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Byline: Richard Newman
Apr. 25--Isaac Aviram emerged unscathed from some dicey situations while serving as a sergeant and paratrooper in the Israeli army during the 1980s and 1990s.
It was his regular job as an art dealer that nearly killed him.
One typically harried day about five years ago, he was navigating his Honda motorcycle through a congested street in Tel Aviv to get to a business meeting and an inattentive truck driver caused him to take a mean spill.
Aviram lay on the pavement with a broken clavicle, broken ribs, and a punctured lung, among other injuries.
"I was almost dying, and when I was rolling on the ground all I was thinking was, 'Oh, I'm going to be late for the meeting,'" he says.
"That's when I knew that I think too much about work." Soon afterward, in the summer of 2000, he put a trusted associate in charge of his Aviram Art Gallery in Tel Aviv and moved his family to Fair Lawn where he opened a wholesale showroom and small distribution center.