But how safe is it to entrust your life and most intimate details to agents from spying agencies with a long track record of infiltrating, surveiling, and blackmailing foreign targets? 

MintPress explores how Israeli security took over Hollywood and the world. 

In High Demand

Israeli Secret Service agents do not die or fade away, writes The New York Post. Instead, they move to Hollywood. The Tel Aviv-to-Tinsel Town pipeline has been well established over decades, and there are now a myriad of Israeli security agencies, both in Los Angeles and across the world, guarding many of the planet's richest, most famous, and influential figures. 

Inter Miami soccer superstar Lionel Messi – who, in 2020 became the face of an Israeli A.I. company staffed by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spies –  is accompanied by an select force of former Israeli agents everywhere he goes. 

Hollywood royalty Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are known to have relied on the services of Israeli security, as have pop stars, Madonna, Pink, and Jennifer Lopez. 

Actress Lucy Liu, meanwhile, is followed around everywhere by a troupe of Israeli minders. 

And Canadian singer Justin Bieber's relationship with Israeli security came to public attention in 2013, after he allegedly beat up his ex-IDF handler Moshe Benabou, the CEO of Israguard Security Services. 

In short, Israeli bodyguards are highly sought after. "There's demand around the world, and rightly so. Israeli security is like Coca-Cola," said Roman Tukh, the co-founder of Guise Security, "You don't have to advertise yourself – you have a name. The question is whether you manage to maintain it or not. That's why it's easier for us as Israelis."

Bodyguards do not come cheap. The services Tukh and others like him provide cost between $125 and $1,500 per hour, depending on the level of security needed. 

Two other famous names well acquainted with Israeli security dispatches are Bill Maher and Charlie Kirk. In a 2025 conversation, the former revealed that he spent his entire European vacation "wedged between these two giant Israeli bodyguards the whole way." "When I went to Europe in 2015, I had like two Israeli bodyguards and my security person," he told the conservative influencer. "If you want security, the Israelis know what they are doing," Kirk responded, knowingly. 

Maher edited this conversation out of the video he released to the public. It only exists as a reaction video on Kirk's official channel, which appears to be unmaintained since his death.

Only a few months later, Kirk would be publicly assassinated. His death, and his precise relationship with Israel and Israeli security, has triggered all manner of speculation online.