Albert Bensimon

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Albert Bensimon is a prominent businessman from Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia. He is known mostly known to the public as the Manager of Shiels Jewellers. As the manager, he has had high advertisement profiles involving the slogan of "No Hoo-Haa".

He is of Jewish descent.

In 2002, he ran as a candidate in the South Australian State Elections for the House of Assembly with his "No Hoo-Haa" slogan and creating a party with the same name.

Bensimon also helped to established in 1994, the Helpmann Academy, which is designed to promote the Arts He was the first chairman of the academy and is still a member of its board.

The gentlemen's club, the Adelaide Club was under fire when Bensimon was rejected twice for membership to the club on the basis of Anti-Semitism. This was denied by the Club president, stating that is was "‘offensive’ to suggest the club was racist and that it has ‘a diverse membership’."^[1]