ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 explores the course taken by Madeleine Lucette Ferraille (1920–2000), who was born into a Roman Catholic family in France and converted to Judaism after the Second World War because of her identification with Zionism and with the fate of the Jews during the war (she changed her name to Ruth Ben-David after her conversion). In the early 1960s she was involved in the kidnapping of Yossele Schumacher, a seven-year-old boy, as part of her transformation into a radical anti-Israeli advocate. The chapter on Ruth Ben-David is largely based on her unpublished autobiography and includes some discoveries concerning the kidnapping, a saga that shook Israeli society during the early 1960s.
