Mark of Cain (novel)

It was Israel's top paperback for five weeks;[1] was in April 1996 'the fastest selling book in Israeli history';[2] and by 2008 had sold 100,000 copies.

One of them, a man named Jacob Bornstein, stumbles across a burning German convoy and finds a crying baby in the car of the commander, Berman.

He is housed by a kindly German woman whose husband was in the SS and she takes care of him and the baby lovingly until she discovers he is Jewish.

Years later, when Michael is seventeen, Jacob dies leaving his adopted son devastated, and carrying his secret to the grave.

Michael eventually becomes head of the Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, and sends a spy called Dan Elad to intercept Neo-Nazi activities in Argentina.

Finally the trial is held in Jerusalem and after Dan Elad's testimony of her activities, Ilsa is sentenced to twenty years in prison.