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...Irving Moskowitz is no household name. Even in Miami Beach, where the 69-year-old doctor lives most of the time, he is barely known, except perhaps as the husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...
...last week Moskowitz was boldly demonstrating what a mess a fistful of dollars, strategically spent, can make of Arab-Israeli relations. It was his foundation's bingo-parlor proceeds that financed the Jewish zealots who set up house in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, nearly provoking violent confrontation with the Palestinians and casting more blight over the peace process. It was not the first time his philanthropy had set off seismic reverberations. His money helped prompt the opening of a new exit to an archaeological tunnel in East Jerusalem a year ago that sparked a bloody three...
...those on Israel's far right who have benefited from his dollars, Moskowitz is a hero dedicated to restoring all the biblical land of Israel to Jewish possession. He has called the 1993 Oslo peace accords part of a "slide toward concessions, surrender and Israeli suicide" that he is determined to stop. But to many other Israelis he is a meddling, unwelcome outsider, hurling matches, as one local commentator put it, into the Israeli-Palestinian tinderbox, while living safely himself in the U.S. And to the Palestinians, he is one more example of why their hopes for a homeland...
...soft-spoken Moskowitz does not seem to care, as he determinedly follows his own conscience. One of 12 children of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York City and moved as a child to Milwaukee, Wis. His intense Zionism grew out of immense loss: by his count, 120 of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. After earning a medical degree, he migrated to California, where he got into the business of buying and building small private hospitals, then selling them to large conglomerates...
...wealthy enough to start the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation, which he has used ever since to funnel grants to groups dedicated to expanding Jewish settlements in the territories occupied by Israel after the 1967 war. His donations rose sharply after 1988, when officials in Hawaiian Gardens asked his foundation to take over a failing bingo hall that was a crucial source of local tax revenue. Within three years, the take of the nonprofit gaming operation had jumped to $33 million a year. Some of the proceeds went into city coffers and to charities, but much more made...