NCIS Mossad Officer Ziva David is a Hit Thanks to Actress Cote De Pablo

Since I recently began watching the hit CBS navy crime series, NCIS, on a regular basis, I have become very fond of a couple of the show’s characters, one of which is an NCIS Mossad Liaison Officer named Ziva David, played by attractive actress, Cote de Pablo. 

David was assigned to the NCIS following the murder of Special Agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad operative. Although lead NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) did not agree with the assignment initially, he came to accept Ziva as one of his team members. 

Soon after her assignment to NCIS, she kills a native Israeli named Ari Haswari in order to save Gibbs' life and it is revealed afterwards that she is Ari's half-sister and Gibbs falsifies his report to indicate that he, not Ziva, killed Ari. 

David is also an expert marksman and carries two firearms and a knife with her at all times. As a matter of fact, she was trained as an assassin by the Mossad, however, it is not clear whether she ever actually operated in that capactity. She also appears to not be adverse to using extreme force, often threatening both suspects and victims alike during interrogations (leading to at least one incident in which she is accused of killing a suspect in custody). 

She frequently brags of her abilities as a Mossad agent (such as reppelling down a cliff without safety ropes, and swimming three miles in freezing water at night.) She particularly taunts agent, Anthony “Tony” DiNozzo and some parts of her personality disturb him, like the fact that she sleeps with a gun in her hand. 

Nevertheless, she and DiNozzo share an almost brother-sister relationship to the point where the two are routinely pulling pranks on each other and acting childishly. However, there was one spark of chemistry between the two in an episode where they had to pose as a married couple who were also assassins.