Ivanka Trump is a Jewish mother. Trump's Jewish daughter

Talmud Berl Lazar.

Ben Schreckinger

Politico, USA

The Chabad of Port Washington Jewish Community Center on Long Island in Manhasset Bay is located in a squat brick building across from a Shell gas station and shopping complex. It is an unremarkable house on an unremarkable street, except for one feature. The shortest routes connecting Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin run through it.

20 years ago, when the Russian president began consolidating his power in the country, he began a project to eradicate the existing structures of Jewish civil society in the country and replace them with a parallel structure loyal to him. And on the other side of the earth, a brash Manhattan developer was trying to get some of the huge flow of capital flowing out of the former Soviet Union in search of stable Western assets (especially real estate) and partners in New York with access to the entire region.

Such aspirations have led the two men, as well as Trump's future son-in-law Jared Kushner, to form a close and overlapping relationship in a small world centered on the international Chabad Hasidic movement, completely unknown to most people.

In 1999, Putin enlisted the support of two of his confidants and oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who then became Chabad's main patrons around the world, and created the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berl Lazar, who is today called "Putin's rabbi."

A few years later, Trump began searching for Russian projects and Russian capital, joining forces with the Bayrock-Sapir company, which was headed by emigrants from the USSR Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater and Tamir Sapir, who maintained close ties to Chabad. The company's projects have been the subject of numerous fraud lawsuits, and a Manhattan apartment complex has been the subject of a criminal investigation.

Meanwhile, ties between Trump and Chabad gradually strengthened and expanded. In 2007, Trump organized the wedding of his daughter Sapir and Leviev's closest aide, which took place at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. A few months after that ceremony, Leviev met with Trump to discuss potential deals in Moscow and then arranged for the new couple's first son to be circumcised at Chabad Judaism's holiest site. Trump attended the ceremony along with Kushner, who later bought a $300 million house from Leviev and married Ivanka Trump. She, in turn, became close friends with Abramovich’s wife Daria Zhukova. Zhukova hosted the power couple in Russia in 2014 and attended Trump's inauguration as their guest.

Thanks to this transatlantic diaspora and some global real estate moguls, Trump Tower and Moscow's Red Square sometimes seem like part of the same tight-knit neighborhood. Now that Trump, from the Oval Office, has expressed his desire to reorient the world order toward better relations with Putin, and the FBI is investigating inappropriate connections between Trump aides and the Kremlin. small world Chabad suddenly took on disproportionate importance.

Trump Jews

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement was founded in 1775 in Lithuania and today has tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of followers. Chabad makes up for its small numbers with enthusiasm. This movement is known as the most life-loving form of Judaism.

Zionist Organization of America President Mort Klein recalls how impressed he was by this Chabad feature. It happened at a wedding. Two tables were occupied by the groom's cousins, Chabad rabbis. They outdid all the other guests. “These guys danced like fire. I thought they were black. But no, they only had black hats,” Klein said, referring to traditional Hasidic headdresses.

Despite its small numbers, Chabad has become the largest Jewish movement in the world. It is present in more than a thousand cities, including places like Kathmandu and Hanoi, where very few Jews live. The movement is known for its "Chabad houses" (Beit Chabad), which operate as community centers and are open to all Jews. “Take any godforsaken city in the world, and there will be a McDonald's restaurant and a Chabad house,” says New York-based Jewish public relations specialist Ronn Torossian.

Chabad adherents differ from other Hasidim in numerous ways in their customs and traditions. Chabad men wear hats instead of fur caps. Many members of this movement consider the leader of this movement, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in 1994, to be their messiah, and some believe that he is still alive. According to Klein, Chabad followers are very good at organizing fundraisers.

By paying serious attention to preaching activities and attracting an increasing number of Jews around the world to Judaism, Chabad provides services to those Jews who are not fully believers.

According to Shmuel Boteach, a prominent New Jersey rabbi and longtime friend of Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, Chabad offers Jews a third path to religious identity. “A Jew has three choices,” he explains. — A Jew can assimilate without maintaining close ties to religion. He may be religious and orthodox. And there is a third opportunity that Chabad gives to people who do not want to follow the path of the Orthodox, but who want to remain within the religious field.”

