I read this book, but it's not very authentic:
In the early '70's, Lansky moved to Israel and applied for citizenship--partly to get away from the Justice Department, partly because he had always been a strong supporter of Israel. Under Israel's Law of Return, any Jew of "good character" can become a citizen upon application. But Lansky was notorious, and he had served a short (three-month) jail term for a gambling offense. So his case had to be reviewed by the government.
To help his cause, Lansky cultivated Uri Dan, one of Israel's most respected journalists. He gave Dan "exclusive" interviews on his "life story"--something Lansky had never done before. Dan was so gaga about his "exclusives" that he swallowed everything Lansky told him--including some fictions that are so outrageous that I can only conclude that Lansky was having fun with the guy. For example:
--Lansky said that Abner (Longy) Zwillman, one of the biggest rumrunners during Prohibition and the major gambling czar afterward, "was a member of my gang when we were kids." That's a pretty good trick, considering that Zwillman lived in Newark, NJ, and it would have taken him more than two hours of commuting each way to run with Lansky's gang on the Lower East Side of NYC before the Hudson River tunnels and bridges were opened.
--Lansky said that Bugsy Siegel "sheltered Al Capone in his [Siegel's] house on 14th Street" when Capone was on the run from an Irish gang called the White Handers, and arranged for Capone's passage to Chicago. "So we always had Capone as our ally," Lansky told Dan. Yeah, right. Siegel was born on February 28th, 1906. Capone left Brooklyn for Chicago in 1919--when Siegel was all of 13 years old. Pretty good stunt for an adolescent. Probably Lansky and Siegel met Capone for the first time at the famous Atlantic City gangsters' convention in 1929.
The denouement of Lansky's Israel quest: The Justice Department leaned on the Israeli Government, which denied Lansky's application for citizenship and made him leave when his visa expired. He tried to emigrate to Paraguay, but was turned away, and was arrested when he returned to Miami International Airport (shades of GFII). But, unlike Roth, he wasn't gunned down. The government tried him on trumped up charges of "drug smuggling" (he had gone through customers with an ulcer medication for which he didn't have a prescription) and tax evasion. Lansky was acquitted of all charges. He died peacefully at 81.
The definitive Lansky bio is "Little Man--Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life," by Robert Lacey. SC posted on it in this thread.