His writing anticipated a Hamas attack on an Israeli kibbutzim and an Iranian strike from the skies, but former Mossad spy turned thriller author Mishka Ben-David is now concerned about what lies ahead.

Since the October 7 Hamas attack, one of 72-year-old Ben-David’s bestsellers has taken on an eerily prophetic tone.

Published in 2017, “The Shark” describes a deadly conflict that starts with a Hamas raid on a kibbutzim near the Gaza border and culminates in a devastating Israeli attack on Iran in retaliation.

The crisis is now “just a few steps” from the apocalyptic events envisioned in his book, Ben-David, the son of a Holocaust survivor, said calmly as he welcomed AFP to his home in the hills around Jerusalem.

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