That year another essential event occurs

in the Japan. What is Even today, it is a mystery. Just known that installed at Tokyo, he there married Leah Freudlsberger, whose father is a professor at the University of Tokyo and whose mother is from an old family of the Japanese aristocracy; He starts his account as traders metal - a rare commodity at the time - which earned him valuable contacts with the leaders of Nippon Steel, and to have its entries to the Imperial General staff.

In 1945, found in the ruins of Tokyo, already successful, selling to the US Army of occupation of the facilities for bathrooms and kitchens made of aluminium recovered on the carcasses of aircraft with the complicity of his former contacts in the Japanese army. At the time of the reconstruction of the Japan, this activity, located at the borders of recovery and the industry, made his fortune. It allows him to penetrate very soon in other countries in Asia, in particular in Korea South, where he opened an Office in the early 1950s. He is trading in all kinds of goods, wood, steel and metals, textile - then re-exported to the Japan. Israeli citizen since 1949, it is one of the pillars of the Jewish community in Tokyo, where it is construct a synagogue.

In 1962, Saul Eisenberg, his wife and their six children moved permanently to Tel Aviv. Until 1970, however, his company is still registered to the Japan, allowing him to escape high taxes affecting the profits in respect of the import-export. It was in 1970 that the Knesset did pass a law totally exempting these activities. Legislation immediately dubbed "Act Eisenberg" by the press. It must be said that the businessman is engaged in an intense work of lobbying to repeal these tax provisions. That year, another essential event occurs. The head of a small present commercial empire in the Japan, South Korea and Thailand, Saul Eisenberg indeed became the main shareholder of Israel Corporation, a company founded in 1968 by the Hebrew State to raise funds for public enterprises to the global Jewish diaspora. This operation allows to Saul Eisenberg to put one foot in the shipping - with the shipping company Zim-, chemistry and oil. By Israel Corp., which it will eventually control 49 of the shares, Saul Eisenberg is also beginning to forge valuable contacts with the Israeli political class. He is very close to the Likud, which many founding members were members of the movement Betar and Irgun.

At what point precisely Saul Eisenberg start, via business and large business, to work towards the sino-israélien approximation Hard to say. According to some sources, everything would have begun in 1978, when back from China where he had gone to business, he would have contacted Prime Minister Menachem Begin - a former of the Betar movement, too - and he would have offered to open the doors of the empire of the middle to the interests Israelis, including through the sale of weapons and military equipment, in exchange for exclusive to total on these exchanges. What is safe, it is that at this date the businessman has contacts in China via the Jewish community that he has never completely lost sight, that China is seeking to modernize its army and, because they could count on the West, it is open to any alternative solution. For their part, the Israelis are also interested.

Thus goes the realpolitik

In addition to the military industry of the country, in butte competition European and American, is looking for export markets, it is not hostile, high-level, closer to a State which supports, since 1949, the Israeli Arab enemies. A Tel - Aviv, thought indeed that such approximation could influence the Chinese diplomacy in the right direction. Finally remaining Americans. Since Kissinger operated a rapprochement with China - culminating in the Nixon visit to Beijing in February 1972-, they are not hostile to what Israel is helping the Chinese. Washington is unknown although not that part of the military equipment sold by Israel will take the road to Cambodia, then bleed the appalling regime of the Khmer Rouge. But the Khmer Rouge are the friends of the Chinese and the enemies of the Vietnamese, the bête noire of the United States. The enemies of my enemies are my friends. Thus goes the realpolitik.

From the end of the 1970s, while pursuing its own business in a large part of the world, parallel Saul Eisenberg starts to regularly deliver weapons to China, levying 5 commissions on each delivery. First through the Sibat, a government agency whose Eisenberg is the unofficial representative, the transactions are then through a company specially recorded in the Panama to this effect and dependent on Israel Corp.: United Development Inc. systems of communication, 105 mm guns, night sight systems, surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles: everything moves, including whole cargoes of pistolets-mitrailleurs Uzi. Very related to Shimon Peres - Minister of defence, Foreign Affairs and twice Prime Minister - Saul Eisenberg has also its entries in the Israeli military-industrial complex, and the Mossad.

The Hebrew State to gain what he seeks: a progressive rapprochement with China, which will culminate in 1992 with the establishment of official diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Eisenberg, always with the agreement of the Israeli authorities, expanding its operations to other geographical areas. Well before that broke out, in the United States, contra - the sale of weapons to the Iranians whose profits are used to finance the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary movement Contras - the Hebrew State, through the Saul Eisenberg, and sells weapons to the Iran, then at war with the Iraq, one of his worst enemies in the Middle East. There are even the hand of the businessman in South America. Until his death in 1997, Saul Eisenberg thereby figure informal agent of Israeli diplomacy.

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