This third path explains the closeness that Trump has developed with many Chabad enthusiasts and supporters, that is, with those Jews who eschew liberal and Reform Judaism, preferring traditionalism, but are not overly devout.

“It’s not surprising that Trump supporters are associated with Chabad,” Torossian said. — Chabad is a place where strong and persistent Jews feel comfortable. Chabad is a place where no one judges anyone, where unconventional people, not accustomed to living by the rules, feel comfortable.”

Speaking about the Chabad approach, which is less strict than the Orthodox, he concludes: “If you cannot fulfill all the commandments, fulfill those that you can.”

Torossian, who said he is Sater's friend and public relations representative, explained that this balance particularly appeals to Jews from the former Soviet Union, who value a combination of traditional trappings and a relaxed attitude toward observance of customs and rituals. “All Russian Jews go to Chabad,” he said. “Russian Jews are uncomfortable in the reformed synagogue.”

Putin's Jews

As often happens in Putin's Russia, the state began to support Chabad as a result of inter-factional power struggles.

After becoming prime minister in 1999, Putin enlisted the support of Leviev and Abramovich in creating the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. Its goal was to weaken Jewish civil society in Russia and its umbrella organization, the Russian Jewish Congress, led by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, who posed a potential threat to Putin and to President Boris Yeltsin. A year later, Gusinsky was arrested and he was forced to emigrate.

At that time, Russia already had a chief rabbi, Adolf Shaevich, who was recognized by the Russian Jewish Congress. But Abramovich and Leviev put Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar at the head of the organization rivaling the congress. The Kremlin removed Shaevich from its council for religious affairs, and has since recognized Lazar as the chief rabbi of Russia. As a result, two candidates for this post appeared in the country.

The Putin-Chabad alliance benefits from both sides. Anti-Semitism is frowned upon under Putin, and this is an important departure from
centuries-old tradition of discrimination and pogroms. Moreover, the state maintains its own sanctioned version of Jewish identity, calling Jews an integral part of the nation.

Context

As Putin began to consolidate his power in Russia, Lazar began to be derisively called “Putin’s rabbi.” He accompanied the Russian leader on a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem and also attended the opening ceremony of Putin's pet project, the Sochi Olympics, which took place on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. Putin, as a sign of gratitude, ordered the security service not to subject the rabbi to search, as this was a violation of Shabbat rules.

In 2013, under the auspices of Chabad and with Abramovich’s money, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center was opened in Moscow. Putin donated his monthly salary to the project, and the successor to the KGB, the Federal Security Service, offered the museum relevant documents from its archives.

In 2014, Berl Lazar was the only Jewish leader present at the meeting at which Putin made a triumphant announcement about the annexation of Crimea.

But the rabbi had to pay for his loyalty to Putin. After the annexation, he continues to support the Russian dictator, and because of this, he has a rift with Chabad leaders in Ukraine. In addition, for many years the Russian state has refused an American court order to transfer Chabad texts, called the “Schneerson collection,” to the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which is located in Brooklyn. Soon after the opening of the tolerance center, Putin ordered the transfer of this collection to his funds. Thus, Lazar became the custodian of the most valuable library, which his Brooklyn comrades consider to be theirs by right.

If Lazar has any remorse for participating in this internal Chabad dispute, he does not show it. “Challenging authority is not Jewish,” the rabbi said in 2015.

Trump, Bayrock, Sapir

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Trump began searching for projects and investors from the former Soviet Union in the early years of the 21st century, and as a result forged a strong relationship with Bayrock-Sapir.

One of its leaders was Felix Sater, who was once convicted of connections with the mafia.

Sater and another Bayrock employee, Daniel Ridloff, who later went to work directly for the Trump Organization, are members of the Chabad of Port Washington Jewish community. Sater told Politico that he is a board member of Beit Chabad of Port Washington and also serves on the leadership of many Chabad organizations in the United States and abroad, but not in Russia.

