Amazon is just days away from revealing a new book. The Israeli embassy already knows it. No spoilers can be possible for now. The cover and title bring together two completely different people who don't even know each other. The title itself is still a closely guarded secret. PJN had access to the content of the ten chapters of the publication, as well as the appendices that document each one point by point.

On November 28, 2022, the young French Jewish leader Ilan Cohen was the first signatory of a petition that 44 French students sent to the Portuguese Parliament. At the time, he was the coordinator of one of the synagogues of the Jewish Community of Porto. The students' petition—which was reported in the international Jewish press on the very day it was submitted—asked the Portuguese State never again to attack a Jewish community illegally, as it had done months earlier with the one in Porto, and never again to cooperate with the nocturnal burglars who robbed the president of SIRESP (Integrated System for Portugal's Security and Emergency Networks) and law offices in order to steal a server and computers, or with anonymous whistle-blowers who had spent time in psychiatric hospitals and had been convicted in criminal courts, in an attempt to incriminate innocent people. Cohen told the Jewish News Syndicate: "The discrimination of the Inquisition was not enough for them—they did not stop there!"

On November 29, 2022, a tire on Ilan Cohen's car was deliberately punctured so that it was on the verge of bursting while he was having dinner at a kosher restaurant in Porto. After dinner, he drove home on the highway, where speeds reached about 120 km/h, and "miraculously the tire did not burst," Cohen told The Portuguese Jewish News at the time. "While driving on the VCI (ring road), my car became difficult to control, and I was very lucky. I stopped and saw puncture marks on my tires." He also suspected that the attempt on his life had been carried out by "a criminal network to silence me through a fatal accident," since he had been studying in Porto for five years and this was the first time such a thing had happened.

Although Ilan Cohen filed a police report, he has received no news about the matter to this very day. The authorities have not even summoned him to be questioned as the complainant. Meanwhile, the damaged tire is on display at the Jewish Museum in Porto, in a room dedicated to modern antisemitism.

The book shows that strange as it may seem, the Ilan Cohen case did not arise in a vacuum. The new book begins with a multimillionaire usually portrayed in the press as an "oligarch." From December 2021, the political and media establishments united as never before and insisted that a new Portuguese was Russian, Russian, Russian, from a Russian, Russian, Russian family, dating back thousands of years. No one admitted that the person in question could have—as the nationality law stipulated—ancestors with Portuguese names.

They repeatedly punctuated their speeches with the word "Silva", a common Portuguese surname, in order to further mock the situation amid laughter and accusations of corruption: "Abramovich da Silva, ah, ah, ah!" However, the Portuguese family names in the target's ancestry were not one (Silva), but seven, with the additional fact that his surname itself had been recorded in Sephardic communities in the sixteenth century, shortly after the expulsions from Portugal and Spain.

Modern society demands transparency in principle—as a tool to fight corruption, hold power accountable, and build trust—yet rejects it in practice when it causes information overload, erodes institutional efficiency, or threatens personal privacy. The Jewish Community of Porto and Chabad of Lubavitch also like transparency, in the sense of leaving immortalized in history those who dare to combat Jewish life.

The new book not only shows how an entire power system trafficked favors amongst itself and mistreated a man who is a key figure in the success of Chabad Lubavitch in Eastern Europe and whose genealogy is documented and treated generation by generation. What is portrayed in the book sheds new light on a more complicated case, insofar as the power system deceived people with mental illness who, full of confidence, almost killed Ilan Cohen. To assume that this case will remain without consequences is to assume absurdity.