Search for Ilan Bodnar is an event that occurred in January 2013 and which saw NCIS Special Agent Ziva David embarking on a secret albeit large manhunt for her former friend, ex-Mossad Director Ilan Bodnar. The manhunt eventually attracted the attention of Ziva's NCIS colleagues, Timothy McGee who agreed to help Ziva and later Anthony DiNozzo and Leroy Jethro Gibbs with the search eventually leading to the Search for Bodnar in Berlin, Germany.