Ziva David was a beloved character on NCIS, played by actress Cote de Pablo. Ziva was an Israeli operative assigned to the NCIS team as a liaison officer after the death of Caitlin Todd at the end of NCIS season 2. She then became a probationary NCIS agent and a US citizen. Zivas time at NCIS came to an end in Season 11 when she, Tony, and McGee resigned from NCIS to protect Gibbs from a political vendetta, but Ziva chose not to rejoin the agency when the issue was resolved. Instead, she returned to Israel and was supposedly killed offscreen in Season 13 during an attack on her father, Eli Davids, farmhouse. However, in the season 16 episode "She," NCIS reopens a ten-year-old cold case and it is revealed that Ziva is alive and in hiding to protect her family. In the season 17 episode "In the Wind," Ziva returns to help Gibbs take down a terrorist group and reunites with Tony, who is now raising their daughter Tali.