His family never knew what happened to him, but seven decades after Israel Bristman was killed in a Russian forest fighting the Nazis, his grandson and namesake received an unexpected call informing him that remains had been found.

A. was losing the fight for custody over his children at the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court until Rabbi Saar Mizrachi, a clerk at the court, offered to help him – in return for thousands of shekels in bribes. A. had no choice but to pay, until he had enough, recorded his incriminating conversations with another clerk, Yaakov Sebag, and turned to the police.