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Carlyle Group of US negotiating to buy IMI anti-terror unit
Sources inform ''Globes'' that the Carlyle Group of the US is
negotiating to buy Israel Military Industries' (IMI) Academy for
Advanced Security and Anti-Terror Training. Former US Secretary of
Defense Frank Carlucci is chairman of the Carlyle Group
The academy provides consultancy services and establishes and trains
anti-terror units for governments and private customers worldwide.
Operating in the Gezer regional council area, the academy employs former
defense establishment officials, most of whom work under contract. IMI
owns 75% of the academy, while IFP owns the rest.
Although the academy does not yet have large revenue, it attractiveness
increased after the September 11 attacks, hence the interest in it.
Carlucci was a consultant to General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), which competed
against Israel Military Industries for the Turkish Army tank upgrade
tender.
IMI is selling off all of its non-core businesses: small arms plants;
the Academy for Advanced Security and Anti-Terror Training, systems
engineering division; Aircraft Systems Division in Haifa, which
manufactures fuel tanks for fighter jets; and the general engineering
consultancy company. As reported by ''Globes'', there are plans to fully
privatize IMI later.
IMI claims that since the Vaish Committee published its recovery plan
for the company, "There has been considerable interest in acquiring the
units intended for sale." However, IMI's management said in response to
this report, "IMI does not care to comment about potential buyers for
the units that are up for sale."
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on September 23, 2002
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=620268&fid=942 ========InfoTrac Web: InfoTrac Newspapers.
Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ), Sept 10, 2002 pL13.
Title: Submachine gun inventor Uzi Gal, at 79.(LOCAL NEWS)
Electronic Collection: CJ91267453
RN: CJ91267453
Full Text COPYRIGHT 2002 North Jersey Media Group Inc.
Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM - Uzi Gal, inventor of Israel's most famous contribution to the arms
industry - the Uzi submachine gun - died Saturday in Philadelphia. He was 79.
The 9mm weapon has become a mainstay of armies and secret services from
Jerusalem to Washington. It has also proved popular among criminals in many
countries and has appeared in many action movies.
More than 1.5 million Uzis have been manufactured, and exports have earned
Israel billions of dollars - though Mr. Gal never received anything for it
beyond his Israel Military Industries salary.
Born Uziel Gal in Germany in 1923, he fled with his family to England when
Hitler came to power.
The family immigrated to British Mandatory Palestine in 1936 and settled in
Kibbutz Yagur, a collective farm near Haifa.
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Source: Los Angeles Times, Sept 10, 2002 pB-10.
Title: Obituaries; Uzi Gal, 79; Invented Popular Israeli Submachine Gun
in 1954.(California)(Obituary)(Brief Article)
Author: Myrna Oliver
Subjects: Inventors - Biography
People: Gal, Uzi - Biography
Locations: Pennsylvania
Electronic Collection: CJ91256448
RN: CJ91256448
Full Text COPYRIGHT 2002 The Times Mirror Company
Uzi Gal, who invented the Uzi submachine gun favored by military commandos,
Secret Service agents, underworld figures and a variety of Hollywood film
characters, has died. He was 79.
Gal, who had suffered from cancer and other illnesses for many years, died
Saturday in his Philadelphia home.
First made in 1954 by Israel Military Industries, the weapon has been sold in
90 countries.
More than 2 million guns have been produced, making hundreds of millions of
dollars for Israel, but not a shekel for Gal, who was a government weapons
expert.
Born in Germany, the son of a painter, Gal fled to England with his parents in
1933 when the Nazis came to power. Three years later, the family moved to
Palestine and the Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa.
Uzi attended technical school and showed an early proclivity for inventing
weapons. At 15, he created a bow that could automatically fire arrows.
Before he could complete an engineering degree, he was recruited by Palmach,
the elite unit of the pre-state of Israel army Hagana to head its armaments
department. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the British, then in control of what
would become Israel, for carrying weapons illegally.
