Eli Amiram is an agent with Mossad.
We get two interesting examples immediately that Amiram, though a very good and seasoned operative, is still quite human. The first is when he is forced to ride the bus to work as his girlfriend was using their car. He spots a woman he was certain was about to blow up the bus and herself and others with it. He stepped in to prevent that and found he was in error. He was a tad chagrin over the mistake but not about having taken the action. The second is when he arrives at Mossad HQ and is walking past a coffee cafe serving several attractive young women. Without thinking about it, he instinctively sucked in his stomach. Amiram is definitely a normal male.
It is probable that his wife would agree, albeit likely with a smile. Amiram has been married for some time to a noted psychologist, considered by many to be the leading expert in PTSD in Israel.
Amiram's job in the Office, as he and his fellow operatives referred to Mossad, is as a handler, or as Amiram calls it, a spy-runner. It is his role to seek out potential sources of intelligence, investigate them for the best ways to approach, and then to woo them into betraying their own country or organization to provide Mossad with information useful to Israel's defense. He is said to be Mossad's "most accomplished" in such things.
Most of the work that we follow Amiram doing is in keeping with his handler work but there are a couple of occasions when we see that Amiram is not at all adverse to mixing it up when needed, an example being when a belligerent drunk gets very unruly on a London subway and accosts a Moslem woman - what Amiram does in just a few seconds shows how getting on his bad side is not a good idea. - the drunk lives to think of his actions but is in considerable distress while doing so.
Good Lines:
- Thoughts of Eli Amiram - "The CIA and FBI loved their polygraphs, the Brits relied on regular vetting panels, and Mossad had their shrinks; platoons, brigades, whole armies of them.