NEW YORK -- Many men have conquered Jerusalem -- Saladin, Allenby, Dayan -- but Irving Moskowitz is the first to defend his campaign in the language of the American civil rights movement -- and the first to finance his conquest in part by operating a bingo parlor.
A physician and real estate developer whose charitable foundation owns one of California's largest bingo operations, Dr. Moskowitz is emerging as the linchpin of the increasingly desperate effort by right-wing Jews to buy up property in Arab-dominated East Jerusalem in advance of peace talks.
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