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Charles Bronfman had been co-chairman of Seagrams, until its merger with Vivendi. He is today chairman of Koor Industries Ltd., which is a high-tech holding company at the heart of the Israeli military-industrial complex. He is ... chairman of Claridge-Israel, Inc., which took over Bank Hapolim, when the Israeli government privatized it. This deal was brokered by Ted Arison, an Israeli who, in the United States, built the Carnival Cruise Lines into a billion-dollar business. Arison got his financing to start Carnival from Meshulim Riklis, one of junk-bond manipulator Michael Milken's major clients, and a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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During a news conference in 1996, when original team owner Charles Bronfman announced he was selling the Expos, he took advantage of the occasion to laud McHale's contribution. Bronfman pointed to a tall, elegant man at the back of the hall and said: "There's the man." Bronfman added: "God bless you, John McHale. John McHale is the man who made this whole thing work." McHale was the chief aide to baseball commissioner William Eckert before leaving that job in 1968, the year before the National League expanded to 12 teams, to become the Expos' first president and chief executive officer. The task of starting up the first major-league franchise outside the United States was enormous.
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Charles Bronfman received the Fund's Distinguished Community Service Award. for the bold and visionary initiative made possible by his $12.5 million leadership gift, creating the new Institute for Personalized Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Its work is intended to transform the traditional “one-size-fits-all” model of medicine into personalized medicine—a system that matches care to an individual's unique set of genes—hailed by many as potentially the most important scientific development of the 21st century.
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Fisher amassed his fortune as a bagman for the "Purple Gang" that smuggled Sam Bronfman's booze from Canada into the speakeasies of the Midwest. Fisher made his "legitimate" fortune in the oil retail business, through Keystone Oil, Aurora Oil, and Marathon Oil. Fisher later became chairman of United Brands (a.k.a. United Fruit), a firm accused of major narcotics smuggling from South America.
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Bronfman acknowledged the great difficulty in implementing his proposed reform. "Each of these organizations, and my heart goes out to them, have their own bureaucracy," said Bronfman. "To [turn] that battleship around and entice them to suddenly do things that are dramatically different" would be very hard.
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The winner will be awarded two years to develop his or her idea as the Charles R. Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation at Brandeis. Competitive salary, benefits, and research assistance will be awarded to the winner of the competition.
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