A business headed by a fervently Orthodox man, Lev Levayev, plans to purchase Gottex, an Israeli swimsuit company known for its daring bikini designs. Levayev was recently embroiled in a dispute over whether a movie theater in a mall built by his company would be open on the Sabbath.
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