bloodandvolume
02-14-2007, 11:12 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2007
Details of the “Israeli Mafia” to be detailed in forthcoming title from Barricade Books
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FORT LEE, N.J.—A murder and attempted murder in Tel Aviv in the past month may be related to the Israeli Mafia, a group that operated in the New York City in the 1980’s and will be chronicled in Blood & Volume: Inside New York’s Israeli Mafia, which is scheduled to be released by Barricade Books in early March.
Ran Efraim, a key player in the gang that imported and exported hundreds of kilos of heroin and cocaine to and from New York City in the 1980’s, was fatally shot near his Tel Aviv apartment on February 1. Efraim served six years in a U.S. prison for his role in the 1990 murder of Israeli Mafia leader Johnny Attias. He later lived in the federal Witness Protection Program but in recent years he had returned to Israel, where he was working as an art dealer.
Efraim’s murder came one day after Shuli Rokach, a lesser-known figure in the Israeli mafia, was seriously injured in a Tel Aviv bomb blast.
Efraim is the third person affiliated with the Israeli mafia to be killed in Tel Aviv since 2003.
Barricade Books will release Dave Copeland’s Blood & Volume: Inside New York’s Israeli Mafia, a narrative nonfiction account of crime, sex, drugs and murder in 1980’s New York in early March.
Copeland is the first journalist to uncover the inside story of the Israeli mafia after spending two years interviewing surviving members of the gang, as well as the law enforcement officials who brought down the syndicate with a string of convictions and guilty pleas in the early 1990s. The book is structured around the life and crimes of Ron Gonen, a key criminal in the gang who has spent the past 17 years living in the federal Witness Protection Program after cooperating with DEA agents and law enforcement officials in New York and New Jersey.
Last week Gonen was terminated from the federal Witness Protection Program for speaking with Copeland and assisting him in researching Blood & Volume. Gonen remains in hiding but now faces deportation back to Israel and has begun working with an immigration attorney in an effort to stay in the United States.
February 14, 2007
Details of the “Israeli Mafia” to be detailed in forthcoming title from Barricade Books
www.bloodandvolume.com (http://www.bloodandvolume.com)
FORT LEE, N.J.—A murder and attempted murder in Tel Aviv in the past month may be related to the Israeli Mafia, a group that operated in the New York City in the 1980’s and will be chronicled in Blood & Volume: Inside New York’s Israeli Mafia, which is scheduled to be released by Barricade Books in early March.
Ran Efraim, a key player in the gang that imported and exported hundreds of kilos of heroin and cocaine to and from New York City in the 1980’s, was fatally shot near his Tel Aviv apartment on February 1. Efraim served six years in a U.S. prison for his role in the 1990 murder of Israeli Mafia leader Johnny Attias. He later lived in the federal Witness Protection Program but in recent years he had returned to Israel, where he was working as an art dealer.
Efraim’s murder came one day after Shuli Rokach, a lesser-known figure in the Israeli mafia, was seriously injured in a Tel Aviv bomb blast.
Efraim is the third person affiliated with the Israeli mafia to be killed in Tel Aviv since 2003.
Barricade Books will release Dave Copeland’s Blood & Volume: Inside New York’s Israeli Mafia, a narrative nonfiction account of crime, sex, drugs and murder in 1980’s New York in early March.
Copeland is the first journalist to uncover the inside story of the Israeli mafia after spending two years interviewing surviving members of the gang, as well as the law enforcement officials who brought down the syndicate with a string of convictions and guilty pleas in the early 1990s. The book is structured around the life and crimes of Ron Gonen, a key criminal in the gang who has spent the past 17 years living in the federal Witness Protection Program after cooperating with DEA agents and law enforcement officials in New York and New Jersey.
Last week Gonen was terminated from the federal Witness Protection Program for speaking with Copeland and assisting him in researching Blood & Volume. Gonen remains in hiding but now faces deportation back to Israel and has begun working with an immigration attorney in an effort to stay in the United States.