‘Frequency of Fear’: Israel’s exploding Hezbollah pager operation being made into movie

The exploding pager operation that successfully targeted Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon in September 2024 is being made into a movie titled “Frequency of Fear.”

The cast includes “Fauda” stars Doron Ben-David and Itzik Cohen, singer Marina Maximilian, and Quentin Tarantino’s wife, Daniella Pick Tarantino, according to a Deadline report.

Israeli-born, US-based director/producer Danny Abeckaser is directing and producing from a script by Kosta Kondilopoulos.

“I, like everyone else who heard about the beeper operation, was in awe,” Abeckaser commented to Deadline. “To be able to tell the story of how they pulled it off was a dream come true.”

On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon suddenly began to explode, injuring those holding them and killing over two dozen. A day later, hundreds of walkie-talkies also blew up, injuring or killing scores more.

Israel did not confirm its involvement until November 2024, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he had greenlighted the operation.

The pager explosions occurred after almost a year of incessant rocket and drone attacks on Israel by the Hezbollah terror group, which began a day after Hamas’s October 7 massacre and led to the evacuation of some 60,000 residents from northern Israel towns on the border with Lebanon.

In the aftermath of the operation, various media outlets reported that the attack was a highly sophisticated Israeli intelligence operation years in the making in which Hezbollah was fooled into purchasing the compromised devices.