When she and Gibbs were fleeing some baddies in the premiere, she finally declared that defeating Sahar and overcoming her enemies is the only way to return to Tony and Tali.
Neither Tony nor their daughter seem to know that Ziva is alive, but Ziva is fighting with everything she has to defeat her elusive enemies and get back to her friends and family.
Even though she’s changed a great deal during her time on the run, she clearly hasn’t stopped loving the people she so deeply cared about before.