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21 " His sense of humor was self-deprecating. “When they make the movie about Gabriel,” he said with his inscrutable smile, “please ask them to make me taller.” General Doron Almog and his beautiful wife, Didi, always open their home to us when we come to Israel and, like Chiara and Gilah Shamron, they prepare far more food than we can possibly eat. I did not know Doron when I created Gabriel’s physical appearance, but surely he was the mold upon which my character was based. One never quite knows who might show up at Doron’s dinner table. Late "
― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)
22 " a visiting congressman from Ohio. Inspired by the "
23 " Its crime-ridden public housing estates—in France they were known as HLMs, or habitation à loyer modéré—were "
24 " A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz.” “Very "
25 " The Saudis are more afraid of Iran than they are of ISIS. Iran is Shiite. And ISIS, for all its evil, is Sunni.” “And "
26 " The Saudis are more afraid of Iran than they are of ISIS. Iran is Shiite. And ISIS, for all its evil, is Sunni.” “And from the Saudi perspective,” continued Natalie, “a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon. "
27 " noteworthy "
28 " A proper cover was like a shield. The typical undercover Office field agent spent far more time maintaining his cover than actually gathering intelligence. Cover, they told her, was everything. During "
29 " Safia Bourihane sat alone, her thumb on her detonator, her eyes on her watch. Carter raised the phone to his ear and again ordered Mikhail to leave the restaurant at once. Gabriel still couldn’t "
30 " Marriott. "
31 " Natalie and Safia had never gone to L.L.Bean. 57 THE WHITE "
32 " Take the operation, Gabriel—for Hannah Weinberg, if for no other reason. Get inside the network. Find out who Saladin really is and where he’s operating. And then put him down before another bomb explodes.” Gabriel "
33 " weighty ashlars of the Western Wall. "
34 " proscribed "
35 " the Office is in Tel Aviv. "