The extent of Sater and Trump's ties is controversial. While working at Trump Tower, Sater collaborated with the famed real estate developer on many projects and sought deals for him in the former Soviet Union. In 2006, Sater accompanied Trump's children Ivanka and Donald Jr. on a trip to Moscow in search of potential projects. He worked particularly closely with Ivanka while working on the Trump SoHo project, which includes a hotel and apartment complex in Manhattan. This project was featured in the TV program “The Apprentice” in 2006.

In 2007, it became known that Sater was charged with stock exchange fraud. This did not stop Trump, who in 2010 made Sater a “senior adviser to the Trump Organization.” In 2011, several buyers of Trump SoHo apartments sued Trump and his associates, accusing them of fraud, and New York prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into the sales. But the buyers settled with the company and agreed not to cooperate with the investigation, which was later dropped, according to the New York Times. Two former managers have filed a lawsuit against Bayrock, accusing the firm of tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering, bribery, extortion and deception.

Sater spoke under oath about his close relationship with the Trumps, and Trump himself also stated under oath that he hardly knew Sater and would not be able to pick out his face in a crowd. Some people who worked with Trump during this period, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation from both, ridiculed Trump's testimony, saying that he met frequently with Sater and was in almost constant phone calls with him. One person recalled that Trump and Sater often dined together, including at the now-defunct Kiss & Fly restaurant in Manhattan.

“Trump called Felix in his office every other day. So his words that he doesn’t know him are complete nonsense,” said Sater’s former colleague. “They were constantly in contact, that’s for sure.” They talked on the phone all the time."

In 2014, Sater was named Person of the Year by the Chabad of Port Washington Jewish Community Center. At a ceremony in his honor, Chabad founder Shalom Paltiel recalled how Sater had spilled the beans about being an informant on classified national security matters.

“I recently told Felix that I didn’t believe almost anything he said. It seemed to me that he had seen enough James Bond films and read Tom Clancy’s novels,” Paltiel said at the ceremony. — Everyone who knows Felix knows that he is a master at writing stories. I just didn’t really believe in them.”

But then Paltiel said that several years later he received special permission to accompany Sater to a ceremony at a federal building in Manhattan. According to Paltiel, there, representatives of all American intelligence agencies praised Sater for his secret work and told him “more fantastic, more incredible things than anything he told me.” Video of the event in Sater's honor has been removed from the Port Washington Chabad website, but can be viewed on YouTube.

While preparing this article for publication, I called Paltiel, but he hung up as soon as I introduced myself. I needed to ask him about some of the connections that I learned about during my work. Paltiel not only maintains a relationship with Sater, he is also on friendly terms with “Putin’s rabbi” Lazar. In a short note about meeting him at Schneerson's grave in Queens, Paltiel calls Lazar his "dear friend and mentor."

According to Boteach, this is not surprising because Chabad is such a community where everyone knows everyone. “In the Chabad world, we all went to yeshiva together, we were all ordained together,” Boteach said. “I knew Berel Lazar from my yeshiva days.”

The Chabad House in Port Washington has another devotee from Bayrock. Among the 13 main benefactors of this community is Sater's partner and founder of this company, Tevfik Arif.

Arif is a former Soviet official turned wealthy real estate developer. He owns a mansion in Port Washington, located in a wealthy suburb. But this is a very interesting patron of the local Chabad. Arif has a Muslim name, was born in Kazakhstan, and is a Turkish citizen. Arif is not a Jew, as people who worked with him say. In 2010, he was arrested during a police search in Turkey on a yacht that once belonged to the founder of the modern Turkish state, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. Arif was accused of running an international criminal network that employs underage prostitutes. All charges against him were later dropped.

Its patriarch, the late billionaire Tamir Sapir, was born in Soviet Georgia and came to New York in 1976, where he opened an electronics store in the Flatiron district. According to the New York Times, this store mainly served KGB agents.

Trump called Sapir his “great friend.” In December 2007, he arranged the wedding of Sapir's daughter Zina at Mar-a-Lago. Lionel Richie and the Pussycat Dolls performed there. The groom, Rotem Rosen, worked as the general director of the American branch of Putin oligarch Leviev's holding company Africa Israel.

