62 years old. At the top of the Israeli high-tech food chain are people like Alona. A full-on tycoon. She even appears on the list of most influential people in the world ("Forbes," end of 2020 issue, framed and hanging in her living room).
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She has an investment fund already invested in two startups where Johnny was the angel investor. In general, Johnny wants to be Alona when he grows up because she's already worth a few billion and not just a few million.
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Alona is a smart and sophisticated woman. She's a board member in significant state institutions like the airport authority, electric company, and Dead Sea Works. She, of course, has a soccer team and a hospital wing named after her. She also comes from the security establishment, from the Mossad. She has extensive connections and sophisticated tactics for obtaining information, controlling people, and managing the world.
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She also has a spiritual side, studies Kabbalah, and believes she has a connection to higher worlds and prophetic entities. Sometimes, she hears voices that guide her.
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Alona is the behind-the-scenes villain, and she'll receive increasing prominence towards the end of the season. She starts as Johnny's mentor (who exploits him, operates behind his back, and plays with the lives of all the startup's people), and is gradually revealed as the one whose hand is in everything.
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Alona torments everyone around her. She doesn't give anyone the time of day. She has a personal assistant, Amos, who is a childhood friend who accompanies her everywhere and handles all her affairs. He gives her reports from beyond the door when she's in the bathroom (that's how she likes it), serves her ice pops still in their wrapper, just for her to pull out (that's how she likes it) and provides her with small plates containing three ginger cookies and two gummy snake candies (that's how she likes it).
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And what about Amos's family? We don't know and Alona really doesn't care.
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Example of an opening scene from childhood: 1973, Alona at age 12, moves excitedly in her room. She counts pounds, checks her passport and writes dates of plays and fashion and music stores in an illustrated youth diary. Amos, her nerdy classmate is there while she eats and offers him something to eat but he says he's fasting. She's excited because tomorrow she's supposed to fly to London for her bat mitzvah trip. In excitement, she goes downstairs to the living room to tell her parents she's ready for the flight but just as she enters they're glued to the radio listening to the news. The Yom Kippur War breaks out and London will have to wait.