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Mossad in Popular Culture

• The House on Garibaldi Street - A 1979 movie starring Topol and Martin Balsam, about the Mossad operation in 1960, whereby the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured and brought to justice in Israel after 15 years in hiding in Argentina.

• The Impossible Spy - A 1987 movie starring John Shea and Eli Wallach (directed by Jim Goddard), about the executed Israeli master spy, Eli Cohen.

• The Man Who Captured Eichmann - A 1996 TV movie starring Robert Duvall and Jeffrey Tambor, that follows the same line as The House on Garibaldi Street.

• Munich - The movie is set after the 1972 Munich massacre and follows a Mossad squad, led by "Avner" (Eric Bana), which is ordered to track down and kill 11 Black September members thought to be responsible for the Israeli athletes' murders.

• Sword of Gideon - The original movie that follows the same line as Munich.

• Les patriotes - A French movie (1994) about Mossad.

• NCIS - Starting with the third season, NCIS added a character Ziva David, who is a Mossad officer attached to NCIS as a liaison officer. Her father is portrayed as the current director (deputy-director in season 3), and her half-brother was a Mossad agent undercover as a Hamas terrorist.

• The Point Men - 2001 movie starring Christopher Lambert.

• Walk on Water - The movie's main character is Eyal, a Mossad agent sent to locate a Nazi war criminal.

• The Little Drummer Girl - 1984 An American actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother. - IMDB

• The Constant Gardener - dialogue on spies:
  • Tessa Quayle: "I thought you spies knew everything, Tim?"
  • Tim Donohue: "Only God knows everything, and he works for Mossad."

• Lucky Number Slevin - The Bodyguards of the character named Fairy are ex-Israeli Mossad

• Spooks (UK TV Series) - Three 2006 episodes featured Mossad operations: first a 2-parter violent Black op takeover of a Saudi trade meeting in the guise of Al Qaeda terrorists (episodes 6 and 7), and an effort to execute members of an imaginary militant Christian organisation in the following episode.

• Triple (Book by Ken Follet) - The main character, Nat Dickstein, works for the Mossad performing a mission with the purpose of stealing 100 tons of uranium into Israel.