Five months later, in early June 2008, Zina Sapir and Rosen held a circumcision ceremony for their newborn son. In invitations to this ceremony, Rosen was called Leviev’s “right hand”. By then, Leviev had become Chabad's largest donor worldwide and personally ensured that the circumcision ceremony be held at Schneerson's grave, which Chabad followers consider the most sacred site.

Trump attended the ceremony. And a month earlier, in May 2008, he and Leviev discussed possible real estate construction projects in Moscow, which the Russian media wrote about at that time. A photo taken during the meeting shows Trump and Leviev shaking hands and smiling.

That same year, Sapir, who was actively involved in financing Chabad, traveled with Leviev to Berlin, where they visited Chabad centers.

Jared, IvankaRoman, Dasha

Also present at that newborn circumcision ceremony was Kushner, who, along with his wife Ivanka Trump, has forged his own ties to Putin's Chabad allies. The Kushner family, which considers itself Modern Orthodox, has long been actively involved in charitable activities throughout the Jewish world, including in Chabad institutions. And while studying at Harvard, Kushner took an active part in the work of the university Chabad House. Three days before the presidential election, the Kushner-Trump couple visited Schneerson’s grave, where they prayed for Trump. In January, they bought a house in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood and began attending the nearby Chabad synagogue, which has become their house of worship.

In May 2015, that is, a month before Trump officially entered the presidential race in the Republican primaries, Kushner bought a controlling interest in the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street from Leviev for $295 million.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump also maintain a close relationship with Abramovich's wife, Dasha Zhukova. A prominent businessman, Abramovich, whose net worth is estimated at more than seven billion dollars, owns the British football club Chelsea, and was previously the governor of the Russian province of Chukotka, where he is still revered as a hero. He made his fortune thanks to victory in the post-Soviet “aluminum wars,” during which more than 100 people died trying to seize control of aluminum enterprises. In 2008, Abramovich admitted that he built his business empire by doling out billions of dollars in bribes. His former business partner, the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, having quarreled with Putin, left for New York, where he settled in the Trump International building near Central Park. In 2011, he accused Abramovich of threatening him, blackmailing and intimidating him, filing a lawsuit in a British court. Abramovich won that case.

Abramovich was reportedly the first to recommend Putin to Yeltsin as his successor. In their 2004 biography of Abramovich, British journalists Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins write: “When Putin needed a secret force to move against his enemies from behind the scenes, he could always rely on Abramovich to became a voluntary accomplice for him.” Biographers write that the relationship between the two men was like that of father and son, and report that Abramovich personally interviewed candidates for positions in Putin's first cabinet. According to available information, he gave Putin a $30 million yacht, although Putin himself denies this.

Abramovich's business interests and personal life intersected with Trump's world many times and in a variety of ways.

Researchers at Cornell University produced a report in 2012 saying that Evraz, partly owned by Abramovich, had entered into a series of contracts under which it would supply 40% of the steel needed to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which was completed after years of delays in March. Trump approved. And in 2006, Abramovich bought a large stake in the Russian oil company Rosneft, which is now being carefully scrutinized for possible collusion between Trump and Russia. Trump and the Kremlin have dismissed as "fake news" a dossier that claims the recent sale of Rosneft shares is part of a scheme to ease sanctions on Russia.

Meanwhile, Abramovich’s wife Zhukov has long moved in the same social circles as Kushner and Ivanka Trump. She became a friend and business partner of Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife Wendi Deng, who has long been friends with Ivanka. Zhukova also became friends with Kushner’s brother Josh’s longtime friend Karlie Kloss.

Gradually, Zhukova became close to Jared and Ivanka. In February 2014, a month before the illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, Trump's Ivanka posted a photo on Instagram of herself sitting over a bottle of wine with Zhukova and Wendy Deng. Under the photo is the caption: “Thank you [Zhukova] for the unforgettable four days in Russia!” There have recently been rumors about Deng that she is dating Putin, although Wendy herself denies this. From other photographs it becomes clear that Kushner was also in Russia at that time.

