[GRADE A2 — DOJ-OGR-00022359]
Page 68 of Epstein's black book is organized under the heading "Israel" with seven sequential entries. Unlike most black book pages, which are organized alphabetically by surname, this page is organized geographically — by country. This organizational choice indicates that the person maintaining the address book categorized these contacts as "Israeli contacts" rather than filing them under individual names.
| # | Name | Phone(s) | Address | Numbers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elisa Eshed | Home: 00-972-25-666-156, Mobile: 00-972-53-830-540 | esheda@itc.mof.gov.il | — | 2 |
| 2 | Efrat Evani Duud | Phone: 00 9723 695569, Mobile: 00 972 51 522022 | efratd@intgov.il | — | 2 |
| 3 | Avi Gil | Phone: 00 972 66 311240 | — | — | 1 |
| 4 | Arik Gutman | Phone: 00-972-3-642-1649, Fax: 00 972 3 641 7830, Mobile: 00-972-50-335-786 | — | — | 3 |
| 5 | Jerusalem Hyatt | Phone: 00-972-2-533-1234 | — | — | 1 |
| 6 | Neima Yakhof | 8 numbers (see Part 3) | — | Hovevei Zion #8, Jerusalem | 8 |
| 7 | Ehud Olmert | Phone: 00 97 2 6296014, 00 97 2 2 6297997, 00972 (2) 229 6014 | — | — | 3 |
Total: 7 entries, 20 phone numbers, 2 government email addresses, 1 physical address.
The Israel page is unique in the black book for several reasons: (1) geographic rather than alphabetic organization; (2) two Israeli government email domains; (3) inclusion of a former Prime Minister; (4) inclusion of a hotel (suggesting regular travel to Jerusalem); and (5) total absence of every individual contact from the rest of the corpus.
[v3.0 UPDATE] The January 30, 2026 DOJ release of 3 million+ pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act has fundamentally transformed the evidentiary landscape. However, the Page 68 documentary silence persists: deep mining of 70,023 jmail emails, 31,000+ oversight documents, and the Neo4j graph (1,622 Israel-connected entities) confirms that all six individual Page 68 contacts remain textually absent from the entire corpus. This silence is now MORE analytically significant because the same corpus extensively documents other Israeli contacts — Benny Shabtai (52+ emails), Nicole Junkermann (56 emails), Yoni Koren (DOJ releases), and the Carbyne/Reporty investment chain (100+ emails). The Page 68 contacts represent a compartmentalized subset of Epstein's broader Israeli network.
WHAT THIS SHOWS AND DOES NOT SHOW: Epstein maintained a dedicated page of Israeli contacts including government officials. The geographic organization suggests these contacts were categorized by their function (Israeli access) rather than personal relationship. v3.0 confirms the corpus silence is not an artifact of limited data — it persists even with 70,023 additional emails searched. It does NOT establish the purpose of these contacts or the nature of any meetings.