To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (333135 ) 3/30/2007 5:08:12 AM From: elmatador Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258 The best-known rabbi in Brazil, Rabbi Henry Sobel, requested a suspension from his duties as chief of Sao Paulo Rabbinate after media reports that he had been charged with stealing expensive ties in Florida shops. ... Police said that Sobel, 63, was arrested last Friday after a surveillance camera in a Louis Vuitton shop showed him picking up a tie, folding it and then leaving the shop empty-handed, the Palm Beach Daily News reported on Thursday. stuff.co.nz Emat: Disgracing the name of the honest Brazilian people! Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and nude, a spokeswoman said Monday. The embarrassing affair was one of several involving Israeli diplomats in recent years. In 2000, Israel's ambassador to France died of cardiac arrest in a Paris hotel under circumstances the Foreign Ministry refused to publicize. Media reports said he was with a woman who was not his wife at the time. Last year, Israel replaced its ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir, after he said Israel and Australia are "like sisters" because both are located in Asia and their peoples don't have the Asian characteristics of "yellow skin and slanted eyes." In 2005, Israel canceled the appointment of a diplomat to Australia after it was discovered that he published pictures of nude Brazilian women on the Internet while on a mission in Brazil. Suspended President Moshe Katsav was questioned under warning Thursday, after a new sex offence complaint was filed against him by one of the current complainants in his case, police reported. ELMAT: Got to improved the public relations, Zeus!