Associates pointed out that Mr Ofer had longstanding personal and business ties in Britain.
Shelly Yachimovich, leader of the left-wing Labour party, singled out Mr Ofer for criticism in her campaign.
Ofer is bullish on America as a place with a great business culture.
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Ultimately, what Ofer might be investing in, at this point, is a compromise.
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Separately, it also signed a deal with the Ofer Group, an Israeli company that Bricklin had introduced to Chery executives.
Alex and Ofer assembled a small team and literally got in a room and thought about how to solve the problem.
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It seems strange that, in the midst of this offensive, Dagan would divert his attention to the Ofer Brothers Shipping woes.
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Israeli billionaire and shipping magnate Sammy Ofer died in his Tel Aviv home on Thursday night, he was 89 years old.
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On May 24 the US state department identified the Ofer Brothers Group among seven companies that allegedly violated the Iran Sanctions Act.
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Ofer subsidiaries took the place of Visionary Vehicles in the plan to import Chery vehicles to North America, with Chery retaining distribution rights.
Thornley lasted fewer than three months and in January Better Place chairman and Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer took over some of the CEO duties.
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"Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the coalition will need to bring these things, " Ofer Shelah, a senior member of the party, told Israeli Army Radio.
Soon after, he and his brother founded the Ofer Brothers Group.
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Second, it strikes me as odd that former Mossad chief Meir Dagan felt compelled to issue an impassioned defense of the Ofer Brothers Shipping company.
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You mention Micky Erison and Sammy and Yuli Ofer--the people of the Old Economy in Israel--but you don't mention Shwed, a billionaire of the New Economy.
It is impossible to believe that if the Ofer Brothers subsidiary ships were used for intelligence operations in Iran that the US did not know about it.
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Listening to Ofer Lahav talk about dark energy I'm struck that this is what it must have been like to hear Isaac Newton describe gravity in the 1680s.
Another hearing for their case is expected at Ofer military court on 6 March but their lawyer says they have been told their detention will not be extended further.
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Mahmoud Zawahreh, a popular committee activist who was participating in the protest outside Ofer military prison, said he was surprised by the lack of international opposition to the Israeli detention policies.
To help think outside the box Ofer worked with Israeli-born Avery More to secure an initial round of venture capital and later added to the mix Alex Eleftheriadis, a Greek-born professor, along with other experts.
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"Vidyo and HP will offer a set of solutions that bring together the best aspects in high-end videoconferencing whether at the desktop, in conference rooms or in Halo studios, " said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and chief executive officer, Vidyo.
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The point, according to Professor Ofer Lahav, who's the lead investigator for the UK consortium involved in the Dark Energy Survey, is that the nature of all these phenomena is heavily influenced by the properties of dark energy.
"Under Shai's leadership, we've successfully achieved our goals in the first chapter of Better Place, and we owe Shai our gratitude for turning his powerful vision into a reality, " said Idan Ofer, Chairman of the Better Place Board of Directors.
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