Tibor Rosenbaum
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Tibor Rosenbaum | |
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Born | |
Died | October 23, 1980 | (aged 56)
Burial place | Har HaMenuchot |
Occupation(s) | rabbi, businessman |
Spouse | Stephanie Stern |
Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum (
Life
Rosenbaum was born Kisvárda.[3] He was the son of Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Rosenbaum, Chief Rabbi of Kisvárda, son of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Rosenbaum who was also the Rabbi of Kisvárda and author of Lechem Rav (Hebrew: לחם רב). Their lineage went back to Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel.[2]
November 2, 1923 inAt age 18, he received semikhah (rabbinical ordination) from Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.[3]
During The Holocaust, Rosenbaum saved hundreds of Jews while being disguised as a German
After the war, he returned to Kisvárda, where there were now only 400 Jews instead of the 5,000 who lived there before the war. He was installed as the city's rabbi, replacing his late father. He married Stephanie Stern, who survived on the
Rosenbaum died from a
October 23, 1980, leaving behind his wife, two sons and a daughter.Fraudulent business activities
Soon after the establishment of Israel, Mr. Rosenbaum started an organization called "Helvis Company" to actively promote Israeli‐Swiss trade. A decade later, Helvis was alleged to have given kickbacks into a special fund of the National Religious party to obtain contracts from the Ministry of Health in connection with two hospitals near Tel Aviv.
Together with his friend
In 1963, its board of directors was composed of Pierre Audéoud (Chair), Samuel Scheps (Deputy Chair), Jacques Leimbacher (Assistant Director), Chaim Haller (Deputy) and Tibor Rosenbaum. Sylvain Ferdman, who was BCI's office manager in Geneva, acted as "money courier" for Meyer Lansky and other U.S. customers of the bank.
In 1973, it had two branches in
According to Richard Gilbride's book "Matrix for Assassination: The JFK Conspiracy," the bank was responsible for handling up to 90% of the Israeli Defense Ministry's arms purchases.
The bank is also notable for Avner Less, the Adolf Eichmann interrogator, having worked there from 1968 to 1973.
It went into liquidation and was deleted from the Swiss commercial register in 2011.
Children
- Rabbi Moshe (Eric) Rosenbaum, teaches in Yeshivas Derech Etz Chaim in Har Nof, Jerusalem[4]
- Leah Rowe, lives in Rehavya, Jerusalem[4]
- Shmuel (Charles), *1952, lives in Geneva,[4] who, as Geneva head of investment vehicle Cifco, was an associate of Ephraim Margulies notable for the Guinness share-trading fraud related to Ivan Boesky, the Jewish-American stock trader.
References
- ^ a b c מת איש העסקים טיבור רוזנבאום [Businessman Tibor Rosenbaum died]. Maariv (in Hebrew). Oct 24, 1980. Retrieved Sep 10, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Shira Schmidt (Feb 21, 2018). "Hiding Under Hate". Ami Magazine. No. 356. pp. 101–105.
- ^ a b "SHALOM" פנחס רוזנבאום [Pinchas Rosenbaum] (in Hebrew). Retrieved Sep 10, 2020.
- ^ a b c "AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CHILDREN OF PINCHAS ROSENBAUM". Ami Magazine. No. 356. Feb 21, 2018. p. 112.