Who is Ilya 'Goldman from Night Soldiers and what is their importance? Night_Soldiers English & Literature Ilya 'Goldman | Night Soldiers

Goldman is a Romanian Jew who has been recruited to be a Soviet agent and takes his training as part of Khristo's unit. Goldman does well in the NKVD, and rises in rank until he is assigned to Romania and takes pity on the people there. The Soviet Union NKVD has no room for pity, and reassigns the young officer to Siberia, where he has the thankless task of interviewing political prisoners. While at one such gulag he encounters Sascha, and a series of events are set in motion that cause Goldman to defect to the new state of Israel. There the reader learns he will be involved in the Israeli secret service, thus setting the stage for Goldman's character to be seen in any future novels regarding these night soldiers.