Hezbollah called Jewish businessman Ronald Lauder a “fanatic Zionist.” The criticism came after Lebanon allowed the Jewish leader’s company, Estee Lauder, to open an office in Beirut, according to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot. Lauder, the head of the Jewish National Fund, recently stepped down as chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
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