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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