Ari Haswari

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Ari Haswari is a fictional character in the TV series NCIS played by Rudolf Martin. A terrorist, he is the archenemy of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

According to NCIS investigation, Ari Haswari was born in 1969 to Drs. Benjamin Weinstein, who was also a Mossad agent, and Hasmia Haswari while they worked at a hospital in Jerusalem. He has a half-sister from his father's side, Ziva David, who would eventually help NCIS try to capture him. He graduated from medical school from Edinburgh Medical School in 1994. After graduation, he did his post graduate work at the Edinburgh Center For Infectious Diseases, where he was described by a fellow doctor as a brilliant ladies' man. Afterwards, Ari worked with his mother in a local clinic in the Gaza Strip until her death four years prior to his first contact with NCIS. As he was there, he was working as an undercover Mossad agent.

Special Agent Gibbs speculated that he was the kind of person who had to face death in order to feel alive. He suffers from mottephobia, the fear of moths, specifically butterflies.

Ari was initially listed with NCIS as a member of Hamas. His first contact with NCIS came when Hamas ordered him to retrive the body of another terrorist who botched a plan to spread smallpox on a navy base. That terrorist was subsequently killed by Gibbs. During the ordeal, Ari holds Mallard, Gerald Jackson, and Special Agent Todd hostage and shoots Jackson in the shoulder when Mallard and Todd try to trick him. Ari, impressed with Gibbs' marksmanship, allows Gibbs a chance kill him when the two have a shootout in the morgue. Although he was wearing a bulletproof vest, Ari still took a huge chance. Immediately, the morgue is stormed by agents, but Ari escapes. Since he never gave his name, no one knew he was, and learning his identity became an obsession for Gibbs who became frustrated when no one seemed to have any idea who he was.

A few months later, Ari returned to the US with other terrorists in an ambitious plan to kidnap President George W. Bush and then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was on an official visit to the United States, as they travelled in Marine One. Ari kidnaps Todd so she can disclose which helicopter is Marine One, but when she tells him that would be impossible since the escort helicopters are indistinguishable from Marine One, Ari kills one of the terrorists and reavels that he is in reality a Mossad agent, and offers to tell the Secret Service about his plan, which is ultimately foiled by the FBI. In discovering that Ari is an undercover agent who has infiltrated Hamas and Al-Qaeda, the CIA allows him to leave the country, much to the dislike of Agent Gibbs, who was ordered to forget about Ari. However, Ari allows Gibbs to meet him alone in the NCIS morgue. Ari tells Gibbs he had to shoot Jackson to keep his cover. Before leaving, Gibbs shoots Ari in the shoulder so that he could "better convince Al-Qaeda."

Later, his obsession with Gibbs gets the better of Ari. While on assignment with the FBI to uncover an Al-Qaeda cell in Washington (which, in reality, he was running), Ari breaks contact, kills two Navy operatives, and booby traps the crime scene to kill the NCIS team, which nearly succeeds. He then tries to kill Gibbs in a coffee shop with a bomb, and then orchestrates a terrorist attack against a ship of sailors returning from the Gulf. It is thwarted by NCIS, but as the team searches for other terrorists, Ari kills Agent Todd from a sniper position and escapes. Gibbs becomes obsessed with finding and killing Ari, and he eventually gets his wish. After other successful attacks on the team, including kidnapping Dr. Mallard, Ari is killed in Gibbs's basement by his half-sister, Mossad Officer Ziva David, after he goes there to finally kill Gibbs. The official NCIS report lists that Gibbs killed Ari.

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