"The Great Jewish Oligarchs' Escape": Russian Oligarchs Flee To Israel In Bid To Dodge Sanctions"

Russian-Jewish oligarchs have been fleeing to Israel en masse over the past few weeks in a last minute effort to dodge US and EU sanctions, according to Israeli media reports.

Russian Oligarch—Roman Abramovich's private jet landed in Israel 8 hours ago.

Israel's Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, told US to exclude Abramovich from sanctions because ”it would hurt donations.”

Yad Vashem says Abramovich just made a VERY 'generous' eight-figure donation. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/7r6Eivrp9R

— Arctic Friend (@FriendEden100) March 14, 2022

Israel avoids sanctioning oligarchs, 14 private jets arrive from Russia.
Putin pal Roman Abramovich's Jet is on its way to Israel. He donated $100 Million to Elad, a settler org responsible for ethnically cleansing 1000s of Palestinians.
Netanyahu himself gave him 🇮🇱 citizenship. pic.twitter.com/boW6ipJtzG

— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) March 13, 2022

Oligarchs move to Israel. No tax for ten years. And an agreement between Israeli and Russian secret services that they don’t assassinate on each other’s territory https://t.co/8eWFpwOzNt

— Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) March 12, 2022

As Ukraine war rages and the West tightens the screws on Russian oligarchs, many of them look to Israel to escapehttps://t.co/TrchJBE6as

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 11, 2022

From Haaretz, "The Great Jewish Oligarchs' Escape: 'The Ground Is Trembling. They Will Stream Into Israel'":
As Ukraine war rages and the West tightens the screws on Russian oligarchs, many of them look to Israel to escape ■ Some hold Israeli citizenship, exactly for these kinds of circumstances ■ Billionaires will benefit from Israeli law, allowing them to hide sources of income for a 10-year period

[...] Israel is not obligated to any Western recommendations and has not announced restrictions of any sort on Russian businesses – and in the meantime, private jets from Russia have continued to land at Ben-Gurion Airport. One jet owned by Roman Abramovich landed at Ben-Gurion on the day after Russia’s invasion began...

Late last month, it was revealed on Israel’s Channel 12 that Yad Vashem had approached the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, with a request that sanctions not be imposed on Abramovich. This news follows another bit of fresh information: that the oligarch has made a contribution to the museum amounting to tens of millions of dollars. “These contributions are the buying of connections – it is precisely for these events that the sanctions are happening now,” says Bronfman.

Another oligarch considered close to Putin and who contributes to Yad Vashem is the president of the0 European Jewish Congress, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor. Kantor’s wealth was amassed following the breakup of the Soviet Union, thanks to his taking over of the extensive fertilizer industry. He has a controlling interest in Acron Group, which is traded on the London and Russian exchanges. Its share prices have been sharply down this month. Kantor is the head of a body called the World Holocaust Forum that underwrote the events marking 75 years since the end of World War II, which were held at Yad Vashem in January 2020. At the central event, Putin generated a public scandal by making incorrect statements that supported his own historical narrative of the war. Film clips with incorrect data were displayed on the screen, and it was unclear who was behind them. Yad Vashem Museum subsequently issued an official apology.
The US House and Senate just voted to give Israel another billion taxpayer dollars in addition to the nearly $40 billion they previously agreed to give them over the next decade.

Another $1 billion of US taxpayers' money goes to Israel; aren't you tired of paying taxes for roads, infrastructure, health, education, etc. only to see a significant portion go to Israel or US wars for Israel?? https://t.co/B8Pbai0cyy

— Cynthia McKinney PhD (@cynthiamckinney) March 12, 2022