{"id":379898,"date":"2026-10-22T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379898\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:54:44","slug":"what-he-did-was-outrageous-ron-lauder-once-netanyahus-closest-confidant-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379898\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What He Did Was Outrageous&#8217;: Ron Lauder, Once Netanyahu&#8217;s Closest Confidant, Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Ronald Lauder has never lived in Israel. But in the past year the Jewish billionaire, who serves as president of the World Jewish Congress, has given up his remaining properties in the country, a sign of the deep shift in his views of its future. A deep sense of disgust appears on his face as he recounts this. &#8220;I&#8217;ve sold my apartment in Tel Aviv, I gave my home in Be&#8217;er Sheva to the Jewish National Fund, of which I&#8217;m also the chairman. I basically cut my ties there. Because it has become so\u2026,&#8221; Lauder grimaces, making a gesture of vomiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronald Lauder has never lived in Israel. But in the past year the Jewish billionaire, who serves as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3895,139389,98815,83376,33408,75,84,83,9,24,63,4661,9498],"class_list":["post-379898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-golan-heights","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israeli-politics","tag-lebanon","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-syria","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}