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3	''Mossad 101'' (also known as ''Hamidrasha'') is an Israeli TV series from 2015, revovlving around a secret, uncoventional elite training course of special UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agents. The show stars Yehuda Levi as Yona Harari, a particularly [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] special agent, who has a problem with authority, traditions and rules, amongst many other things. Harari was put in charge of recruiting and training new agents after being involved with some sort of operational mishap in Bulgaria. He picks himself a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to train and filter out in unusual ways. Alongside Yonah, the course is lead by retired agent Simon, and his ex-wife, Avigail, a senior agent, stationed there to ensure he doesn't let things get out of hand.
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5	Second season, DarkerAndEdgier, takes part in Kiev, where Yona, together with three best trainees, leads his own investigation. Among the opponents, [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Islamic State]], drug dealers and moles. In order to achieve his goal, Yona creates an unlikely alliance with the [[KosherNostra notorious Israeli criminal Liron Hariri]], who seems more interested in killing Yona in [[YouKilledMyFather avenge for his father]]
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7	'''Due to the unpredictable nature of the show, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers will remain unmarked]].'''
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11	* BadassIsraeli: Most of the cast consists of UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} trainees, who as a rule, end up being well trained in combat and espionage, especially since military service is mandatory in Israel.
12	%%* BadassAdorable: Amy from the season two.
13	* BadassBookworm: Gilad. Excellent analytic, linguist, specialist in Arabic and Islamic culture, generally nerdy guy, who volunteered to infiltrate ISIS.
14	%%* BecomingTheMask: Abu Daud [[spoiler: former Israeli agent who went rogue]]
15	%%* BelligerentSexualTension: Yonah and Avigail, Irit and Giora. In Season 2: Yonah and Avigail (again), Avigail and Liron, Mitzi and Amy.
16	%%* ConsummateLiar: Yonah is explicitly training the cadets to become ones.
17	* CunningLinguist: Ya'acov - speaks Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic and English.
18	%%* DamselInDistress: Avigail in the end of the Season 1, then in Season 2.
19	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Several - Avigail, who puts major emphasis on the deadpan part, the Spector siblings, and Irit, the IntrepidReporter turned cadet.
20	%%* EmotionlessGirl: Avigail and Sveta, though they're both NotSoStoic. Katarina also fits.
21	%%* EnemyMine: Mossad operatives and Liron's men.
22	%%* FemmeFataleSpy: Katarina, down do a T. Sveta invokes this in a training mission.
23	%%* Foil: Avishai and Yacov are total opposites - TheFettered and TheUnfettered, TheSpock and the HotBlooded, tall and short... You name it.
24	%%* FunctionalAddict: Avishai, the psychologist, has a mysterious substance abuse problem. It's MS medicine.
25	%%* GuileHero: Most of the cadets, but mostly Doris.
26	%%* IcyBlueEyes: Avishai.
27	%%* InsufferableGenius: Hagai, the tech geek. It costs him his spot in the course.
28	%%* IntrepidReporter: Irit - she is cutthroat and is very good and getting people to open up to her.
29	* InUniverseNickname: Yonah calls Avigail Avi.
30	%%* JewishAndNerdy: Gilad. Intention to subvert this was the reason he joined the course in the first place.
31	* LackOfEmpathy: Avigail knowingly wrecks Sveta's marriage for the sake of training, and has no qualms sleeping with her married, older boss Micha.
32	%%* Manchild: the Spector brothers. Mitzi in the Season 2.
33	* MasterOfDisguise: Avital is an actor who is able to transform into any role. He handpicked by Yonah, but is eventually kicked out of training by Avigail, saying he is too irresponsible and fickle, just like Yonah himself.
34	* TheMole: Hanoch, who is planted in the course by Micha so he can find out more about what is going on there and effect it.
35	* NeverMessWithGranny: Doris may seem like a nice older lady, but she is very sharp and means business.
36	* TheNicknamer: Simon calls Sveta Moscow, Yaacov The Persian, Hanoch is Pilot or Flight attendant and Katerina is The Model.
37	* NonIdleRich: Giora made millions from online gambling, and decided to join the Mossad because he wanted to.
38	%%* NotSoStoic: Avishai and Sveta.
39	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Mossad cadets are comprised of various candidates from differing backgrounds, each with their own dysfunctions.
40	* RetiredBadass: Simon is a former Mossad field agent.
41	* SinkOrSwimMentor:
42	** Yona is somewhat ruthless towards his trainees, with the attitude that if they cannot handle the situation, they are not worthy of continuing their training. To this end, he is willing to put the trainees in potentially dangerous situations. Avigail is supposed to make sure that Yona's methods don't get out of control.
43	** Avigail herself shows minor shades of ruthlessness, inasmuch as she is even willing to ruin a trainee's marriage as part of the hazing.
44	%%* StraightGay: Tubi Miller, [[spoiler: Kotel]].
45	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Giora, the millionaire cadet, buys his way into success in missions.
46	%%* ThoseTwoGuys: The Spector brothers - Uri and Ziv. Also TheDividual (Twindividual, really).
47	* TheUnfettered: All of the Mossad supervisors are unscrupulous to a certain degree.
48	** Yonah is willing to seriously risk the life of the cadets in order to weed out the unqualified, and use wildly unethical means to spy on his ex wife and sabotage her work.
49	** Avigail is willing to sabotage a trainee's marriage in the name of teaching her a lesson about loyalty.
50	%%** Simon
51	%%** Micha

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