Netflix Acquires Israeli TV Series ‘Trust No One’ About Shin Bet Leader

Shiryn Ghermezian

Israeli actress Yael Elkana. Photo: Screenshot

The production and distribution company Keshet International announced on Thursday that it has sold the television drama series Trust No One to Netflix.

The deal will have Netflix premiere Trust No One exclusively on the streaming platform in 19 territories — including the United States and United Kingdom — and co-exclusively in Israel with the television channel Keshet 12 following the broadcast of the series finale. The show, called The Head in Israel, will premiere on Israeli television in November.

Trust No One is about “the death of privacy in a digital age, where information is power, but knowledge brings pain,” according to Keshet International. The nine-part thriller made its world premiere in competition at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in June. The show’s leading stars are Yehuda Levi (Fire Dance, A Body That Works) and Yael Elkana (The Baker and the Beauty).

Levi plays Itamar, who is the youngest-ever director of Israel’s powerful internal security agency, the Shin Bet. He finds himself being framed for a cyber security leak that is exposing the Shin Bet’s top secret agents one at a time, starting with Shuruk, the daughter of a Hamas leader who Itamar recruited to spy on her father when she was 17 years old.

“Totally isolated and no longer able to trust anyone, Itamar is forced to use the kind of morally questionable espionage tools he has always opposed, to clear his name and save his agents’ lives — exposing a world where any smartphone, CCTV camera, and digital device can be hacked, and deep fake videos and spyware are as commonly used as Instagram filters,” according to a description of the show.

Keshet International is set to debut the series in October at MIPCOM 2023, an annual international gathering of television and entertainment executives. The show is regarded in Israel as Keshet’s biggest drama launch in recent years.