Debates since the middle of the last decade Israelis It inspired American classics like ‘In Therapy’. ‘Homeland’ and ‘Euphoria’. On the other hand, since its success (without the need for a ‘remake’) ‘Stisel’ or ‘Fauda’ Its manufacturers have gained the confidence to think big and find ways to develop ambitious projects on global platforms.
Israel’s latest war conflict with Gaza is in the media spotlight, and the unhealed wounds are still there, seeping into the content and concerns of television conspiracies.
Below is a list of Israeli content that is easily available on the platforms.
This hot drama, which became a global sensation after being added to Netflix in 2019, deals with the troubles of the Shtisel family, consisting of Haredi Jews in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem. Young bachelor Akiva (Michael Aloni) and his widowed father, Shulem (Doval’e Glickman), are taciturn roommates who are also searching for love. They remain loyal to beliefs and dogmas. Shira HaasThe heroine of ‘Unorthodox’ made her big screen debut as the bookish eldest daughter of Akiva’s sister Giti (Neta Riskin). Available on Netflix.
The title means ‘chaos’ in Arabic, but this political thriller contains much of the most transparent (as well as adrenaline-pumping) action ever seen on television. It doesn’t take long to take us right into the eye of the storm, into the impossible game of cat and mouse between a special unit of the Israeli army and a group of terrorists in the West Bank (in the third season, the action jumps to the Gaza Strip). Its creators do not take clear sides: both Jews and Palestinians, including terrorists, are presented as three-dimensional characters. Available on Netflix.
Winner of best TV series at Canneseries in 2018, this dramatic thriller from Omri Givon follows the initially separate paths of four former soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. They have very different lives, but post-traumatic stress unites them. And then a discovery: Yaeli (Ninet Tayeb, winner of the first edition of the Israeli ‘American Idol’), Aviv’s ex-girlfriend (Tomer Capon) and Dubi’s (Nadav Netz) sister, may not be dead as believed. . Try to watch just one episode. Available on Netflix.
In Israel, too, they know that the half-hour format is not exclusive to comedy: It provides a great advantage of time. Eli Ben-David in the drama ‘L’attaché’, based on episodes from his own life. He also appears in the film, but not in the role of a screenwriter or actor: his Avshalom is a successful drummer until he moves to Paris with his French wife, Annabelle (Héloïse Godet), who accepts a job as an immigration attaché. embassy Israel. The terrorist attacks and racism threat of 2015 await them there. It’s in the movie.
In the summer of 2014, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed by Hamas militants, sparking a wave of hate incidents; The saddest of these is the murder of a Palestinian teenager by three young ultra-Orthodox Jews. These two cases contributed to the outbreak of the Gaza war. This miniseries arguably focuses on only the second incident from kidnapping to trial, and in the process, a universal reflection on hate crime emerges. Available on HBO.
As a result of Apple’s agreement with Moshe Zonder, the chief screenwriter of ‘Fauda’, this great espionage ‘thriller’ emerged full of tension and pleasant surprises from the very beginning. Niv Sultan plays Tamar, a Mossad hacker who infiltrates Tehran under the false identity of a flight attendant to help blow up an Iranian nuclear reactor. Paranoid intrigue movies like Alan J. Pakula’s are no longer made, but there are TV series that evoke similar emotions. It was just announced that it has been renewed for a second season. Available on Apple TV+.
Period dramas were non-existent on Israeli television until a long time ago, partly due to the limited budget on which they worked. But soon she would become the ‘beauty queen of Jerusalem’, a family that spanned three generations in the first half of the 20th century. Before that, there was ‘The Valley of Tears’, a re-enactment of the iconic battles of the 1973 Yom Kippur War that changed the geopolitical map of the Middle East forever.
Among its creators we find Ron Leshem, the father of the original ‘Euphoria’. Available on HBO.