Kidon is also referred to in the Covert Affairs season 1 episode "No Quarter". The director of Mossad, Eli David, Ziva's father, has referred to his daughter as the "sharp end of the spear". Ziva is shown to be a part of Kidon as well. In the last episode of the same season, "Aliyah", Ziva David's boyfriend Michael Rivkin is stated to have been a Kidon member.
Kidon is referred to in the NCIS season 6 episode "Legend (Part 2)" when they suspect a Mossad agent visiting the US is part of the Kidon group. Kidon is referenced several times in the show NCIS. Kidon is referenced numerous times in the 2001 novel Separation of Power by Vince Flynn as assassins working for the Israeli Mossad. In popular culture Īll of Daniel Silva's " Gabriel Allon" novels reference this group. In addition to counter-terrorist operations, the Kidon unit can also operate in other capacities in order to assist the needs of the Mossad. Given the secret nature of the unit, there is almost no reliable information available. It also has been claimed Kidon was responsible for the assassination of Muhammad Suleiman. It has been claimed the unit was involved in the Operation Wrath of God campaign. Today it is considered a unit within the Caesarea department of the Mossad. Īccording to Israeli author Aaron Klein, Kidon was known as Caesarea until a reorganization in the mid-1970s. Not much is known about this mysterious unit, details of which are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the Israeli intelligence community." The unit only recruits among former soldiers from the elite IDF special forces units. Kidon is described by journalist Yaakov Katz as "an elite group of expert assassins who operate under the Caesarea branch of the espionage organization.
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