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Tablet Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Alana Newhouse, introduces Doulgas Century at Gleason's Gym

Trade paperback edition of Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter

with special guests junior-welterweight Dimitriy Salita . . .

and former middleweight and light-heavyweight world champion Iran Barkley

heavy-hitting beats by Tel Aviv DJ Soulico

Forty years ago, poor, crime-ridden Israeli neighborhoods were often ruled by a local mobster. It was a Godfather-style situation: the bosses were feared, but they were also respected as protectors for those who played by their rules. But today’s Israeli mafia is something quite different, younger, greedier, more ambitious, and far more reckless. In 2006, Tablet contributing editor Douglas Century visited Hatikva, a neighborhood in south Tel Aviv that spawned some of the more deadly modern mafiosi. Accompanied by Ilan Benshoshan, who grew up there, Century met gangsters, drug dealers, pimps, and a frightened populace trying to steer clear of the violence. Vox Tablet’s Sara Ivry spoke to the pair for a street-level view of today’s Israeli mob.

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