A major donor to Israel’s Ben-Gurion University was arrested for smuggling fish into the United States. A front-page report in South Africa’s Cape Times newspaper on Arnold Bengis, arrested Aug. 6 in New York on charges including smuggling South African lobster and toothfish into the United States, highlighted Bengis’ ties to Israel.
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