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Mossad agents and GSS will guide actors in Hollywood | Israel Today

2021-01-21T18:34:33.801Z


| You should know For the first time, an agency was established that unites veterans of security and intelligence in Israel and around the world. • Behind the initiative - a veteran institutional agent • The body provides consulting services around the globe Agencies of film actors, athletes or models are a well-known and common thing, but recently, a completely different type of agency was established for the fi


For the first time, an agency was established that unites veterans of security and intelligence in Israel and around the world. • Behind the initiative - a veteran institutional agent • The body provides consulting services around the globe

Agencies of film actors, athletes or models are a well-known and common thing, but recently, a completely different type of agency was established for the first time - an agency for Mossad personnel, the GSS and other security and intelligence arms - in Israel and around the world. Directors and producers of spy movies.

"Shortly after the Corona crisis broke out, I had the idea to set up the agency," Avner Avraham, who served as an Mossad agent for 28 years, told Israel Today, telling how he began recruiting people. "I have many connections in Israel and around the world." To the world of security and espionage, and they joined me. "

The agency, named "SPYLEGENDS", brings together many Mossad retirees, the Shin Bet, the IDF and many police officers, such as former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Perry, retired deputy head of the Mossad Ilan Mizrahi, Mossad officials Yola Reitman and Mishka Ben-David (Res.) Matan Vilnai and more.

Also, members of the agency are also senior members of the overseas security forces such as former CIA man Robert Barr.

Avraham, 54, who at the end of his service at the institution founded the organization's museum and served as its director, served as the chief adviser on Mossad affairs in the film "Operation Finale," starring Ben Kingsley, which depicts the capture of Adolf Eichmann.

Now as part of the agency he set up alongside Nof (28) who serves as CEO, he is also taking advantage of his connections in Hollywood.

"I was approached several times with offers from film and series productions after encountering the agency's website," he says, "in order to connect them with the right people who will advise them and help them stick to details and look professional and reliable on screen as well."

He said he could not disclose which films were involved, "there are already ready-made films and those that are in the process of being prepared. We have signed confidentiality so I cannot disclose them," he says with a proper smile to those who have specialized throughout his security service in keeping secrets.

At the same time, it is important for him to emphasize that in addition to advising and accompanying productions in Hollywood, the team of people he recruited to the agency provides additional services.

"We give lectures in Israel and abroad, hold exhibitions, advise spy museums and commercial companies, promote the legacy of the Holocaust and Zionism, sell series of lectures to Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and we even started working with a gadget store in the field of espionage in the United States."

Along with the security and espionage people, the agency also includes journalists, writers, screenwriters, actors and even family members and other figures associated with this world.

"Avraham Cohen, who is the son of the late hero of the Mossad, Eli Cohen, is also a lecturer within our framework.

"Like him, Michelle Bennett, the daughter of the late Mossad fighter Max Bennett who committed suicide in a prison in Egypt, or Yossi (Yossele) forgets an acquaintance who was abducted as a child by his grandfather to New York and was returned by the Mossad at Ben - Gurion's request."

The agency closes the terms of the contract between those represented in it and the various customers and charges a fee from the amount of the transaction, which can sometimes amount to an interview with the media.

"Networks around the world turn to us to take care of security interviewees and we have a variety of interviewees to offer."

Beyond consulting, the agency also helps to create films out of nowhere all over the world, even in countries that until recently did not have diplomatic ties with Israel.

"I was recently approached by a writer from Venezuela who fled to Mexico. He wrote a book about the Jews who hid their Judaism in Venezuela and asked us to help him turn it into a movie, so we contacted Hollywood officials and it started rolling. We have many channels and in different languages ​​such as Hebrew, English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and even Yiddish. "



Source: israelhayom

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