Victor Ostrovsky
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| Born |
28 November 1949 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer, gallerist, painter, entrepreneur |
| Nationality | Canadian/American/Israeli |
| Notable works | By Way of Deception, Universal Soldier: Regeneration |
| Spouse | Bella Ostrovsky |
| Children | Leeorah, Sharone |
Victor John Ostrovsky is an author and a former katsa (case officer) for the Israeli Mossad (foreign intelligence service). He authored two non-fiction books about his service with the Mossad: By Way of Deception, a New York Times No. 1 bestseller in 1990, and The Other Side of Deception several years later.
Victor Ostrovsky was born in Edmonton, Alberta on November 28, 1949, and moved to Israel at the age of five.
His mother, a gymnastics teacher by trade, was born in Mandatory Palestine. She volunteered with the British Army (ITS) during World War II, and drove trucks across the desert from Cairo to Jerusalem. After the war, she joined the Haganah (Israel's underground) to fight for Israel's independence from the British mandate.
Ostrovsky’s father served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II as a tail gunner on a Lancaster bomber, taking part in more than twenty missions over Germany. His plane was shot down over Germany, but he managed to escape and return to active service. After the war, he joined the Israeli military to fight in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, rising to command Sde Dov, an Air Force base in Israel.
His grandparents, Haim and Esther Margolin, settled in Palestine in 1912 after fleeing Russia, and Haim later served as Auditor General of the Jewish National Fund (JNF).
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