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...And Avi Shlaim argued that, in the 1948 war, Israel did not stand alone against stronger Arab armies — but had the collusion of Jordan and the military upper-hand....
...Other ministers have hinted at how the government’s thinking is evolving, with agriculture minister Avi Dichter on Thursday saying Israel would enforce a buffer zone within the Gaza Strip once the war was...
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...Well, not even Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has endorsed the Wellingborough candidate, as Financial Times columnist Henry Mance notes in his characteristically droll look at the polls....
...The psychological damage done when he picks up a bottle again and sleeps with Hedda destroys not just the character but the man himself (Avi Nash depicts him as desolately vulnerable)....
...In a similar vein, before Hamas launched its October 7 attack, Avi Issacharoff, co-creator of Israel’s hit television thriller Fauda, rejected a possible plotline for one episode in which Hamas fighters...
...While John Henry’s Fenway Sports Group had considered parting ways with Liverpool, the US businessman called off the sale this week. Can Sheikh Jassim or Sir Jim convince the Glazers to sell up?...
...Jim Parsons plays the vicious star-maker agent Henry Willson with a startlingly cold venom....
...His ascent as a public intellectual dated from his friendship, starting in the 1970s, with Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, founding father of what would later be called neoconservatism....
...Henry Birch, Rank’s chief executive, is on the shortlist to replace Mr Henderson and previously ran William Hill’s online operations....
...Under their plan, Rank chief executive Henry Birch would take the top role at the newly formed company....
...Kohlberg, who has died aged 90, was from its 1976 inception the “first K” in front of Henry Kravis and George Roberts at what would become the fearsome force known as KKR....
...“For Avis to jump to the front of that game . . . that’s very powerful.”...
...“We had to persuade the world that Avis represented a real, credible alternative to the Hertz deal,” says Mr Fox at Kirkland & Ellis, who advised Avis on the deal....
...Soon afterwards, Avis Rent-A-Car entered the market with a club called Urbigo....
...For a man trying to address the flagging share price of the $17bn company he commands by breaking it into four pieces, Henry Silverman looks remarkably unfazed by the scale of the task....
...In mid-2006, the tax-free plan would spin off to Cendant’s shareholders 100 per cent of the equity in the four companies, whose brands include Century 21 real estate, Days Inn, Avis and Budget rental cars...
...But many, including “some pretty powerful names”, according to Henry Avis-Vieira of WesBruin Capital, are simply betting on the inevitable: mortality....
...“We try harder” [the Avis slogan] is a good guiding star for a company that wants to be the number one in the market....
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