Michelle Mazel

French born Michelle Mazel is a graduate of the Institute for Political Science of Paris and of the Law school of that city and was a Fullbright scholar to the United States. She married an Israeli diplomat and for forty years, until he retired in 2004, she went with him from one interesting country to another, witnessing Sadat's assassination live in Cairo and the fall of Ceausescu in Rumania. "Wife to the ambassador" and "Dancing with the ambassador" only available in Hebrew so far, tell the tale of those turbulent years. She took to writing, becoming a frequent contributor to "The Jerusalem Post" and to the now defunct "Israel Scene" magazine. She has taken part in a number of collective works such as the Macmillan illustrated dictionary and concordance of the Bible and the Grolier Holocaust encyclopedia. She is a regular contributor to the Jewish Political Study Review. Her first thriller, "The Jericho Enigma" introducing inspector Alfassi was originally published in Hebrew and in French and is now available in English on Amazon Kindle. It was followed by the second Alfassi thriller, "Sirens over Jerusalem" and the third and last one, The Sheikh from Hebron" both available on Amazon Kindle. The Alfassi trilogy is available in French on Amazon.fr. In 2017 she published "Julius Matthias, a pact with the devil" a sweeping saga of love and tragedy in Transylvania through two world wars. Translated and published in Romanian, the book was awarded the Scrisul Romanesc prize on October 6, 2016