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Cote De Pablo (A.K.A. Ziva David)
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Officer Ziva David is a Mossad agent from Israel sent to NCIS following the murder of Special Agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad operative named Ari Haswari. She was Ari's control officer and half-sister; they shared the same father, who was the Deputy Director of Mossad (he has since been promoted to Director). During the episode "Kill Ari (Part 2)", NCIS Special Agent Gibbs is cornered by Ari, but then Ziva emerges and kills Ari. After Ari's death, she asked to be assigned as a liaison for Mossad at NCIS, where she subsequently joined Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs' team, even though Gibbs opposed this at the time.
Ziva is Jewish, though the episodes' plots rarely draw attention to this, and it is only lightly touched on during the series. However, she does clearly state in a Muslim mosque that she is Jewish (Tribes) during an investigation of a Marine's death. She keeps kosher[1] (though she is seen eating non-Kosher food during other episodes) and is consistently seen wearing the Star of David on her necklace. De Pablo describes the character as someone who is "completely different from anyone else on the show" and that because "she's been around men all her...
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