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Here is a fictional, but not imaginary, scenario: After being destroyed by a disaster, a dystopian city-state rises from the ruins of Tel Aviv, led by a small, corrupt cult that controls the ignorant masses through technology and drugs in the name of messianism and holiness. Writing, reading, and learning are forbidden, art is abolished, and truth is handed down only by the supreme ruler. This is Melchizedek.

Joe Isaac is one of the "professionals," a growing middle class of debt collectors and enforcers entrusted with carrying out the will of the government. When a series of crimes in Melchizedek undermines the existing order in the city and his world, Isaac is forced to embark on a journey that will confront him with his past and force him to uncover his city's darkest secrets.

In a sober hybrid between the familiar realistic space and plot possibilities that are surprising, threatening, and humorous at the same time, Yishai Weissman creates a dystopia that brings together Tel Aviv and the primordial flood on the one hand, and the dark future on the other, and through it paints a grotesque world picture of the Israeli apocalypse.