Rebirth of England.

Chapter 1003 Explosion Attack
It can be said that Louis Vuitton (LV) and Dior are the two core brands of the LVMH Group. These two brands support half of the LVMH Group.

Currently, LVMH Group holds 74% of Dior's shares. This part of the acquisition began in the 1960s. Dior, which was in crisis, was eager to raise funds and completed the transaction.

However, Christian Dior still has 26% of its shares held by some institutions. After the LVMH Group failed to acquire Hermès in 2017, it offered a 15% premium and exchanged the Hermès shares they held at the time with those institutions holding Christian Dior, thereby completing its full shareholding in Dior.

At that time, LVMH Group's acquisition of Hermès was supported by several banks including NM Rothschild Bank.

From this, we can see that the cash flow of LVMH Group is not very abundant. If they want to participate in the acquisition of Tiffany and compete with GHL Group for a bid, Barron will "besiege Wei to save Zhao" and bid to buy the shares of institutions holding Christian Dior shares.

Although it would be impossible to snatch the brand from LVMH Group even if all the remaining 26% of Christian Dior shares were purchased, it would be very reasonable for LVMH to join Dior's board of directors with this proportion of shares. I'm afraid LVMH Group absolutely does not want this to happen.

When faced with the choice between Dior and Tiffany, LVMH's choice will undoubtedly be Dior, the core brand of the group.

In addition to the acquisition of Tiffany, Domenico De Sole also talked about the current development of the GHL Group.

Since Barron's acquired these companies to form the GHL Group, it has paid great attention to the Asian market, especially the Chinese market.

In recent years, the GHL Group has opened more than 10 GHL flagship stores in China's Yanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shancheng and other cities, which include all the brand products of the GHL Group, including Gucci, Hermès, L'Oreal and Valentino, and all of them are located in the center of the most prosperous business districts. In fact, high-end brands like these under the GHL Group are very popular in all commercial complexes and can improve the style of these places. Therefore, they can often get extremely low rent or even free rent when they move into these places.

In addition to the layout of new stores, the GHL Group has also carried out a series of promotional activities in China, and even chose China to launch some of their new products, which has also significantly increased the GHL Group's market share in China's high-end luxury sector.

As reflected in operating income, their revenue in China has been increasing for ten consecutive years, and the Chinese market has become the most important market for the GHL Group worldwide.

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June 6th is the day of Pentecost in Israel.

Pentecost commemorates the day when Moses received the Ten Commandments and is also known as the Harvest Festival because it coincides with the harvest of wheat and fruit.

On this day, people will decorate their homes with flowers, eat a sumptuous holiday meal the night before, and recite the "Ten Commandments" on the day of the festival.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of that day, the Mossad headquarters in the Griwatu area in the southern end of the Israeli capital Tel Aviv suffered a suicide bombing attack by two cars loaded with bombs.

The bombing resulted in 36 deaths and more than injuries.

When the explosion occurred, the then Mossad director Talmir Pardo and another deputy director died on the spot because they had just entered the headquarters building.

It can be said that this attack was the most significant loss suffered by Mossad since its establishment in 1951. This attack also shocked the whole of Israel.

After the incident, Israel immediately mobilized all its forces to investigate the bombing.

In particular, the timing of the attack was too coincidental - Mossad director Talmir Pardo had just entered the headquarters building and was not spared. Therefore, Israel needs to know as soon as possible whether the bombing was a premeditated attack based on precise intelligence. If so, it means that there are big problems within Mossad.

Although the "terrorists" who carried out the bombing were turned into dust on the spot due to the high-intensity explosion, Israel still determined that the other party was from the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas through the detection of residual human tissue and the investigation of relevant intelligence. But the problem is that the Greillot area where the Mossad headquarters is located is also the location of several intelligence departments of the Israel Defense Forces. It can be said that the defense is very tight. The other party must have obtained very accurate intelligence and other assistance to carry out such a precise bombing. What if this attack did not take place at the Mossad headquarters, but at the Prime Minister's Office at No. 3 Balifor Street in Jerusalem?

This made the Israeli side very nervous, and they needed to investigate all the information about this attack as quickly as possible.

But no matter what, since it has been "confirmed" that the bombing was carried out by Palestinians, the Israelis immediately launched a new round of bombing and artillery attacks on the Palestinian-controlled areas in retaliation.

Many suspicious persons were arrested and interrogated "efficiently".

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"What I want to know is, judging from the intensity of the explosion, the other side used extremely powerful explosives. How did Hamas get them? Is there anyone behind them supporting them?"

In response to questions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the new acting director of Mossad, Yossi Cohen, replied:

"According to our detection, the explosives used by the other party are C4 explosives, which are highly effective and easy to explode. They can easily avoid X-ray security inspections, and it is difficult for police dogs without specific olfactory training to identify them. I think this is also the reason why the other party was able to bring them into Israel..."

Yossi Cohen was born in 1961 and grew up in a Jewish family in Jerusalem.

Before the founding of Israel in 1948, his father Leo was the leader of the Irgun militia. The Irgun, whose full name is Irgun Zvei Leumi, means "National Military Organization", is a Zionist military organization. This organization is not only mainly engaged in spying on British garrisons in Palestine and smuggling arms from abroad, but also carried out many extreme terrorist operations against Arabs and British.

The most horrific action was undoubtedly the bombing of the King David Hotel on July 1946, 7. This terrorist attack killed 22 people and injured 91 people. Among the dead and injured were British, Arabs, Swedes and other Europeans, and even Jews...

The Irgun was disbanded after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and its members later participated in the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces.

The Irgun's organizational philosophy and mode of action had a profound impact on Israel's subsequent political and military strategies.

Yossi Cohen is fluent in several languages, including Hebrew, English, French and Arabic.

In 1983, Cohen was specially recruited into Mossad. He initially received training as a case officer and became an Israeli border policeman, but in fact he was an officer of Mossad's Training and Organization Affairs Department, responsible for recruiting and training spies and training agents for the Israel Military Intelligence Agency (Aiman) and the Israel National Security Agency (Shin Bet).

In the 20s, Cohen served as director of Mossad's intelligence collection department, serving the Israeli military's combat operations and overseas covert operations.

In 2011, Cohen was appointed deputy director of Mossad and actively supported the work of Director Talmir Pardo - they focused their work on Iran's nuclear development and organized assassinations against Iranian nuclear scientists.

Last August, he was appointed Israel's National Security Advisor, providing important intelligence and policy advice to Prime Minister Neta's cabinet in the fields of national security and diplomacy.

In early 2016 in the original time and space, Cohen was officially appointed as the director of Mossad. During his tenure, he organized Mossad agents to steal half a ton of nuclear weapons development documents, 5 pages of documents and 163 computer hard drives from Iran.

Now, after Mossad Director Talmir Pardo died in the bombing, Yossi Cohen has been appointed acting director of Mossad in advance.

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