43 minSeason 2 • Episode 12
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Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
Acting
Yehuda Levi's terrifyingly controlled Yonna
Direction
Atmospheric compound claustrophobia
Writing
Training exercises that expose character, not teach skills
Creators
Daniel Syrkin, Izhar Harlev, Uri Levron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Mossad reportedly keeps HaMidrasha's actual location classified; the show filmed at a repurposed army base with consultants who wouldn't confirm or deny anything.
Creator Uri Levron served in Israeli intelligence and has said Yonna is partially based on a real instructor known for 'breaking people to rebuild them'—the network made him soften early episodes.
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