Released three years later, Gal became a force in weapons development in the
fight for independence and later in the postwar Israel armament industry. He
became adept at designing computer programs to build weapons as well as the
weapons themselves.
But his best-known creation would be the Uzi and its variations.
The low-cost gun known for its reliability and simplicity, with its short
barrel, limited recoil and 100-round magazine in the handgrip, made an
immediate impact in the mid-1950s.
"It was a great moment for the state of Israel," Gal told a London newspaper
in 1997. "Because never in 2,000 years had there been such a thing: A weapon
that the Jewish people had made for themselves, and I designed it from the
ground up."
The Netherlands became the first country outside Israel to buy Uzis for its
army in 1958, and Belgium and Germany quickly followed.
Israel forces notably utilized the Uzi in the 1967 Six-Day War and in their
daring hostage rescue operation at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976.
The gun was etched in American consciousness in 1981 when a Secret Service
agent was photographed brandishing an Uzi after the attempted assassination of
President Ronald Reagan.
The Uzi also has appeared in less heroic photographs of street gangs, drug
lords and other criminals and on movie screens in the hands of the villains.
That kind of notoriety prompted a Barbara Walters television special more than
a decade ago stressing the dangers of permitting Uzis and other automatic
weapons to fall into the public's hands.
But an Israeli Military Industries official reported that sales doubled the
day after the program appeared.
"I suppose even bad people can recognize the best," he said.
Gal moved to Philadelphia some years ago.
But he continued to design weapons for Israel, especially guns that could be
sold in the United States.
No information on survivors was available.
Gal will be buried Thursday in Kibbutz Yagur in Israel.
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Source: News-Press (Fort Myers, FL), Sept 10, 2002 p5b.
Title: Obituaries.(Local State)(Obituary)
Electronic Collection: CJ91476891
RN: CJ91476891
Full Text COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission
of Gannett Co. Inc. by the Gale Group, Inc.
DEATHS ELSEWHERE
Uzi Gal, 79, inventor of Uzi submachine gun
JERUSALEM - Uzi Gal, inventor of Israel's most famous contribution to the arms
industry - the Uzi submachine gun - has died at age 79.
Relatives said Gal died Saturday in Philadelphia. He will be buried Thursday
in Kibbutz Yagur, a collective farm near Haifa where he lived for many years.
The 9 mm weapon has became a mainstay of armies and secret services from
Jerusalem to Washington. It has also proved popular among criminals in many
countries and has appeared in many action movies.
More than 1.5 million Uzis have been manufactured, and exports of the weapon
have earned Israel billions of dollars - though the modest, retiring Gal never
received anything for it beyond his Israel Military Industries salary.
Born Uziel Gal in Germany in 1923, he fled with his family to England when
Hitler came to power. The family immigrated to British Mandatory Palestine in
1936, when he was 13, and settled in Kibbutz Yagur.
>From an early age he showed technical talent. At age 15, he developed a bow
that could fire arrows automatically.
In 1943, he was caught by the British with a firearm in his possession and was
sentenced to seven years in jail. But he received a pardon and was released in
1946, when he went to work in the metal workshop at Yagur, secretly producing
arms for the pre-state Jewish underground.
In 1948, when the first Arab-Israeli war broke out, he was ordered to develop
a submachine gun for the Israeli army. The Uzi was not delivered to the army
until 1954, but in the 1956 Sinai campaign against Egypt it proved its deadly
effectiveness and reliability.
Gal was strongly opposed to the gun being named after him but the management
of IMI insisted.
In 1976, he retired from IMI and went to live in Philadelphia, where he
continued to develop weapons, including versions of the Uzi specially adapted
for the American market. Among the models produced were the Uzi Pistol a
machine pistol slightly larger than a regular handgun, the Micro-Uzi, which is
larger still and the Uzi Carbine, which has a longer barrel.
The Uzi is also the most copied weapon in the world, Israeli newspaper Yediot
Ahronot reported Monday. Copies were made in China and several eastern
European countries.
Gal is survived by a son, who lives in Philadelphia, and a brother.
- The Associated Press
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