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Hugo Rifkind

If you believe the internet, I was the Israeli army’s answer to Jason Bourne

10 December 2015

3:00 PM

10 December 2015

3:00 PM

One of the strangest and, in a weird way, best things to have happened to me in the past year was the emergence of a firm conviction among a quite large collection of internet weirdos that I spent my youth fighting for an elite unit of the Israeli army. It started after a boozy pre-Christmas lunch almost exactly a year ago, when a woman tweeted me.

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