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The art of interviewing the lieutenant to an Israeli crime boss:
...Hyman, who waited for me next to the bleach-blonde receptionist, led me into a nearby conference room. About 10 men sat around a long table, smoking. He signaled for me to sit down at the end. "This is a journalist?" one of them half-said, half-asked. Everyone turned to look at me.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Neri. What do we do now?" I asked.
"Now we sit and wait for Ya'akov," the guy said.
Everyone was silent. I tried to break the silence. "In the meantime, we can talk about something - maybe everyone can introduce themselves?" That was a mistake.
"Tell her to shut up," that same guy said, and all of a sudden I was sitting for four minutes straight, with 10 men staring at me. I remembered that I had children at home and that there was a limit to the risk I was prepared to take for an interview with Hyman, so I got up to leave. ...