The inside story of Israelâs secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups.
Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist groupâand you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive or how to even make contact with the insurgents holding him. Itâs a nightmare scenario that has sadly taken place dozens of times in the past twenty years in the Middle East.
Here in the U.S., the government does not always get involved. Instead, it will engage the services of a neutral country to negotiate with the terrorists.
Unfortunately, many times the terrorists insist on never-ending demands in order to torment the family of the hostage. Unlike Israel, weâve never had a central address for these types of scenarios. But maybe after reading this book, itâs an idea we could, and should, consider. Ory Slonim, the international âdoor knocker,â was an invention of necessity by the Israeli government.
There were many good and brave human beings involved in this matter. Here for the first time is the story of the one man in Israel who, for more than two decades, was known as the âdoor knocker.â He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake, on behalf of the Israeli government, secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive. In his capacity as negotiator, his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad, the twisted minds of terrorists, the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle, and into Oryâs own resilient, compassionate, and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken down.hostage by terrorist groups. His ultimate mission was to bring them home, dead oralive. In his capacity as negotiator, his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad, the twisted minds of terrorists, the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle, and into Oryâs own resilient, compassionate, and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken down.