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"B'nei Elohim? The  offspring of  God?  That name  was such  an arrogant presumption we thought it to be some disgusting variety of messianic  Christianity. Is it,  in fact, a  religious group, Seren Margolies? Are you member?"

"She is  not yet  one  of  us,  Commander," Jashen  chimed  in, speaking for the first time since helping  Judith bring Mengele to captivity, and speaking in Hebrew at that. "But our leader, Michael, believes Judith  definitely  promises  to qualify  for membership in the B'nei Elohim one day."

Gavish noted that for  an American  Jashen's command  of modern Hebrew was excellent, as though he were secretly  sabra. It was somewhat better, in fact than  Judith's grasp of  the language. She sounded as one  expected a British  citizen to  sound after speaking the revived Hebrew language for only twelve years.

Gavish asked, "And  what is  the nature  of your  B'nei Elohim, Jashen? Christian?  An offshoot  of Judaism?  Certainly orthodox Jews would have nothing to do with you."

"I would say we are more orthodox than even  the haredim. After all, sir, what  you think of as Judaism didn't  really come into existence  until after  the Third  Temple was  destroyed. But  I didn't come here to offend your religious sensibilities."

"Then why did you come here?"

"Because lately the B'nei Elohim have taken on the role of pest exterminators. The  low-level Nazis, the sadistic  prison guards of relatively low  rank who managed to worm their  way back into German society or even smuggle themselves overseas, we just hunt them down  and eliminate  them. No  one escapes,  because 'Never Again', right?  I tell you  this in  case you wonder  why Judith keeps missing reserve duty. She's got a higher calling. But back to  the Nazis!  The notorious  ones, the  unspeakably evil  ones responsible for  tens or hundreds  of thousands of  deaths, they don't get off as easy as a round  to the back of the head. So we bring them in, meaning here to  your headquarters in Tel Aviv. I was part  of the extraction team  for Mengele and I  was also on the team back in '51 for  Wagner. Judith knows all about it, she already reported  everything. It  turns out I  have a  knack for languages, and also I have some experience with undercover work. Michael tells me  I'm  impossible to  intimidate,  but that,  I think, is mostly a Kuwapi tribal thing. Michael also asked me to hang around with Judith for  this latest delivery  because even though he already gave this same speech to  your Prime Minister once before it didn't seem to sink in here at Mossad."