Matzav6 hours agoBenny Begin, son of Likud founder and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, issued a blistering attack on Israeli Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu, accusing him of bearing ultimate responsibility for the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre and urging Israelis to express their judgment in the upcoming election.
Begin, who permanently left Likud about five years ago, published the remarks after Netanyahu said that senior security officials did not wake him during the night preceding the October 7 attack.
“You kept quiet and you lied too?!” Begin wrote.
Turning to the question of responsibility for the failures that preceded the massacre, Begin noted that both the IDF and Shin Bet operate under the authority of the government.
“It is self-evident that all members of the government bear responsibility for the terrible failure, special responsibility rests with the members of the Ministerial Committee on National Security, and the ultimate responsibility rests with the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. What is unclear here?” he wrote.
Begin then reflected on his decades-long political history, noting that he cast his first Knesset ballot 65 years ago, long before Likud itself was established.
“I voted for the Knesset for the first time 65 years ago. I placed the letter Chet in the ballot box for the Herut movement (Likud had not yet been established). Since then I have grown old and have seen quite a bit, but such ugliness as this government injects into our public life, such wretchedness in the leadership of the country, have never existed,” Begin wrote.
He concluded by pointing directly to the upcoming election, scheduled for Tuesday, October 27.
“The conclusion will come on the upcoming civic day, Tuesday, 16 Cheshvan, October 27. ‘Come out in droves,’” Begin wrote.
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JBizNews8 hours agoLululemon Athletica Inc. founder Chip Wilson and his wife and longtime business partner, Shannon “Summer” Wilson, are reportedly divorcing after more than two decades of marriage.
A family legal proceeding between the couple was filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in April, though the contents of the case are not publicly accessible, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, also reported that there is no prenuptial agreement between the couple, though it remains unclear how the divorce could affect the division of their assets.
Lululemon and Chip Wilson could not immediately be reached by FOX Business for comment.
Chip Wilson, 71, founded Vancouver-based Lululemon in 1998, according to Bloomberg.
He is widely credited with helping pioneer the athleisure apparel market.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Chip Wilson has an estimated net worth of roughly $6.1 billion.
Summer Wilson, 52, served as the company’s founding lead designer, according to her website. Chip Wilson has previously credited her with playing a key role in building the brand during its early years, Bloomberg reported.
The couple married in 2002.
Though both left the company more than a decade ago, Chip Wilson remains one of Lululemon’s largest shareholders and has continued to publicly weigh in on the retailer’s direction, Bloomberg reported.
He owns roughly 8.6% of the company, a stake worth just under $1 billion, while Summer Wilson owns nearly 1%, valued at about $100 million, according to Bloomberg.
Under British Columbia law, assets owned before a marriage generally remain excluded from division, while any increase in their value during the marriage is generally considered family property and is typically divided equally.
“In British Columbia, the value of assets brought into the marriage is not shareable, but the gain is called family property and presumptively divided 50-50,” Lorne MacLean KC, founder of Vancouver-based MacLean Law, told The New York Post.
The Wilsons’ reported split joins a number of high-profile billionaire divorces in recent years.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott finalized their divorce in 2019. Scott received a roughly 4% stake in Amazon, then valued at about $36 billion, BBC News reported at the time.
In 2021, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates divorced after 27 years. Following the announcement, Bill Gates transferred billions of dollars in stock to Melinda French Gates, according to Vanity Fair.
