Silent killers

Ronen Bergman takes his title from the Talmudic injunction, 'If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first'. Israel's roots are inextricably intertwined with the rejection of the passivism that afflicted European Jews-contemptuously, Muselmänner -- that sent them, unresisting, to the slaughterhouses of the Holocaust. They are equally enmeshed with the intelligence