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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Gideon Raff
Gideon Raff is known for adapting The Spy Who Came From Israel, the book by Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat published in 2014, for television.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the TV series is better.
The Spy Who Came From Israel
Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat, 1967
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Gideon Raff, 2019
The exploits of Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy, 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. Cohen becomes a close confidant to the future president Amin al-Hafiz.