An Israeli actress cast in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film about a Mossad assassination campaign denied that it would harm the Jewish state. Gila Almagor, the doyenne of Israeli drama, said Monday she was playing the mother of a Mossad hit man in the thriller about retaliation for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, which is being shot in Malta.
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