Israel’s Corporate Defenders Grow Louder
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“You have to consider whether the people signing these petitions are 18 years old and very impressionable and don’t know what they are talking about,” Neal Berger, the president of Eagle’s View Capital Management, told The Times. It wants to make big changes including spinning out News Corp.’s digital real estate arm, but the Murdochs’ 40 percent voting stake in the company is a significant hurdle. Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of the chemicals conglomerate Ineos, is negotiating to invest in the English soccer club after a rival bidder, a Qatari sheikh, dropped out, according to The Athletic. Her movie comes at a tough time for theaters, given that many blockbusters have been delayed; Swift herself is expected to have taken home close to $55 million from this weekend’s sales, taking a higher-than-usual percentage of box office revenues. “The fact that we’re sitting with $91 million in the bank today is really an extraordinary advantage,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul and co-chair of Biden’s re-election campaign, told The Times.