Talk:Ziva David

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[edit] Languages

"Ziva speaks five languages; including Hebrew, English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish"

I took "including" out. If she speaks 5 languages, then list the five. You would need more than five, for it to be "including" those five. Feel free to change it back if you disagree, though. 23:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kosher

"Ziva keeps Kosher. This is known because in season 3 when McGee buys the team dinner, Tony tells her not to worry because the food is Kosher." As i remember, this supposed to be a joke from Tony, so Ziva does not habe too keep koscher.

  • What was decided about the Kosher issue? The only reference I can come up with is Tony's rather joking one, so if there is no other support than that, I think the fact should be taken down. CrashCart9 05:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Ziva clearly doesn't keep kosher, in the episode Kill Ari (pt. 2) she asks Tony for a pizza slice, without looking at the box (to look for a kosher stamp), she didn't even looked at the pizza itself (before asking for it) to see if there was meat/sea food etc. on it. I'm removing the entry. Lizrael 14:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

There is actually another reference to this in season 3. I can't remember the episode, but Tony hands Ziva some food (if memory serves me correctly) and she says something like 'no thanks, it's not exactly kosher'. This may have been an excuse to turn down the visually unappealing dish she was being offered, but I thought this was worth mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.223.26 (talk) 22:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The nuzzle

In a couple of episodes - most recently "Suspicion" - Ziva has been shown seductively "nuzzling" people she has been threatening. (In "Suspicion" we see her do this when she forces the police officer to apologize to the Iraqi suspect). What should we call his - a "trademark move"? Or just a bit of strangeness on her part? 23skidoo 14:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

  • This article needs the editorial content removed. I got rid of a lot of it, particularly in the Trivia section, but it still needs help.
  • In the NCIS character template bit, there's one item titled "Home city". This needs changed to "Hometown" or something similar, as now it points to Ziva's home city as Israel, which is not a city, obviously.
  • I broke up the Character part of the article - it was too long and as such, difficult to read. The new section, however, needs work.
    • There's a significant amount of information about her interaction with DiNozzo interspersed throughout the article, so much so that her interaction with him could easily be a subsection of that header if it were all pulled out.
    • However, for continuity purposes, it would look better the other characters had subsections also, and many of them (truly, all but Abby) do not have enough information to justify that at this point.
      • The Gibbs area of the interaction section in particular needs fleshed out, as there is much more information out there that could be added to show a more complete overview of Ziva's interaction with fellow NCIS members.

In all, this is a pretty woeful little selection of information about the character, particularly in formatting and editorial areas. It needs a lot more work than I can give to it at the moment. CrashCart9 00:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zaka

I don't want to do it myself, someone might think it's vandalism and reverse it, but ZAKA (Zain, Kuf, Alef זק"א - זיהוי קורבנות אסון, Identification of Victim of Horrors, in loose translation) is a very famous oranization in Israel. They are incharge of collecting all the pieces of the dead after terror attacks, since according to the halacha you have to bury the whole body at once. During the active years of Intifadas kids even dressed like them in Purim. Please remove or alter the line in the trivia section, most of Zakas activity takes place in Israel, they mainly collect money in the US. Lizrael 21:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm removing the entry. Lizrael 14:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Army Service

People who are accepted to Mossad are those who completed officers training in the IDF. So, besides the obligatory two years, officers serve at least nine month more, and in some units even two years more. Unless we know for sure that Ziva wasn't an officer, we can't determine the length of her service. Lizrael 12:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

The sentence added again is wrong, today, males have to serve three years and females only two. In the past the service for girls was even shorter. Since we can't really know for how long she served, until it is mentioned in the show, I removed the wrong sentence, stop adding it. Lizrael 09:37, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ziva & Ducky

Greetings. For the relationship between Ziva & Ducky I kind of got the impression that it was sort of a "they bonded because they are the two outsiders", both in terms of neither one is American, and, in the begining at least, neither one were part of the main field team (Ducky in the lab and Ziva not yet integrated). Did any-one else get this vibe? Gecko G (talk) 10:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

To a point, I do agree with you, although I also think it was something to do with Ducky being one of the only ones to wholeheartedly welcome her. Ziva had hostility from Abby and she clashed heads with Tony when she first arrived over their intentions for Ari Haswari. I think Ziva latched onto Ducky and McGee because of this, but I think you are right as well. They shared the outsider thing, and Ziva and McGee shared the 'probie' role in common. Sky83 (talk) 12:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] clean up 2

this is the back story paragraph Backstory When her younger sister, Tali, was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing, Ziva was already a Mossad operative at the time and states that she was in the Israeli army for an unspecified time (It is assumed that this time was at least two years as that is the minimum compulsory service all Israeli women undertake), whilst claiming that no-one recruited her, she volunteered for Mossad.Actualmente esta casada con un tipo que se llama Manuel Reyes y es de Monterrey N.L. Mexico, tiene una niña llamada Andrea [2]

Ziva speaks at least six languages fluently: English, Hebrew,[3] Spanish,[4] Arabic,[5] Turkish[6] and French.[7] She is also able to speak basic German, Italian and Russian.[5]

Note there is a sentance there in spanish. I have removed it but could someone translate that to see if it is needed? thanx Lovingnews1989 (talk) 11:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)