Purim Spoof: New Lead on Arafat’s Missing Millions

The PA is investigating if money it transferred to Suha Arafat wound up in a bank account belonging to HR's…

By March 17, 2011

The PA is investigating if money it transferred to Suha Arafat wound up in a bank account belonging to HR’s USA director Gary Kenzer.

The inquiry was spurred by mysterious emails from Mrs. Arafat to Kenzer citing mutual friends in Libya’s banking industry.

Kenzer denied any dealings with Mrs. Arafat, though he admits having a social relationship with Mohammed Rashid, Yasser Arafat’s former economic advisor.

“We just went to some WhiteSox games together, nothing more,” said Kenzer. “He wasn’t ostentatious about his his wealth, and he didn’t strike me as someone who might be wanted by the PA for embezzling millions.”

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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