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Nadia talks with an official at the Syrian embassy in Paris after travelling there with Peleg to plead for Cohen’s life. Months earlier, Cohen makes a secret visit home and meets his children for the first time. Eli’s brother Maurice pleads for Eli to quit and stay home.
Cohen struggles with returning to civilian life in Israel, the anxiety of managing his contrasting dual personalities and the possibility that he will have to return to Syria for an indefinite period.
A high level Prime Ministerial meeting with the Ministry of Defense and Mossad discuss a plan to attack Syria’s water diversion operation and discuss the benefits of having an agent as Deputy Minister of Defense.
Returning to Syria, he accepts the position as Deputy Minister of Defense, but aided by Soviet counterespionage Suidani catches Cohen in the act of sending messages to Israel. Despite international pleas for leniency, he is publicly executed in Marjeh Square. Pre-credit scene text suggests Cohen’s intelligence helped shorten the Six Day War in 1967.
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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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