From the kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to the raid on Entebbe, Mossad's operations have been the backbone of many Hollywood films, but behind the blockbusters lies a world of intrigue, danger, and high-stakes espionage.

The following films will ignite your fuse.

"The Impossible Spy" () is adapted from the true story of Israeli hero Eli Cohen.

The film "The Impossible Spy" and the subsequent series "Spy" (starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Eli Cohen) are both based on true stories, detailing the recruitment of an Israeli civilian into Mossad, his transformation into a spy in Damascus, and his infiltration into the Syrian political sphere.

This Israeli officer infiltrated Syria, serving as a double agent, and carried out a dangerous, multi-year mission to relay Syria's secrets to the Israeli government.

The secrets stolen by Eli Cohen were crucial to Israel's victory in the Six-Day War.

"Operation Finale" (year), based on the Mossad's capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann

"Operation Finale" is directed by Chris Weitz, starring Ben Kingsley, and is adapted from the operation in the 1960s where Mossad and the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him back to Israel for trial.

Former Mossad officer and historian Avner Avraham served as a consultant for the film, organizing a Mossad artifact tour exhibition that unveiled a Mossad evacuation operation that nearly failed at the last moment due to an error in forged documents.

"Debt" () Based on Two Operations by Mossad

The Anglo-American film "Blood Debt" is set in a certain year, when Mossad agent Rachel Singer (played by Jessica Chastain) and two comrades are carrying out a secret mission to capture a Nazi war criminal known as the Birkenau Surgeon.

About a year later, the seemingly dead man reappeared.

"Blood Debt" is roughly based on the pursuit of Adolf Eichmann and another Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele. Mengele was a doctor and a member of the SS who conducted deadly experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp.

"Munich" (year), inspired by "God's Wrath"

Although "Munich" is a fictional film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics, its inspiration comes from the bloody real-life event and a Mossad operation known as "Operation Wrath of God" (also called Operation Bayonet).

The purpose of the operation was to assassinate individuals associated with the Munich massacre, namely a Palestinian organization known as "Black September."

The operation was approved by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and reportedly lasted for several years.

In a notorious incident that occurred in the year , the "Lillehammer Incident" took place in Norway, where a Mossad team mistakenly targeted Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchiki while he was walking home.

The Canadian film "Sword of Gideon" (year) is also adapted from "Rage of God".

Operation Entebbe (Year) Inspired by Entebbe

In "Raid on Entebbe," Brigadier General Dan Shomron (played by Charles Bronson) and Israeli official Yitzhak Rabin (played by Peter Finch) devise a plan to rescue hostages taken on a hijacked Air France flight.

Terrorists hope to reach a prisoner exchange agreement with Israel.

In the real-life Operation Entebbe, the Israel Defense Forces () conducted a daring counter-terrorism hostage rescue mission at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in , based on Mossad intelligence, rescuing hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers, primarily Israeli nationals.

According to reports, an Israeli soldier and three hostages were lost, while all seven armed militants were killed.

The film "Thunderbolt Operation" (year) was also inspired by these events.

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"Keaton" is an unexpected spy action comedy inspired by the 2010 assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai—a murder long associated with Mossad.

Four assassins waited in his hotel room for Mabhouh to return from a business meeting. The Dubai police chief stated that he % even % certain that Mossad was behind the assassination. Details of the assassination operation, dubbed "Operation Plasma Screen," have gradually emerged, with intelligence fragments leaking over the past decade.

The Red Sea Diving Resort () was inspired by the Mossad operation brothers and Moses.

The film "Red Sea Diving Resort" directed by Chris Evans, seemingly unbelievable, is adapted from the real-life Operation Brothers of the Mossad and the daring Red Sea rescue operation conducted in the northeastern Sudan in the 1980s.

Mossad rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews who fled to Sudan to escape war. However, Sudan, a country dominated by Arabs, was highly hostile to Jews, especially foreign agents.

Former Mossad officer Gad Shimron risks arrest, beating, or gunfire as he shares his incredible experiences on the podcast "Brotherhood Operation."

《爱国者》(The Patriot)

This film, directed by French filmmaker Éric Rochant, tells the story of a French Jew recruited by Mossad at the age of 27.

Ariel Brenner left Paris with his family to live in Israel, but his first mission was to return to France to steal atomic secrets.

The film and its plot are largely based on the Operation Opera (also known as Operation Babylon), when Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, as well as the story of former Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned for selling thousands of documents related to U.S. espionage activities (primarily in Arab countries) to Israel.

"Angels" () inspired by "Operation Tanegol"

"The Angel" is a fictional biography of Ashraf Marwan, a high-ranking Egyptian official who became a double agent to help achieve peace with Israel.

The inspiration for the series comes from the non-fiction work "The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel," which tells the story of the life and death of Marwan, the son-in-law of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who spied for Mossad under the codename "The Angel."

He alerted Mossad before the Egyptian-Syrian joint attack on Yom Kippur, saving Israel from defeat.

Marwan had been evading Egyptian agents for years, but in [year], his body was found in the garden of his London apartment. The police suspected murder.

"The Belgian Air Hijacking Incident" (), a documentary adapted from the real-life Belgian air hijacking event.

On the date of year month day, a Boeing 707 aircraft of Belgian Airlines, en route from Vienna to Tel Aviv, was hijacked after flying for 10 minutes.

A team of commandos, including the future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stormed an aircraft at Tel Aviv airport, successfully rescuing it from the hijackers of "Black September."

Surviving hijacker Teresa Halbach and director Nati Dinur revisit this extraordinary event in the documentary, which recounts how Halbach and her accomplices threatened passengers and crew members with guns.

A few weeks after the hijacking incident, "Black September" became infamous for its connection to the murder of Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich a few weeks later.

"The Little Drummer Girl" (year) was inspired by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Diane Keaton's "Little Drummer Girl" and the series starring Florence Pugh are adaptations of John le Carré's 1983 spy novel of the same name.

The story revolves around a pro-Palestinian American actress who is recruited to play an Israeli agent caught in the world of terrorists.

Although the plot of the story is fictional, the background is based on the author's first encounter with Israel, as he described to the Jewish World Review that the visit left him "thrilled."

Le Carré met with many people from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including PLO leader Yasser Arafat, who, as reported, placed the author's hand on his chest so he could feel "the heart of the Palestinian people."

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