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...personal. He relied on his boxer's swift, sledgehammer fists and the blade of a knife to terrorize Tel Aviv's shopkeepers, brothel owners and drug dealers into paying protection money. But in the end, what finally got Alperon was that most impersonal of assassin's weapons: the car bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Tel Aviv's Old-Fashioned Mob Kingpin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...sunglasses and drove to a Tel Aviv courthouse to boost the spirits of a son who was being indicted for allegedly running an extortion racket. Afterward, Alperon climbed into a white Volkswagen (he wasn't all that flashy a mobster) and drove into a busy thoroughfare, where the bomb, set off by remote control, exploded. The feared don of one of Israel's most powerful crime families was killed instantly, and police say his murder will certainly be avenged, most likely triggering a round of gang warfare. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Tel Aviv's Old-Fashioned Mob Kingpin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...enemies, but what he meant was that he had no enemies he feared. Israel is a small country, and it was inevitable that a gangster with ambitions like Alperon would step on his rivals' toes. Once before, they had tried to kill him with a car bomb. Another time, police had caught four Belarusan hit men who were shadowing him. His older brother Nissim, 55, has survived nine assassination attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Tel Aviv's Old-Fashioned Mob Kingpin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Matt Luft is an absolute champ, bringing down the 42 bomb from Pizzotti. The first down is marked at the Penn...

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD AT PENN (11/15) | 11/15/2008 | See Source »

Scarborough, Joe •F-bomb is dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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