A real page-turner

A real page-turner

It could be a movie: Three cousins travel off the beaten path to remote villages in Ethiopia, avoiding bandits and fighting off the locals, to bring back to Israel an ancient prayer book that had been passed down from one generation of their family to the next.

My mother, the spy

My mother, the spy

As a young boy, Itzhak Levanon was present in the courtroom where his mother, Shulamit Kishik-Cohen, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for spying for Israel. Later in life, as a career diplomat, he helped pave the way for normalization agreements with Arab countries.  

The Eichmann Files

'All I did was turn Eichmann into ashes'

It was only after his father's death that artist Tuly Ziv discovered that he played a significant role in the execution of Nazi archcriminal Adolf Eichmann, and that he was the one who built the oven in which he was cremated. And life was never the same.