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Cohen resumes the operation and receives espionage equipment from his handlers in Zurich. En route to Syria, he befriends Sheik Majid al-Ard who unknowingly helps him enter the country. Cohen finds an apartment near the Second Bureau in Damascus.
Shimoni and the Mossad team are thrilled to have landed an agent in Damascus, as Cohen builds up his business cover. Using his import-export business as a front, he quickly begins to deliver valuable intel back to Israel.
Peleg is concerned about getting Cohen back alive as Peleg expresses remorse for a star agent he lost in Jordan, who had similar qualities to Cohen. He befriends Ma’azi Zaher al-Din, nephew of the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Army. Back in Israel, Nadia struggles with loneliness without Eli.
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The Spy is an English-language French espionage streaming television miniseries, written and directed by Israeli director Gideon Raff and Max Perry, based on the life of Israel’s top Mossad spy Eli Cohen, who is portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen.
The series is a production by French company Légende Entreprises for Canal+ and Netflix. OCS is airing the show in France and Netflix is streaming the show internationally outside France. The six-episode miniseries, released on September 6, 2019, on Netflix, was inspired by real-life events.
It is based on the book L’espion qui venait d’Israël (English: The Spy Who Came From Israel), written by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat.
The series has received “generally favorable reviews” according to Metacritic, with Baron Cohen’s performance being praised. However, the series has been criticized for lapses in historical accuracy.
There is no independent verification about whom Cohen met with in the Syrian elite while working undercover in Buenos Aires or Damascus. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, Baron Cohen received a nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
Sacha Baron Cohen is Eli Cohen’s first cousin’s husband’s first cousin once removed’s wife’s sister’s husband’s ex-wife’s first cousin’s ex-wife’s husband’s great niece’s husband’s brother.
The miniseries follows the exploits of Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy. The story takes place during the years leading to the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Syria. It follows Cohen’s past in Egypt as an army reject, to his infiltration of the Syrian Ministry of Defense. He assumes the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet and establishes himself in Syrian high society.
After having befriended people who would eventually take over Syria, Cohen is appointed as the country’s Deputy Defense Minister and becomes a close confidant to the future president Amin al-Hafiz.
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