Tel Aviv – An Israeli activist against what he regards as corruption filmed himself accosting Sheldon Adelson in Tel Aviv, telling him “Asshole, you live too long.”
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Barak Cohen, a left-wing lawyer who was suspended by the Israeli bar association in 2017 for harassing banking executives, posted the encounter on Twitter. Adelson is a Jewish casino magnate and major donor to conservative causes in the United States and Israel.
Eli Bitan, a journalist for the state-owned Israel Broadcasting Corp., or Kan, and writer for Makor Rishon appeared to applaud Cohen in a comment on Twitter.
“Barak, I love you!” Bitan wrote.
Many Twitter users condemned Cohen’s behavior.
“You are a contemptuous person,” Moshe Bagad wrote. “Even in disagreement, such language is inappropriate.
In the video, Cohen is seen telling the camera in Hebrew: “God save us from Sheldon Adelson, then we would all be equal.”
Adelson is seen in a mobility scooter in the background flanked by two men and another younger man, who appears to be a body guard. Cohen then shouts the same sentence in English at Adelson’s direction, prompting the younger man to walk slowly in his direction.
“Stop interrupt in our lives,” Cohen shouts in broken English. “You know what is maniac? You are maniac.” In Hebrew, the word is equivalent to “asshole” in English.
“You are Netanyahu,” added Cohen, whose tweet with the video was titled “Sheldon, You live too long, ya maniak.”
When the younger man touches Cohen, the heckler tells him to stop touching him. The younger man then asks Cohen: “Be respectful of an elderly person.” Cohen replies: “He’s destroying our lives. Hand off. You hit, you murder. Hands off.” He continues to curse Adelson, adding “You live too long.”
Cohen wrote on Twitter: “Netanyahu’s pimp, Sheldon who-needs-democracy Adelson was added of my archive of dialogues with thieves, corrupt people and crooks.”
Adelson owns the conservative Israel Hayom newspaper, which critics claim is not critical enough of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Maybe you should read what you are posting before you post it.
Will yamsar condemn him?
typical DIB
No wonder he was thrown out of the Israeli Bar Association, This meshugenner is what he screams at Mr. Adelson.
He seems to be a silly man. Well, really both seem to be silly men.
Why didn’t Adelson’s bodyguards, beat the crap out of that Israeli heckler?
There are “fine people on both sides”
Why wasn’t he arrested?
Typical left !!!