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Article: The Suite Smell of Success
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- Jerusalem Post
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- November 27, 1996
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Haim Shapiro
Jerusalem Post
11-27-1996
When Oded Lifschitz was 14, he knew that he could play with his friends during the summer days, but at 12:45 he had to change out of his shorts and sandals into long pants and shoes and help serve lunch in the family hotel in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem quarter.
Today, Lifschitz, 52, is the Hilton Hotel chain's area manager for Israel. And recently he was in Jerusalem to meet with Ronnie Fortis, who will manage the Jerusalem hotel when it opens, world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie and real-estate developer Alfred Akirov, who is building the new Jerusalem Hilton in the Mamilla quarter. The hotel, which will have about 400 rooms and suites, is due to be ...