24 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2019
Jews in the D
Unusual Loan
Detroiter’
s funds to help pay back
improper gift toward Netanyahu’
s
legal defense.
I
srael Attorney General
Avichai
Mandelblit
announced Sept.
13 that he would
allow Prime
Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to
receive a loan from
Spencer Partrich,
a Detroit-area real
estate developer and long-
time friend, to help fund his
legal defense.
The Times of Israel (TOI)
reported that the attorney
general’
s announcement of
Partrich’
s loan not consti-
tuting a conflict of interest
followed a recommenda-
tion by State Comptroller
Matanyahu Englman to
approve Netanyahu’
s request
for funding. TOI added that
the prime minister had been
seeking funds from friends
to help defray the costs of
three criminal cases pending
against him.
Partrich is perhaps best
known for his ownership
of the photo collection
of Hungarian-born Paul
Goldman. Goldman cap-
tured thousands of images
of Israel, spanning from
1943 to 1961, that showed
the country in its infancy.
Included in Partrich’
s col-
lection is the icon-
ic photo of Prime
Minister David Ben-
Gurion doing a head
stand on the beach in
1957 — a character-
ized model of it cur-
rently stands on the
Tel Aviv beachfront.
Partrich has
been long associated
with Jewish causes in the
Detroit metropolitan area,
including Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah, Jewish Hospice &
Chaplaincy Network and
Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces. His name is current-
ly on the auditorium of the
Wayne State University Law
School.
The Times of Israel report-
ed that a portion of the
proceeds from Partrich
would go toward paying
back $300,000 Netanyahu
received from American
businessman Nathan
Milikowsky, which the
Permits Committee of the
State Comptroller’
s Office
said he must return.
The attorney general
had previously announced
that he intended to indict
Netanyahu in the above-ref-
erenced cases.
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