American tycoon Warren Buffett invested $4 billion in an Israeli manufacturing firm. In what Israeli media hailed as the “deal of the decade,” Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway corporation over the weekend bought an 80 percent interest in Iscar, an international metalworks consortium based in Tefen, Israel.
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