Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, Israeli secret agent; Israeli author Lea Goldberg's only novel; apricot-pit games

Follow Tablet Magazine: July 19, 2011   Iran Continues to Block Argentina Bomb Inquiry The Jewish community center attack, 17 years later Daybreak: Flotilla Interception Done Right Plus lawyers in Kletzky case tease insanity defense, and more in the news Ziggy Marley Says He's Jealous of Judaism We return the favor More from THE SCROLL The Player Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan is the billionaire Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman. He was also a secret agent who helped Israel and South Africa broker deals trading nuclear material for propaganda assistance. An excerpt from the forthcoming Confidential. BY JOSEPH GELMAN AND MEIR DORON In June 1975, Arnon Milchan, an Israeli who is today a billionaire Hollywood producer, the man behind Pretty Woman, The King of Comedy, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, was invited by his friend Shimon Peres, then defense minister in Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government, to one of the strangest meetings in his life. He was asked to participate in a tempting scheme to help his country. More Coming of Age And This Is the Light, the sole novel by the prolific Israeli writer Lea Goldberg, recently released in English, imagines adolescence and romance on the verge of World War II in Lithuania More BY Adam Kirsch Pit Stop For kids growing up in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, before cable TV and video games, summer meant apricots and the apricot-pit game called gogoim, mindless child's play with political overtones More BY Liel Leibovitz This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 37 West 28th Street, 8th floor | New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend