Joe Dekel is sent to cover an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in New York, he is waylaid by an earnest young American Jew who informs him he is Dekel's silencer, representing a right-wing blacklister to keep pro-Palestinian literature from being published in the USA.
Simon Louvish (born 1947 in Scotland) is an Israeli author and film maker. He has written many books about Avram Blok, a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses.
He has also written biographies of W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy, and Mack Sennett.