This is the intriguing set-up for a gripping new Israeli TV drama, False Flag, that is coming to British TV at the end of the month.
Like Prisoners of War – the original for Homeland – False Flag also operates as an insight into, and a critique of Israeli society.
False Flag is being marketed as “the new Homeland”, perhaps inevitably since the global hit starring Claire Danes as CIA agent Carrie Mathison began life as the low-budget Israeli TV drama called Prisoners of War.
We didn’t put the focus on terrorists or spies – we were looking at Israeli society and Israeli characters to tell the story.”