Avi Drexler

One thing I've learned over the many years I've lived, if you don't enjoy life today, you never will.

**-Avi Drexler**

## Avi Drexler

### Aliases

* The Jew
* Avi Benhamou

### Relatives

* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother†

### Affiliation

* Mossad (Formerly)
* Avi's Crew

### Occupation

* Mossad Agent (Formerly)
* Drug and Arms Kingpin

## Biographical information

### Nationality

* Israeli (Birth)
* American (Current Citizenship)

### Age

* 49 (1983-1984)
* 50 (1984-1985)
* 51 (1985)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Alon Aboutboul

**Avi Drexler** is an Israeli drug lord who made Franklin Saint the man he is today.

## Biography

### Before the Series

Before he was in the cocaine game, he was a Mossad agent back in Israel up until an incident in 1972 forced him out.

### During the Series

He first met Franklin Saint in 1983 when he sold Rob Volpe and his family bricks of yeyo. He also did business with Alejandro Usteves and Logan Miller in the kilo trade in order to fund the Contra wars in Nicaragua. After Logan OD'd, he met Alejandro's new partner, Teddy McDonald, under the alias, Reed Thompson, and showed a lack of trust for him at first. He was arrested in Season 2 only to be released later on and learned Franklin now had the plug in his absence. He then began selling arms and other assorted weapons out of his Chinatown warehouse to Teddy to ship to Nicaragua. Whenever he wasn't distributing drugs or arms, he was off hunting Nazi war criminals. His past eventually caught up to him when Mossad attempted to kill him, and would up killing his bodyguard, Yuda. He had shown that he was a soldier who moved from battlefield to battlefield. When the KGB broke into his warehouse, he was there. He killed one of the men but was knocked unconscious by Rubén, who then tortured him, interrogated him, and eventually shot him dead.

### Legacy

Avi was a career soldier but a zero tolerance boss. He never turned to crime until the incident that destroyed his career sent him towards a new path. Though he put a lot of fear, stress, and anxiety in folks he dealt with, he meant well. After being captured by the KGB, however, he showed he had no allegiances and was looking out for himself.

## Appearances

* Make Them Birds Fly
* Trauma
* Baby Teeth
* The Rubicon
* Serpiente
* The Offer
* Aftermath

* Cash and Carry
* Confessions
* Hedgehogs
* Blackout
* Expansion
* Through a Glass, Darkly
* Sleeping Dogs

* Revolutions
* The Iliad: Part 1
* The Iliad: Part 2
* Celebration
* Departures
* Fault Lines

## Quotes

"*Don't fucking touch my ribeye.*"
— Avi to Franklin at his new apartment when pulling Teddy aside for a deal. *(Serpiente)*

"*You're making my dick hard, Reed!*"
— Avi to Teddy during the gun deal. *(Serpiente)*

"*You broke my heart, kid. But when a bird grows hair on it's balls, it's gotta leave the nest.*"
— Avi ending his dealings with Franklin. *(Serpiente)*

"*You remind me of a couple of Lebanese pimps I used to know.*"
— Avi to Diego and Danilo at their home when arriving to help Matt. *(Aftermath)*

"*The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And eventually if you're not careful, they catch up with you.*"
— Avi to Franklin after he got his home back. *(The More You Make)*

"*What the hell am I suppose to do stuck in the land of my people's genocide? You don't go to Paris and not get a croissant, right?*"
— Avi making his case known for being put in Germany just before returning to his prisoner. *(Commitment)"*

"*I am back mein kommandant! Tell me, do you remember the name of you're wife today? Now, in this minute.* (Speaking Hebrew)*!*"
— Avi returning back to the interrogation of the suspected Nazi. *(Commitment)"*