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Tehran

This relentlessly pulsequickening Israeli series follows the exploits of a young Mossad hacker, portrayed by Niv Sultan, who is operating behind enemy lines while being pursued by a dogged Iranian agent. Glenn Close, playing the heroine’s new Mossad boss, is a welcome addition in the new Season 2. Apple TV+

The Honorable Woman

Maggie Gyllenhaal won a Golden Globe for her work in this slow-burning and richly rewarding 2014 British series about an Anglo-Israeli heiress who is trying to convert her family’s weapons firm into a communications company that advances Israeli-Palestinian peace. HBO Max

Homeland

Despite ups and downs, no spy series has been better than this one was at its best. Claire Danes stars as CIA officer Carrie Mathison, who in the 2011 premiere season returns from Iraq and tracks a war hero she believes was compromised. Hulu

Fauda

An Israeli agent returns from retirement to engage a Hamas terrorist he believed he had killed in this brutal cat-and-mouse thriller, which moves swiftly through its three seasons. Netflix

Jack Ryan

John Krasinski as the CIA superhero from Tom Clancy’s thrillers? What’s not to like— which makes it baffling that Jack Ryan isn’t a bigger hit. The pandemic put the third season on ice, but it is reportedly on the way, making now a good moment to binge the first two. Amazon Prime

24

U.S. politics have changed so much in the past two decades that 24 feels like a period piece now. That said, it’s never a bad time to revisit counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer, if only for the adrenaline rushes. Hulu