Last summer, Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Zhukova and Deng shared a box at the US Open. In January, Zhukova attended Trump's inauguration as Ivanka's guest.

On March 14, a journalist for The Daily Mail spotted Josh Kushner and Zhukova having dinner together at a New York restaurant. As this publication wrote, Josh Kushner “hid his face and quickly left the establishment with Dasha.”

A week later, while Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were vacationing in Aspen with her two brothers and their families, Abramovich's plane flew from Moscow to Denver, according to air traffic control. Abramovich owns two properties in Aspen.

Abramovich's spokesman declined to comment on the Colorado coincidence. The White House referred questions about the couple's vacation to Ivanka Trump's personal press secretary. Spokeswoman Risa Heller indicated she would answer questions about the men's vacation in Colorado and their recent contacts, but did not do so.

President Trump is reportedly seeking security clearances for Kushner and Ivanka as they play increasingly important roles in the White House. It would be very difficult for anyone else who has a close personal relationship with the family of a top Putin confidant to gain such clearance, senior intelligence officials said, but political pressure would likely prevail over security considerations.

“Yes, such ties to Russia should matter to security agencies conducting inspections,” said Steve Hall, a former CIA station chief in Moscow. “The question is whether they will pay attention.”

"I don't think the Trump family will have any problems getting security clearance unless a polygraph is used," said Milt Bearden, former head of the CIA's Eastern European division. “It’s absolutely crazy, but there won’t be any problems.”

While Washington is abuzz with rumors of an FBI investigation into Trump's associates' contacts with Putin's Kremlin, the groups and organizations linking them remain the subject of intense scrutiny and scrutiny.

The New York Times reported in March that Lazar met last summer with the Trump administration's special envoy for foreign affairs, Jason Greenblatt, then a lawyer for the Trump Organization. Both described the meeting as Greenblatt's normal outreach to Jewish leaders and said they discussed problems with Russian society and anti-Semitism. The meeting was organized by New York public relations specialist Joshua Nass, and Lazar said he did not discuss it with Russian authorities.

In late January, Sater met with Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen to discuss a proposal for a peace deal in Ukraine that would end
There would be an end to American sanctions against Russia. Cohen then reported the meeting to former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Cohen himself made various comments about this episode.

According to one Republican Jew, Cohen often comes to the Chabad community center on Fifth Avenue, which is a dozen blocks from Trump Tower and six blocks from Cohen's office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Cohen refuted this claim, saying, "I have never been to a Chabad house, and I have never been to a Chabad house in New York." He then said that the last time he was in a Chabad house was more than 15 years ago when he attended a circumcision ceremony. He said he attended a Chabad-related event on March 16 at a Newark hotel in honor of US Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin. That dinner was hosted by the Chabad Rabbinical College of America.

To those unfamiliar with Russian politics, the world of Trump, and Hasidic Judaism, all these connections with Chabad seem completely incomprehensible. And some just shrug their shoulders indifferently.

“The interconnectedness of the Jewish world through Chabad is not a surprise, since Chabad is one of the major Jewish players,” Boteach said. — I would add that the world of New York real estate is also quite small

IN Plastic. Ivanka Trump.
How a Jewish woman turned into a Slav

Plastic surgery: Ivanka Trump

Ivanka Trump: height 180 cm, weight 64 kg, date of birth 10/30/1981.

Type: small chin + large cheeks + hooked nose. "Hamster".

There are certain types of faces that may look cute or "interesting" to the casual observer. For example, chubby cheeks combined with a small chin create a certain resemblance to a hamster. But those with this set of traits don’t want to be “nice” at all. A man usually strives to look courageous, a woman - graceful.

Ivanka Trump received from nature exactly this set of features: wide cheekbones, plump cheeks and an underdeveloped chin, complete with a not-so-ideal nose. But at the same time she is tall (1.80 m), slender and feminine.

A too small chin always brings a “but” to your appearance. And, perhaps, no other plastic surgery beautifies the face as much as correcting this nuance. True, the owners of this problem themselves often do not notice it, attributing the disharmony in appearance to the nose (usually, on the contrary, it is very prominent, especially against the backdrop of the underdeveloped lower part of the face). But rhinoplasty alone will not solve the problem.

