Israel's Tony Soprano Yaakov Alperon (with permission from Don Borko) Excerpt from Israeli Mafia ep

When a car bomb took out Israeli Mafia Don Yaakov Alperon in 2008, it made headline news all over the world. Alperon was warring with Zeev The Wolf Rosenstein in a battle that saw all sorts of assassination attempts, including a hit squad from Belarus with a rocket launcher. Alperon had become something of a cultural icon, dubbed Israel's Tony Soprano in no small part due to his participation in a reality TV show. This is an except from the Car Bomb Wars of the Israeli Mafia episode. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON FOR BONUS EPISODES, SCRIPTS AND SOURCE LIST:   / theunderworldpodcast   LIKE AND COMMENT! MERCH: https://shop.podcastone.com/collectio... BONUS EPISODES PATREON:   / theunderworldpodcast   TWITTER:   / underworld_pod   INSTAGRAM:   / theunderworldpodcast   Subscribe to the Podcast to get episodes early: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5h1ezGf... Underworld is a podcast about organized crime around the world, by reporters Danny Gold and Sean Williams. From Balkan warlords to Brooklyn wiseguys, we’ll expose the barely-visible networks that affect everyone’s lives. Bringing our experience hunting some of the world’s most dangerous people, we’ll show how gangs fought to the top of their food chains - and how some got cut down to size.