After finishing his Army service, he studied law at Hebrew University and met Gilat.

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Outside of the REIT sector, the M100 plowed new money into Gilat Satellite Networks.

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Through its Spacenet and Spacenet Rural Communications subsidiaries, Israel-based Gilat provides telephone and Internet service in the U.S. and Latin America.

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But customers of Gilat Satellite Networks of Israel are already buying fixed phones tied to geostationary satellites (which hover 38, 000 kilometers above the earth, versus 1, 350 kilometers for Globalstar).

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Gilat, meanwhile, was working as a pastry chef.

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