In plastic surgery, there is a fine line between bringing your face to perfection (as Angelina Jolie did, for example) and sculpting a different, new face (as Heidi Montag did). Ivanka Trump has done at least three plastic surgery and got a balanced result.

So for the face, it was a rhinoplasty (the camera is known to love small, dainty noses, and Ivanka has worked as a model) and a chin augmentation.

The baby plumpness, especially noticeable against the backdrop of a small chin, is gone, which was also a plus in Ivanka’s case.

By the way, an increase in the chin often entails a decrease in the lower lip - the tissue is pulled onto the implant. But usually this only decorates, since a large lower lip, complete with a too small chin, looks somewhat saggy.

At the end of 2006, Ivanka had her breasts enlarged, apparently in a desire to balance out her wide hips and shoulders.

Moreover, the breasts were not small to begin with:

And for my taste, the increase only made the figure heavier.

But breasts look different in different dresses.

However, it is not only the nose, cheeks or chin that shape the face. Even after the most successful operation, you can become just one of many, an ordinary pretty girl. But Ivanka Trump wasn't just born under a lucky star and with a silver spoon in her mouth. She is smart, educated and achieved impressive heights in business not only with the help of her father, but also with the help of hard work without days off. Clever, beautiful and heiress, she is “far from Paris Hilton,” which she once indignantly commented on in an interview. So, despite the fact that a trained eye will detect plastic surgery (the chin is made to be 5+, but you can see the rhinoceros), Ivanka’s appearance has not lost its individuality.

From a “hamster” to a real princess.

Tags: Ivanka Trump nose job, breast augmentation, chin surgery

The transformation of a Yankee with German-Scottish roots into a Jew was clearly described on the website of the Global Jewish Online Center by publicist Peter Lukimson.

Proper grandchildren

"Now in in social networks Serious battles broke out between the Israelis and the Americans, who different languages continue to discuss the results of the US elections and whether they are good for Jews. Among representatives of the left camp, who do not call Trump anything other than a fascist, there is obvious despondency - for the third month they have been crying for Barack Obama as for their own brother. However, the majority of Israelis are again in obvious euphoria, recalling the old saying: “A Jew is not the one whose father is Jewish, but the one whose grandchildren are Jews.” From their point of view, it turns out that for the first time a Jew won the US elections. Now this president will move the American embassy to Jerusalem in no time, will not interfere with the expansion of Jewish settlements, and then - who knows! – will support the annexation of Judea and Samaria!”

Necessary clarification about grandchildren. Ivanka, Trump’s daughter from his first wife, Czech model Ivana, married Jared Kushner in 2009. His parents, Orthodox Jews, very influential in the Jewish community of New York, were against this marriage. They could not allow their future grandchildren to stop being Jewish. But love won. Before the wedding, Ivanka converted to Judaism, performed a complex ritual of converting a non-Jew into a Jew - conversion, and received the ancient Hebrew name Yael (“mountain goat”). The couple belongs to Orthodox Judaism and observes its laws more strictly than most young American Jews. Ivanka herself is an activist of the Chabad women's movement. They already have three children - Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James Kushner.

So, with the Jewish grandchildren, everything is in order for the new US President.

Ivanka and Jared were part of the leadership of his campaign headquarters and played a big role in the victory over Hillary Clinton. After all, it was solely thanks to them that Trump began to enjoy the support of the US Jewish community. In the election, more than 90% of the very influential Hasidic community voted for him, including in New York, which overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. Although before his daughter’s marriage there were big complaints against the billionaire regarding anti-Semitism.

When the media before the election called one of the Republican candidate's Twitter posts “anti-Semitic,” Kushner openly defended his father-in-law: “Donald Trump is not a racist or an anti-Semite. I was convinced of this on personal experience, caring for his daughter." And he reminded me of his Jewish grandmother, who fled from the ghetto of the Belarusian town of Novogrudok, occupied by the Nazis, to the partisans. In the partisan detachment she met her grandfather Jared.

