Arcadi Gaydamak's Empire and Prison
Written byTimes Magazine
Arcadi was born in 1952 in Moscow, the capital of the USSR. At the age of 20, Gaydamak was one of the first Jews to immigrate to Israel from Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union and got Israeli citizenship. He lived on Kibbutz Beit HaShita, and studied Hebrew at an ulpan. He said he initially intended to serve withinside the Israeli Army, but ended up shifting to France, where he opened a translation bureau.
Arcadi, a former mayoral candidate in Jerusalem in 2008 who additionally played a key position aiding Israelis throughout conflicts in northern and southern Israel throughout conflicts in the mid-2000s, is now in the United Arab Emirates helping a new initiative. The once in a while controversial Russian-born businessman, speaks out approximately his support for the Abraham Accords and of coexistence in Dubai.
He currently attended an inaugural occasion for a Jewish nursery and education center known as Mini Miracles when the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak was in Dubai.
In an interview he said that this anciental re-establishment of relations among Jews and Muslims withinside the region has been supported through religious leaders of the two “fraternal peoples, Arabs and Jews.” He said that during his view “the huge majority of population of Muslim nations and especially the people of the UAE had been always friendly and tolerant to all the representatives of all countries and especially to Jews, as the historical background of Muslim and Jews is the same.”
Arcadi Gaydamak served time in prison in France in 2015 for tax fraud in a case that stretched returned to 1990s arms offers in Angola. He was launched in 2016, according to Le Parisien.
In the UAE, for reasons of financial prosperity, there are many human beings from different nations who came to stay in the area, he says. This is especially true for human beings working in modern sectors of the economy, which include finance, insurance, communications. “They are education, young and successful people.”
His daughter and son-in-law are some of the ones who've made their home withinside the UAE. Alec Sellem, his son-in-law, has spearheaded a brand Jewish education center. Arcadi Gaydamak says that the young couple “understood the need to establish a excessive-standard education centre for children. That centre not only correspondes to the high standard of production and system but also can be in itself the promoting of the improvement of the relationship between religions and cultures.”
This educational center is known as Mini Miracles and can be a community centre, controlled through the Jewish community. It can be available to people with no distinction of religion or nationality, he says. Education can be in Arabic, Hebrew, English and different languages. “Young families of the expat groups vitally need this type of educational centre.” It is example of peace he says. It illustrates the tolerance that Muslims are actually showing to Jews.
Gaydamak is supportive of the Abraham Accords. “The conflict between Israel and Arab nations undeniably was a totally negative issue for the whole world. It is the most essential political achievement of the century…It is not simply another artificial decision of politicians.”
Gaydamak says that the current peace deal was made possible through US President Donald Trump, Russia President Vladimir Putin, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.” Gaydamak’s support for the new middle is a part a much wider more public celebration of Jewish life withinside the UAE that has taken place withinside the last weeks through the lead-up to Hanukkah and after.
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