Talk:Lev Avnerovich Leviev

chabad dynasty
Why is there a "chabad dynasty" box on this page?? --Gilabrand 13:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

settlements
Hi- I made extensive additions with many references to this page earlier regarding Leviev's documented involvement in settlement construction, which are illegal under international law. Why have they been removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.165.167 (talk) 22:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

ethnicity in lead sentence
Can/should that be removed per mosbio? TIA --Tom 15:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

updates
this article should be updated. Leviev recnetly opened a NYC Madison Ave. store. Adalah NY, a local human rights group, protested outside the opening & called on Susan Sarandon, who crossed the picket line, to oppose Leviev's building of West Bank settlements. Residents of the West Bank village of Bilin also asked Sarandon to oppose Leviev's building of a settlement on land confiscated fr. them. The NY Post, Jewish Forward & Jewish Telegraphic Agency have all covered this story. There is more in my blog post

Haaretz also reports that Leviev is a major supporter of the Land Redemption Fund, which buys Arab land under false pretences in order to transfer it to settlements. Leviev also owns the Elad Company whose goal is to "Judaize" East Jerusalem (again this is from Haaretz).

Leviev also now owns more than $1 billion in NY real estate & will be moving his offices from Israel to London according to Haaretz. Richard (talk) 21:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Since the US is on its way to economic oblivion, Leviev left Israel and preferred to settle in London, rather than New York. (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3318016.ece) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.122.63 (talk) 00:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Levien no longer lives in Israel. He moved to London, UK! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.133.81 (talk) 18:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Settlement activity has been noted, deleted
Notes on Leviev's construction of settlements have been added and deleted twice now. I have added them once before, I will restore them--why are they being deleted? Please do not delete without providing some explanation, or edit what you find problematic without deleting the entire section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.199.64 (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi-I'm one of two users who has tried to add information about Leviev's settlement activity to this page, only to have it reverted. If you would like to discuss it, please tell me what NPOV/BLP violations you found that caused you to revert and protect the page from future edits.

For Your Information.
Unfortunately there are a number of people who act as censor for "inconvenient truths" at Wikipedia. I had similar experiences concerning my edition to a Susan Sarandon article when I posted that she crossed an anti-Leviev picket line last November. They accused me of POV and removed it. Then one or two of them began to start to "edit" an article I was working on-- I suppose to send me a message or punish me. What can one do, except to get more like minded people as you to counter them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artpot (talk • contribs) 21:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for Request for Comment
An active editor on this article should post an RFC on the censorship issue. Seems valid. My own opinion is that the protests are quite appropriate to include. ike to hear from others. Boodlesthecat (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I would also agree that the settlement criticism & resulting protests should be included, of course in a WP:NPOV way. Kalkin (talk) 20:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Lev Leviev no longer lives in Israel
Lev Leviev has recently moved to a mansion in New Hampstead, London, United Kingdom. See this if you dont believe me. PLEASE CORRECT THAT!!!-- Nadir D Steinmetz 19:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Why wouldn't anyone believe you? Boodlesthecat (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, than correct the article. Anyways, why is it protected, and not semi-protected?-- Nadir D Steinmetz 21:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Uh, I can't its protected. Boodlesthecat (talk) 23:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Re-added cleaned up section on settlements
Since no one has argued otherwise for a couple of weeks, and the page is no longer protected, I've restored a cleaned up section on Israeli settlements with some of the former info and most of the POV wording removed. Protests against Leviev about this issue have garnered significant media attention and the facts are sourced to reputable newspapers; I think it's clear that the issue deserves inclusion. Whether the existing section, even cleaned up, is up to Wikipedia standards I don't know - but please edit it, rather than removing it. Kalkin (talk) 00:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've cleaned it up some, removing the most obvious POV-pushing. I am still not convinced that the actions by a subsidiary of a holding company of which he is an owner deserves such significant mention on the biography of the person - perhaps we can find sources that directly protested his personal involvement, and rewrite accordingly. Canadian Monkey (talk) 02:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the section talking about his "alleged illicit activities" do to obvious weasel word violationsJacksatan (talk) 05:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

section removed from article
I've moved the following section from the article to the talk page:

Leviev is linked with ElAd Properties, one of the key players in settlement expansion in Silwan. Leviev placed the first bid on ElAd's new apartments at New York City's Plaza Hotel [7] and was one of the guests of honor at an ElAd reception for its new City of David visitors center in Silwan.[8] The Israeli daily Haaretz queried whether Leviev is one of ElAd's five major undisclosed contributers and received no answer.[9]

The reason is that it is one big original research. For starters, buying (or bidding on) property from a real-estate company is not being 'linked with' said comapny I bought a can of Campbell's soup today from Safeway, but I don't believe this "links" me with either Safeway or Campbell's. Next, ElAd properties is a different entity from the non-profit El Ad association which hosted the reception, and in any case, attending a reception as a guest is, again, not being 'linked' with the organization in any meaningful way. Finally, if Leviev was, in fact, a contributor to El-Al that might warrant a mention, but Ha'aretz's speculations that it might be true have no place in an encyclopedia. Canadian Monkey (talk) 02:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright, point taken. I suppose it really was original research. I'll just have to get some journalist to write it up somewhere, and then I can cite it ;) (don't worry, I don't know any journalists)LamaLoLeshLa (talk) 02:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Has Leviev ever done business with Donald Trump? 173.88.241.33 (talk) 05:29, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
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Lev_Avnerovich_Leviev#Alaska_Diamonds
What is the source for Lev_Avnerovich_Leviev? User:Fred Bauder Talk 01:45, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Schneerson Chabad
Relevant to add:

some saying 1990, others 1992 – that Leviev visited the then Chabad leader, the late and legendary Lubavitch rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to ask for a blessing, particularly with regard to doing business in the former Soviet Union, where Leviev saw great opportunities.

According to one version, Leviev was behind another businessman who, it turned out, wanted the same blessing for the same purpose from the rebbe.

But the rebbe urged that man not to go to Russia.

Despite his dismay, Leviev made his request to the rebbe – and, to his delight, received a reply that was the opposite to that given to his predecessor.

Schneerson actually urged him to invest in the former Soviet Union

https://www.miningweekly.com/print-version/leviev-enters-african-gem-scene-2002-07-01 Walapo (talk) 19:19, 21 August 2022 (UTC)