A Gala Christmas in Vienna Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman stick to traditional fare like "Deck the Halls" and European carols, all is bright", and cautioned "but when Domingo bellows over Trevor Horn's bombastic "The Closing of the Year," and Brightman attempts to rock on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," they're just schlockin' around the Christmas tree." A Gala Christmas in Vienna A Gala Christmas in Vienna or Christmas in Vienna V is a DVD released in 1998. Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman, Helmut Lotti and Riccardo Cocciante perform traditional, European and American Christmas songs in Vienna, Austria. The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony, conducted
Elhanan Tannenbaum In 2000, Tannenbaum, who was in debt due to gambling and business failures, was approached by his childhood friend Kais Obeid, an Israeli-Arab, who was working for Hezbollah, and who had previously been tried by an IDF military court in the Gaza Strip for a planned operation to abduct an Israeli in Gaza and taking him to Lebanon by boat. Obeid, along with Lebanese Hezbollah operative Kaid Biro, was planning to abduct Tannenbaum in Dubai and take him to Lebanon for Hezbollah to use as a bargaining chip. Obeid offered Tannenbaum a part in an alleged lucrative drug-dealing operation. Tannenbaum