From Fauda to Yosi & The Angel, Top Mossad & Israeli Spy Movies and Series

“There’s a joke that anyone with a laptop in a Tel Aviv cafe must be writing a TV series,” Israeli producer Maya Fischer said.

Here are the shows everyone is talking about. 

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Munich Games (TV Series, Sky Atlantic) 

Munich Games is a thriller set 50 years after the Palestinian terror organization Black September Group attacked the Olympic Village, leaving 11 members of Israel’s team dead. To mark the anniversary, a friendly football match is set up between teams from Tel Aviv and Munich to symbolize a new era of reconciliation in Israeli-German relations. Oren Simon, a Mossad agent stationed in Berlin, intercepts a message in a dark web forum, however, just days before the game. He is partnered with Maria Köhler, a German State Criminal Police officer with Lebanese roots, to ensure that history does not repeat itself.

Find out more about the high-stakes thriller

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Fauda (TV series, Netflix)

Fauda revolves around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and star Lior Raz, the series co-writer and actor, who plays a former Special Forces soldier forced to confront his violent past. The New York Times rated Fauda the best international show of 2017 and it continues to get stronger every year.

Find out more about Fauda 

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Yosi, The Regretful Spy (Prime Video) 

A covert operative from Argentina infiltrates the Jewish community with the intention of collecting intelligence, unknowingly laying the foundation for future anti-Semitic terrorist acts. Several years later, he makes the decision to expose the truth. Yosi is based on a true story about José Pérez, who changed his first name to the Hebrew name Yosi, when he converted in 1988. Hewas sent undercover by the government to confirm an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Argentine Jews. A book about the story, has been turned into an Amazon TV series of the same name - and it’s a source of shock for his former rabbi. (Streaming in Spanish and English)

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Hit and Run (TV Series, Netflix)‍

Fauda creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz are also behind Hit and Run, a spine-tingling drama about a man searching for the truth behind his wife's death. Raz, who stars in the series, becomes caught up in a dangerous web of secrets and intrigue that stretches from New York to Tel Aviv.

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Tehran (TV series, Apple TV+, Netflix)

Niv Sultan stars as Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad hacker smuggled into Iran to help blow up a nuclear site. Tamar is barely out of the airport before she’s spotted by a former Army colleague and her mission must change. Haaretz newspaper describes Tehran as an 'estrogen-charged' suspense story that has more in common with the US spy series Homeland (also available on Netflix) than Fauda.

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Mossad spies, hackers, and villains are dominating our screens with shadowy thrillers from Fauda to Tehran, The Spy, and Mossad 101 but there are plenty more in production.