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...those arrested was a Brooklyn man, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who was charged with trading in human organs. In Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community this week, Rosenbaum, who claimed to be a real estate dealer, was described as a macher, or fixer, who assisted renal patients in finding appropriate medical treatment in the U.S. According to the official complaint, however, Rosenbaum planned to give an Israeli donor $10,000 and then charge the client who requested the kidney $160,000. The payment would be laundered through what Rosenbaum described first as a "congregation," then as a charity. According to published reports...
...probe into corruption in New Jersey ended in the arrests of 44 people, including two mayors, a prominent real-estate developer and several rabbis. But amid the bribery and money-laundering allegations, the element of the sweeping sting that grabbed the most attention was the accusation that Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a New York City resident, had tried to orchestrate the sale of a human kidney for $160,000. The black-market kidney trade is a growing problem - the World Health Organization estimates that organ-trafficking accounts for 5% to 10% of all kidney transplants worldwide. So how do kidney sales...
...Died. Izhak Ben-Zvi, 78, second President of Israel, an ascetic, self-effacing Russian Jew who settled in Palestine in 1907 and helped form Has homer (The Guard), tiny predecessor of the pre-independence Zionist armies, was banished by Turkish authorities in 1915 with David Ben-Gurion, but returned in 1918 as a private in the invading British army's Jewish legion to continue his agitation for a Jewish state, and in 1952 accepted the largely ceremonial office of President, following Chaim Weizmann's death; of cancer; in Jerusalem...
...Jews, his appeal of the verdict was considered for nine weeks by the Israeli Supreme Court, and then denied, with the remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...
...fate, as decreed by the court: death by hanging. Appeals to the Israeli Supreme Court and to President Izhak Ben-Zvi will postpone the almost certain execution for several months. Until then, Eichmann will be held in a special cell on the top floor of the British-built Teggart Fortress in Ramleh. Meanwhile, a British reporter had sought out Mrs. Veronika Eichmann, now living in seclusion in Germany. Affirming her husband's innocence, Mrs. Eichmann was "absolutely sure" he would return home. Then, almost as an afterthought, she added: "We never discussed his work...