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The Israeli Embassy, Palace Gardens, London – The Next Day
For the final preparations of Sweetbait the safe room at the embassy was busy. Yuval led the briefings, witnessed by the government minister and the deputy ambassador who were also in the room as they would be in the front line of the media. Mia, the government minister, was a former regional director of the organisation; she’d left to go into politics and retained a fondness for the old team. Yossi, the deputy ambassador, was a different matter; the ferret-faced suit was the ambassador’s hatchet man. Formerly known as Joe Rappaport, he was a British businessman who had made aliyah, some said, for the tax benefits. Two seats down from Eli, he looked upon the proceedings with apparent disdain. Or maybe he simply didn’t understa
