24.05.2011                      20.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 35 des Omer

Feature:

From Georgia, with love – and money

Gabriel Mirilashvili, the leader of the Georgian Jewish community reflects in interview with 'Post' on how he learned that business and Judaism are inseparable.

The hundreds of guests who arrived at the red-carpet event hosted by the Peres Center for Peace last week were an odd sort. At the bar set up on a wooden deck overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Orthodox rabbis with bushy beards brushed shoulders with women in short dresses and stiletto heels while Israeli lawmakers and diplomats mingled with East European businessmen in flamboyant suits.
MKs Nino Abesadze, Ruhama Avraham- Balila and Yulia Shamolov Berkovich, all of Kadima, were in attendance….