בתוך המוסד AKA Inside The Mossad - pretty in-depth (not just on the history, or the tradecraft, but also on the philosophical underpinnings) four-part documentary on Israel's intelligence agency.
Dense with talking head interviews with former and serving officers, including ex-directors Zvi Zamir (1968-1974), Dani Yatom (1996-86) and Efraim Halevy (1998-2002, topping off a career begun in 1961); current Deputy Director Ram Ben Barak; key department heads like Avi Dagan (past Head of Recruitment and later ‘Tzomet’, or Collections), Rafi Eitan (Ops Chief or Head of Caeserea 1950-81), David Meidan (Head of the ‘TEVEL’ Political Action & Liaison Division in the 1990s), David Arbel (Head of Europe Division), Rami Igra (Head of the Captured & Missing Division until 1999), Uzi Arad (Research Division); one-time Station Chiefs like Yair Ravid-Ravitz (Beirut) and Eliezer Tsafrir (Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran and Lebanon); various participants in the 1984 Operation Moses, like Danny Limor, Gad Shimron, Yula Reitman and David Ben Uziel, who had been a teenage veteran of the Irgun, and was later a member of a tiny team assisting the Christian rebellion in Southern Sudan in the early 1970s; plus numerous career and case officers like Mishka Ben David, Yossi Alpher and ‘Tamar’.
I find about one show a year that I think is really good, and Russian Doll is this year's.
