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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hassam Ghancy

Hassam Ghancy appears in The Spy, the television adaptation of the book by Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat The Spy Who Came From Israel, first published in 1967.
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. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 1967 book, The Spy Who Came From Israel
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The Spy Who Came From Israel
Uri Dan, Yeshayahu Ben Porat, 1967
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The Spy
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.