Itay Tiran

1964: three young Mossad agents capture the 'Surgeon of Birkenau,' a monstrous Nazi war criminal. While being brought to public trial, the Surgeon manages to escape. Faced with failure in their mission, the agents report their captive committed suicide and return to Israel as national heroes. 1997: more than thirty years later, the supposedly dead Surgeon resurfaces in the Ukraine, determined to confess his crimes.

It is Chief Inspector Sara Stein's first case in Tel Aviv.

An explosion at the foot of Masada. Chief archeologist Aaron Salzmann is retrieved dead from the rubble.

Missing human rights activist Dori Meyer's severed hand is found on a Tel Aviv beach. Sara and Blok investigate.