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David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of Still Life with Bombers (2004) and A Little Too Close to God (2000), and co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
Alec Guinness in the role of George Smiley (left); ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (Combo photo: Acorn Media and Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
“… the king summoned Efraim Halevy. Hussein had come to trust this quiet, intelligent, bespectacled Israeli whose signature feature was the strip of hair he combed across his balding scalp, and who, having grown up in London, spoke the King’s English. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to John le Carré’s master spy, George Smiley, Halevy had an immense capacity for discretion, a rare commodity among Israelis.”