By SHIRA RUBIN | The Washington Post | Published: December 19, 2020
TEL AVIV (Tribune News Service) — After decades in the shadows, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, has been getting a lot of airtime, both on the news and in popular TV thrillers.
In real life, details of operations attributed to Israel are in the open like never before, including the theft two years ago of a trove of nuclear secrets from inside Iran, last summer's drive-by killing of al-Qaida's No. 2 in Tehran and the assassination last month of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
And on television, streaming hits like Apple TV Plus's "Tehran," Netflix's "The Spy" and Hulu's "False Flag" have starred the Mossad as a cold, ruthless and efficient machine.