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Both sides—the min- NShlomo Helbrans rings a Denholtz. ister who suspended himself af- bell with some JLBC readers, it In 1992, Hana Reuven Fhima j ter being pressed with criminal should. He has lately been in the and her second husband, Jacky charges and the ministry run by news because of his Lev Tahor Fhima, secular Israelis, were liv- Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- cult—with its burqa-clad wom- ing in New Milford. They had yahu and later by Deputy Foreign en and accusations of child four children, including Shai, a Minister Zeev Elkin during Liber- abuse by the Canadian author- son by Hana’s previous marriage Minister of Foreign Aff airs - Avigdor ities in Quebec. This is not Hel- to Michael Reuven, who lived in CONTINUED ON P. 9 Liberman brans’ fi rst serious brush with Israel. The Fhima family came to the law. 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