Washington Examiner / Magazine
October 8, 2019 Issue
October 8, 2019 Print Edition
Cover Story
Mossad’s moment
The Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, is in foreign territory in more ways than one. One of the world's most secretive organizations is a genuine pop culture phenomenon. In recent years, Israel's intelligence operatives have been the subject of bestselling books, movies, and shows, receiving precisely what spies seek to avoid: attention. As the journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman note in their 2014 book, Spies Against Armageddon: "Just as the Statue of Liberty and McDonald's became snappy synonyms for America, 'Mossad' has become an internationally recognized Israeli brand name." And so it has. At the moment, Netflix alone has more than a half-dozen shows and movies on Israeli spies, some of them — namely The Red Sea Diving Resort starring Chris Evans and The Spy with Sacha Baron Cohen — attracting big names from Hollywood....

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