Prof. Motti Inbari explores the stranger-than-fiction tale of a woman who spied on the Gestapo, converted to Judaism twice, kidnapped a boy, and whose marriage sparked protests
Ruth Ben David was born into a Catholic family and died as an extremist Haredi woman; she joined the French Resistance and was recruited to spy on the Gestapo, served time in both French and Moroccan jails and was courted by the Mossad