Who is Teddy Laskov from By the Rivers of Babylon and what is their importance?

Teddy Laskovis a brigadier general in the Israeli Air Force, Laskov is as pessimistic about the upcoming conference as Bernstein is optimistic. A former Captain in the Red Air Force, he returned from a mission to his village to find most of his family dead in what the government claimed a civil disturbance. Laskov realized that a Jew was a Jew, no matter which part of Russia you lived in. Before fleeing to Jerusalem, Laskov bombed a camp of his own army. In Jerusalem he joined the Haganah Air Force.