's, Summers, McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, Ted Cruz, Boaz Barak, Harvard Hillel — Organizations: Harvard, Bloomberg, Service, Harvard University, American, Ackman

☆ Our crisis of loneliness, the new bet investors are going after
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Not long after founding the startup, Gaon shared his vision with famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. It was notable to Gaon at the time that Andreessen — "one of those investors who's known for seeing where the market is going" — appeared to have pinpointed loneliness as its own market. That moved her parents, Cindy and Anne Jordan, who had sold their first healthtech company years before, to found the Arizona company Pyx Health. "The loneliness crisis is bigger, and more urgent, than anything I've worked on before," Nyborg wrote in a blog post. Inspired debuted a thesis in 2020 that identified loneliness as a key focus for the firm to invest in.

Persons: Benjamin Gaon, Boaz Gaon, Benny, Gaon, Marc Andreessen, Andreessen, Wisdo, —, Anne Wojcicki, Marius Nacht, Andreessen Horowitz, Vivek Murthy, Betsy Hoover, Bumble, Rylie Sarabia, Cindy, Anne Jordan, policyholders, Dawn Owens, it's, Owens, Julie Rice, Elizabeth Cutler, Rice, Peoplehood, Phil Levin, Levin, Culdesac, Renate Nyborg, I've, Nyborg, Hugo Amsellem, He's, Ava, Catalyst, Nate Tepper, Tepper, Adam Besvinick, Frances Haugen, Hoover, Alexa von Tobel, von Tobel, David Spinks Organizations: Pyx, Labs, verve, Investors, Pyx Health, TT Capital Partners, New, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capita, AI Fund, NEA, AIs, Looking Glass, Anonymous, Glass, Facebook, Bloomberg Locations: Arizona, Minneapolis, New York, Ava, France, Peoplehood, Hopscotch

☆ Weinstein group revises Sculptor bid after board's concerns -Bloomberg News
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Boaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer at Saba Capital Management, speaks during the SALT conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Richard Brian Acquire Licensing RightsSept 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street investor Boaz Weinstein and his group of bidders have revised their offer to buy hedge fund firm Sculptor Capital Management (SCU.N), Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The group, called Bidder J, which includes Bill Ackman, Marc Lasry and Jeff Yass, as well as Weinstein, made the offer for Sculptor last month. Sculptor Capital Management and Weinstein's Saba Capital Management didn't immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on Wednesday. Sculptor chose to stay with Rithm's $11.15 per share bid, saying the Bidder J offer had "significantly less certainty of closing."

Persons: Boaz Weinstein, Richard Brian Acquire, Bill Ackman, Marc Lasry, Jeff Yass, Weinstein, Dan Och, Rishabh, Sandra Maler, Leslie Adler Organizations: Saba Capital Management, REUTERS, Wall, Capital Management, Bloomberg, Sculptor Capital Management, Weinstein's Saba Capital Management, Rithm, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, New York, Bengaluru

☆ Wall Street Moguls Win Important Backer in Their Fight Over Hedge Fund Sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Lauren Hirsch | More About Lauren Hirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A coterie of high-profile investors, including Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, Boaz Weinstein of Saba Capital Management and Marc Lasry of Avenue Capital Group, is pushing to buy Sculptor Capital, the successor to the storied hedge fund Och-Ziff — even though the fund has already agreed to sell itself to another investment firm. On Thursday, they gained an important supporter. That deal would value the firm’s class A shares at $11.15, around 18 percent more than they were worth the day it was announced. But shares of the hedge fund have fallen significantly over a longer period, dropping 60 percent over the past two years. The consortium’s most recent offer for Sculptor, disclosed on Wednesday, would value it at about $12.76 for each of its class A shares.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Boaz Weinstein, Marc Lasry, Ziff —, Robert Shafir, Sculptor’s Organizations: Pershing, Saba Capital Management, Avenue Capital, Sculptor Capital, Rithm

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