Based on a true story, Amazon Prime’s hit series Yosi, the Regretful Spy focuses on “Yosi”, aka Jose Perez, who was a secret agent sent by the Argentinian government to infiltrate the Argentinian Jewish community. The show has been greenlighted for a second season.
For twenty years, Perez lived as a Jew, hiding his true origins and seemingly falling in love with Jewish culture and life. As Yosi, he married (and later divorced) a Jewish woman and eventually converted to Judaism. “He was really a very good candidate to be a Jew,” Rabbi Mauricio Balter, the rabbi who believed he was converting Yosi in 1988, recently told The Jerusalem Post. “Now I understand that he was a good actor also.”
Yosi believed that reconnaissance he provided to Argentinian intelligence officials contributed to the worst terrorist attacks in Argentinian history: the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, and the the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Both attacks killed and maimed hundreds of people.
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