Gerald Teppler was your run of the mill multimillionaire Jewish Exchange trader. Along with his Irish Catholic partner Richard Crossland, he had piled speculative success upon success in the form of the Jericho Trading Company.

Then, it all changed during three weeks in October, when he was approached by an Exchange trader “from abroad”.

The JERUSALEM EXCHANGE combines the feverish action of the Chicago trading pits with an assault on a man’s cultural identity, all blending into matters of survival.

Ron Lev, once a practicing trial lawyer, has been an on and off member of the large future exchanges in Chicago and New York. He has residences in both Chicago and Tel Aviv, Israel.