Jared is now a senior aide to his father-in-law, the President of the United States. Observers note that he has become a vehicle for Trump's plans in the Middle East. In any case, he had a hand in the appointment of his longtime acquaintance David Friedman as the new US Ambassador to Israel.

UNJUSTIFIED DELIGHTS

But let’s return to Peter Lyukimson’s article “The Great Trumpiad.” It gives reason to think not only for Israelis, but also for us in Russia.

“I am equally unacceptable both sobs for Obama and delight (I almost wrote “pig squeals”) about Donald Trump. However, the latter can still be understood. There will still be no worse American president for Israel than Barack Obama. He took an openly anti-Israeli, and, if you call a spade a spade, an anti-Semitic position. He became the first American president who not only violated the agreement with Israel to protect its interests, but also prepared and passed through the UN Security Council one of the most dangerous anti-Israeli resolutions. And Obama's latest decision was to transfer $221 million to the Palestinians - another blow to Israel that encourages opponents of the Jewish state. (Trump managed to “freeze” this tranche, allocated by the outgoing US President for “support of democratic reforms and humanitarian assistance” to Palestine. - Author.) So, when Barack Obama stated that if Iran gets an atomic bomb, then it should say his name - he wasn't kidding. Trump will definitely not be worse for Israel than Obama. And this is already good once.

However, regarding the hopes placed on him, I would not rush here - my deja vu never deceives me. First, read the biography of Donald Trump, and you will understand how versatile this man is, how balanced and thoughtful all his decisions are. All his extravagance is nothing more than a mask for fans of his TV show.

Therefore, you shouldn’t expect any stunning steps either towards Israel or towards Russia from Trump, if only so as not to be disappointed later. Most likely, the US Embassy will not be moved to Jerusalem. As well as the supported annexation of Judea and Samaria and everything else. But if Trump returns American support to Israel at the UN, gives the opportunity to calmly develop existing Jewish settlements, and also reconsiders the decision according to which those born in Jerusalem are not considered in the United States to be born in Israel, this will not be so little.”

The skepticism of the wise Lukimson begins to be justified.

On February 15, Trump’s first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu took place in Washington. Jared Kushner also took part in the negotiations. Problems of bilateral relations, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iranian nuclear threat, and the fight against terrorism were touched upon. And although Netanyahu said at a joint press conference that “a new day has begun” in relations between the United States and Israel, the administration of the new president made it clear: although Trump agrees to help his Middle Eastern partner, but not on all points, Tatyana Karasova commented on the results of the visit, head Department of the Israel Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It seems that one should not expect too much from Trump - he is aware that his pro-Israeli sympathies have objective limitations.

And among Russian politicians, who recently, like the Israelis, also wildly rejoiced at Trump’s victory, disappointment with Donald is setting in. The latest statements by the new US President and his inner circle towards Russia are very upsetting. And are they caused only by objective restrictions on the part of the US Congress?

LET'S WATCH THE MOVIE TO THE END

However, Trump himself will also have a hard time, Lukimson writes. They won't leave him alone. “We still have high-profile journalistic investigations and attempts to arrange a new Watergate ahead of us.” Well, of course, no one will allow Trump what was allowed to Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

Before labeling Trump and dogs, it is better to just watch this film to the end and only then judge how good or bad this American president was for the world and for the Jews. The author of the script and he is also the main director of this film, judging by his previous productions, has a good sense of humor and unpredictable imagination. So there are still a lot of exciting twists ahead, and perhaps the main villain will not be the one you first thought.”

There is no doubt about anything, let alone the fascinating plot twists. Trump and his team have been their people in Hollywood for many years. Will watch. What remains to be done...

Petr Efimovich LYUKIMSON is an Israeli Russian-speaking writer and journalist. Born in 1963 in Ukraine, he lived in Baku from early childhood. Since 1991 - in Israel. He was the editor-in-chief of Russian Israeli. Now he is deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Novosti Nedeli. He published 20 books in Russia. Six of them are in the popular ZhZL series: “Moses”, “Saladin”, “Freud”, “King David”, “King Herod”, “King Solomon”. As he himself jokes, everything is on the same topic: Jews, Jews and once again Jews.