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| - Eli David (אלי דוד) was the Director of Mossad as well as the father of former Mossad officer-turned-NCIS Special Agent Ziva David, double agent and terrorist Ari Haswari and Tali David up until his murder in January 2013.
- A Mossad Officer, Eli was sent by his masters as a doctor in the Gaza Strip and befriended an Arab woman named Hasmina Haswari, for the sole purpose of having a son. He needed a boy with the right ethnicity to infiltrate Al Qaeda. Of their union was born a son, Ari. Planning to turn his son into a mole in Hamas, he sent Ari to Edinburgh Medical School so that he could become a doctor and work in the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip with his mother. However, Hasmina was killed in an Israeli retalitory strike, and as a result Ari developed a deep hatred for his father. Ari accepted to join Mossad as an undercover operative in Hamas and Al-Qaeda. What Eli didn't see was that Ari had seen through his scheme and was planning to get his revenge. During his time as a field officer, Eli met and worked with NCIS Special Agent and later Director Leon Vance. The two men became close friends. Later, Eli started to rise through the ranks of Mossad until he reached the position of Deputy Director. He married an Israeli woman and thay had two daughters, Ziva and Talia. Ziva joined Mossad and Talia was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing at the age of sixteen. Eli raised Ziva as a killer, despite her mother's attempt to make sure that neither Ziva or Talia became killers like their father, claiming that it was for her to give a future to his grandchildren. However, similar to Ari, he planned to use her skills to protect Israel even at the cost of his daughter's life. When Eli realized that Ari was slipping out of his control, Ziva became his control officer, believing that he was innocent of the accusations and hoping to protect him. However, Ari was planning a major terrorist attack against Israel so he could have his revenge against Eli for the death of his mother. Upon realizing that Ari had gone completely rogue, Eli ordered Ziva to kill him and, according to Vance, gain NCIS Special Agent Gibbs's trust. When Ari was killed, Eli reluctantly assigned Ziva to the newly-created Mossad Liaison Officer position at NCIS. When she started to evade him and refer only to the Mossad Officer-in-Charge in America, he ordered a team of agents to keep an eye on her. At the end of Season Five, Ziva's position as Liaison Officer was terminated by Eli's old friend Leon Vance and she returned to Mossad. To insure that Ziva would remain his agent, Eli ordered Mossad Officer Michael Rivkin to seduce her in hopes to push her to maintain her loyalty to him and Mossad. After an operation which helped NCIS find a mole in their organization, Eli reassigned Ziva to NCIS at the request of Director Vance. In Episode:Legend (Part 1) and Episode:Legend (Part 2), Eli played a more promising role. He assigned Michael Rivkin to go to Los Angeles and infiltrate a terrorist cell that was working for Saleem Ulman, who had killed one of Eli's Officers. Desperate for revenge, Eli ordered Rivkin to find Saleem's location and destroy him and his organization. Rivkin was caught by NCIS's Office of Special Projects in Los Angeles (where NCIS's MCRT team was working a joint investigation) and was forced out of the country before he could recover the intel he needed. However, Rivkin was able to kill all of the cell members except for the cell's leader. Eli gave Rivkin a cover as a rogue officer and sent him back to the US. There, Rivkin killed the cell leader and recovered the intel which he passed to Ziva. However, he accidentally killed an ICE agent when spying on an American intelligence summit at the Secretary of the Navy's house. While investigating the ICE agent's death, NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo discovered that Rivkin was the killer and attempted to arrest him. When he resisted arrest, DiNozzo killed him in self-defense. Eli called Ziva back to Israel, and she came with Director Vance, Gibbs and DiNozzo in tow. Eli interrogated DiNozzo and tried to make him admit that he had killed Rivkin out of jealousy. However, Eli had underestimated Tony, and Eli was forced to reveal that he had sent Rivkin back to the US with orders to seduce Ziva. During a meeting with Vance, Eli told him about Saleem and his plans. It was there in Israel that Eli confronted Ziva about her loyalties, and encouraged her to "make this [her] aliyah" and return to Mossad. Ziva resigned her Liaison position and took Rivkin's place on the Kidon Unit to try and stop Saleem Ulman. After Ziva was captured, Eli ordered a mobilisation of Mossad Officers in Somalia, but to what end is unknown. Ziva was held prisoner by Saleem Ulman for several months and was tortured for information regarding NCIS but was later saved by Gibbs and his team. Upon returning to America, Ziva resigned from Mossad and applied to join NCIS as a true special agent. Not wanting to lose his best agent and daughter, Eli sent Officer Ben-Gidon to the US to frame Ziva for the death of a USMC Sergeant who had helped Mossad earlier in the hunt for Saleem, in hopes that she would have no choice but to return to Mossad. Luckily, Gibbs and Vance managed to expose the frame and sent Ben-Gidon back to Israel with a message for Eli: "She's off limits". Finally realizing the truth and seeing what kind of a ruthless man her father was, as well as the lengths he was willing to go to keep her, and believing that he had abandoned her in the desert, Ziva turned her back on him. She severed her ties to him, saying,"Eli is all but dead to me." In the episode Spider and the Fly (episode), Eli sends Vance a text message that says: "I found him." When Eli came to DC for a conference held by NCIS Director Vance, in Enemies Foreign (episode), he is almost killed several times by a Palestinian terrorist group. Meanwhile, he and Ziva argued over Eli's previous actions. Eli, Vance and Eli's bodyguard, Officer Hadar, ended up in an explosion in an NCIS safe house; the only reason why Eli and Vance survived the blast was because the bomb used was exactly the same as the bombs the two made together while in Amsterdam in the 1990s. Hadar died instantly, Vance ended up in the hospital, and Eli escaped with only minor injuries. In the following episode, Enemies Domestic (episode), Eli recalled his part in NIS Operation Trident in 1991, being the cause of the explosion. It is revealed that NCIS Special Agent Riley McCallister was trying to kill Vance out of jealousy. Eli and Ziva had a surprisingly heartfelt make up before Eli returns to Israel at the end of the episode. In the Season 10 premiere Extreme Prejudice (episode), Eli did not physically appear, but his voice was heard over the phone when he called Ziva to make sure she was okay after the bombing of the NCIS headquarters by Harper Dearing, and offers to help catch him. In Shabbat Shalom (episode), Eli returned to Washington D.C. (without back-up or a security team and without anyone knowing where he was) in hopes of repairing his strained relationship with Ziva, in part by working toward a plan for peace between Israel and Palestine. However, Ziva was not convinced that his intentions were pure, and was angered when she found out that he had killed a journalist who saw him arrive at the airport. The two were invited by Director Vance to have Shabbat dinner at his home, but Ziva was angered by something Eli said and got up to leave. Seconds later, machine gunfire blasted through the house. Ziva instinctively left to pursue the shooter, who ultimately poisoned himself to death before he could be arrested. When she returned back to the Vance home, it was revealed that Eli had died while she was gone, leaving her devastated. Jackie Vance was also hit by gunfire, but did not die until she was at the hospital in the operating room. Because of the turmoil that would ensue in the Middle East and Israel had Eli's death occurred, the NCIS was also supplied with Presidential orders to investigate the circumstances behind the hit within 48 hours and keep Eli's death a secret until they found out who killed him. The person was later revealed to be Mossad deputy director Ilan Bodnar, who wanted to take over Mossad with the motivation of instigating a conflict between Israel and Iran.
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