Beznadezhnye voiny. Direktor samoi sekretnoi spetssluzhby Izrailia rasskazyvaet - Kedmi Iakov Iosifovich

Being a born fighter and a "convinced nonconformist", the author of this book has always accepted the challenge, not shying away from participating in the most desperate battles and the most "GREAT WAR", whether it is an uncompromising struggle to leave the USSR for Israel, famous The Doomsday War, which Yakov Kedmi spent in the Battalion Ehud Barak, in the same tank with the future prime minister, or work in the most secret Israeli secret service "Nativ", which is considered "a kind of closed club of the ruling elite of the Jewish state." Of all these battles, he emerged victorious, once again proving that "hopeless wars" do not exist and a man "who does not bow to anyone and nothing" is able to do the impossible.
Yakov Kedmi managed not only to escape from the Iron Curtain himself, but also, becoming the director of Nativ, to achieve a radical change in Israeli policy - thanks in large part to his efforts there was a mass exodus of Jews from the USSR in the early 1990s.
About all this - about the resistance to the Soviet regime and inter-agency struggle in the Israeli establishment, about the victorious war of doomsday and the mistakes of the command that led to unjustified losses, the blatant cases of discrimination of Soviet Jews in Israel and the need for decisive reforms that should lead the country out of a systemic crisis, - Jacob Kedmi told in his memoirs, without avoiding the most acute topics and not being afraid to raise the most painful questions, the main of which: "Is the present Jewish state of their people?