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Trump Appoints Yehuda Kaploun as Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism
President Donald Trump named Israeli-born rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to the post. Haaretz reported that consultants had approached NSO one month earlier with a proposal involving Kaploun to lift the firm's U.S. blacklist status.
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President Donald Trump appointed Yehuda Kaploun as special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism. Kaploun is an Israeli-born ultra-Orthodox activist and rabbi. Haaretz reported that a group of consultants approached NSO one month before the appointment announcement with a proposal to use connections in Washington, including with Kaploun, to remove the Israeli cyber firm from the U.S.
Commerce Department's blacklist. NSO rejected a demand to pay $125,000 to hire a lobbyist who also serves as Kaploun's personal attorney, Gur Megiddo, TheMarker reported via Haaretz. Kaploun appeared at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination in November.
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