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Buffett’s Dream Deal
In May 2006, Berkshire Hathaway purchased an 80% stake in Iscar for US$4 billion; it was the first time it acquired a company based outside of the United States, and it is one of its few companies outside the insurance market. Berkshire Hathaway is chaired by Warren Buffett, who in 2008 defined Iscar as a “dream deal.” Moreover, in a 2012 letter to shareholders, Buffet described Iscar’s managers as “brilliant strategists and operators,” he also praised the sales growth and performance of the company as “unique in its industry.”
On May 1, 2013, Buffett announced that he is buying the remnant 20% of Iscar for $2 billion; this shows the value of the company has increased substantially since 2006. Eitan Wertheimer, Stef’s son and Chairman of International Metalworking Companies, the company running the Iscar corporation, said to Israeli newspaper Calcalist: “It was important for us to sell the company before familiar problems regarding the ownership would appear.” The deal had transformed Stef Wertheimer into one of the planet’s richest men. Buffett’s comments kept praising the “Israeli unique company which had become a truly global corporation,” “Iscar keeps amazing us,” he was quoted by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
Businessmen like to mercilessly crush ethical and political considerations blocking their way to profits. Yet, in their merciless, cruel, inconsiderate behavior they are often naive. I am not sure that Mr. Buffett understands Iscar capability to show profits when other leading companies in the field cannot.  Iscar open list of customers, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, and General Electric, are part of the explanation. The industrial links between Israel and Turkey are based on military industries, is another part of the explanation. Iscar strategy, already praised by Buffett, is based on “a fallback position, including inventories,” as explained by our Stef to Bloomberg, on November 19, 2012. Those aware of the jargon and techniques, have already recognized the nature of Iscar, a company capable of producing militar-standard items.
Mr. Buffett, you are witnessing the strategy of an army. You are working with a slightly disguised military operation; it’s inexplicable profits, at least under your own civilian analysis, are the result of its military-related operations. I am sorry to spoil the delusion behind your dream deal, but there is yet another odd issue behind Iscar. Israel didn’t care about selling it because all key facilities and technologies will stay within Israel; the point here is Israel, not Wertheimer.
Most Israelis seeing the name “Iscar” for the first time will mispronounce it; it doesn’t make any sense on its surface level. “Iscar” is a made up name, but it is written exactly as an existing word. The first attempt to pronounce it (Hebrew is written without vowels, names are always tricky to pronounce) will result in “Yeshaker.” This is a proper Hebrew verb meaning “he will lie.” A word related in meaning and enjoying an equally improbable use is CAZAB (lie), the name for the illegitimate intelligence alliance listening to worldwide communications, of which Israel is an unofficial member. “Iscar” is literally a lie, a front for something else. Iscar’s name is undersigned by Mossad. Mr. Buffett, please don’t sit with your back at your new friends, they are not what they seem to be.

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* Iscar is written with a “shin” but pronounced with the far less common “sin” (it is one letter with two sounds). In order to know how to pronounce, a Hebrew reader refers to the root of the word. In this case it clearly is “shin-kof-resh,” from which verbs and nouns related to lies are derived. Thus, if not knowing the company, it would be pronounced Yeshaker.
This is similar to the Biblical “shibboleth” in Judges 12:6, “Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.”