The Underground Engineer

<p>The untold story of Jenka Ratner-brilliant inventor fearless resistance fighter and the founding father of Israel's defense industry.</p><p>Long before the world knew the name Iron Dome and before Rafael became a global symbol of technological defense there was one man whose vision made it all possible: Colonel Evgeni Jenka Ratner.</p><p>Born in 1909 to Russian Jewish revolutionaries and raised in the chaos of war Jenka arrived in Palestine a wild headstrong boy with an unmatched mind for engineering-and a passion for resistance. By day he worked for the British-owned IPC refineries. By night he built weapons for the underground Haganah intent on sabotaging the very empire he served.</p><p>Then came World War II. The British Navy unaware of his double life recruited him to lead a secret team in England that would develop one of the war's most decisive anti-submarine weapons: the SQUID mortar. When the war ended he faked illness to escape their grip and return home.</p><p>In Tel Aviv under the guise of an art studio he established the Science Corps-a covert research unit that would evolve into Rafael. From its shadowy origins Jenka trained a new generation of defense engineers-known as Jenka's Boys-and developed weapons systems still shrouded in secrecy today.</p><p>Told with the pace of a spy thriller and the sweep of a historical epic The Underground Engineer is a dramatic true story of a forgotten hero an inventor who fought for freedom founded an entire defense industry and whose impact is still felt in every interception system guarding Israel's skies.</p><p></p>