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- CreatorEliran MalkaDaniel ParanStarsDaniel GadOri LaizerouvichOmer Perelman Striks4 Yeshiva students who don't entirely fit in to their own world, although they try, find themselves at odds with their rabbi, their parents, and their matchmaker.
- CreatorEliezer 'Laizy' ShapiraHava DivonStarsMaayan WeinstockYael SharoniOhad Knoller"Srugim" is a dramady series that deals with the life of single Modern Orthodox people from Jerusalem. The series offers a glance into the lives of intelligent and educated young people who can't find their place in the existing religious framework, which is based mostly on family. With the best of intentions, they each make choices that further complicate their lives, while holding onto the friendships that bind them together.
- CreatorAdir MillerRan SarigStarsAdir MillerLior HalfonYael Sharoni3 middle aged men in a conflict with life about their wives, friends, children and funny everyday situations .
- StarsNorman IssaClara KhouryMariano IdelmanAmjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
- StarsAlma ZackYossi MarshekMichael Zapfamily that raises an autistic child in a rural village lacking any therapeutic resources.
- CreatorOri ElonYehonatan IndurskyStarsDoval'e GlickmanMichael AloniNeta RiskinA Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.
- CreatorAnna WingerStarsShira HaasAmit RahavJeff WilbuschStory of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad.
- DirectorMaxime GirouxStarsMartin DubreuilHadas YaronLuzer TwerskyIn Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
- DirectorAvi NesherStarsAdir MillerMaya DaganDror KerenDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsTim KalkhofSarah AdlerRoi MillerA German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- DirectorHaim TabakmanStarsZohar StraussRan Khalil DankerTinkerbellA married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
- CreatorMaor ZaguriStarsMoshe IvgyOz ZehaviChen Amsalem ZaguriA soldier named Aviel returns to his family because of his grandfather's death, after ten years of not speaking to them.
- DirectorOded RazStarsGuy AmirHanan SavyonGal AmitaiThe biggest Israeli blockbuster since 1986 . Steve and Chuma , two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfillment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.
- CreatorOri ElonYehonatan IndurskyStarsAssi CohenDaniella KerteszShuli RandA dystopian drama starring some of Israel's top acting talent, Autonomies is a globally-relevant tale centering on the burning issues of identity, religion, politics and personal freedom. The story is set in an alternate reality of present day Israel, a nation torn and divided by a wall into the secular "State of Israel", with Tel Aviv as its capital, and the "Haredi Autonomy" in Jerusalem, run by an ultra-Orthodox religious group. Living in the Autonomy, amongst this uneasy territorial status quo, is Broide, a Haredi wheeler-dealer who makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the two regions. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: he is asked to kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular - and smuggle her across the border between the two territories. This "Solomon's Trial" of a legal saga, followed by the kidnapping of the child, fuels a dramatic uproar that threatens to tear a fragile country to pieces. Meanwhile, an impossible love story develops between Broide and Anna, a musician from the opposite side of the wall. Dramatically strong and thematic, their ill-advised love affair symbolically unites a divided nation, if only for a moment in Anna's bed. With Israel once again aflame and civil war closer than ever, a great longing for home arises from among the fragments, walls and tears.
- CreatorIzhar HarlevUri LevronDaniel SyrkinStarsYehuda LeviLiron VaismanHana LasloThe hamidrasha is a drama thriller TV series about the Israeli secret service spy's academy.
- CreatorGuy AmirHanan SavyonStarsHanan SavyonGuy AmirAgam RudbergA drama unfolding in the brutal and bleeding reality of Israel.
- DirectorLeon PrudovskyStarsGilat AnkoriVladimir FriedmanEsteban GottfriedA romantic comedy about a new immigrant from Argentina who falls in love with his female Hebrew teacher.
- DirectorDover KoshashviliStarsLior AshkenaziRonit ElkabetzMoni MoshonovZaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsKais NashifLubna AzabalYaniv BitonSalam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
- CreatorErez AviramTomer AviramYuval SemoStarsYuval SemoLiora RivlinYigal AdikaAn Israeli police comedy. Danny Konfino is a police officer serving in a suburban police station. Although his quick temper often gets him into trouble, he is as honest as one can get and a highly dedicated crime fighter. With his anger management issues he tries to manouver between his dysfunctional family, his ex-girlfriend who turned Lesbian, a possible love affair with one of his colleagues and a statiion chief totally lacking any trait of self awareness and an obsession to branded hand cream.
- CreatorNadav FrishmanYaniv ZoharStarsKeren MorDov NavonNoa KolerIsrael's #1 smash hit comedy series follows the hilarious antics of a diverse cast of customers and staff of a struggling Israeli supermarket.
- CreatorAvner BernheimerAyelet Gundar-GoshenRaya ShusterStarsRoy NikDolev MesikaYael FolmanKipat Barzel (Iron Yarmulke), about three ultra-Orthodox young men who have chosen to serve in the IDF - despite the communal taboos associated with it.
- CreatorHila BaharadArik BernsteinShai LahavStarsYaël AbecassisYossi AlfiSammy SmoohaA four episodes documentary series that unveils one of the most controversial topics in the history of the Israeli state. Rare archival materials and testimonials of former residents tell the stories of the 'Ma'abrot' (refugee absorption camps meant to provide accommodation for the large influx of Jewish refugees in Israel in the 1950s), and the institutional discrimination towards its inhabitants - Jewish immigrants from North Africa and Middle East.
- DirectorNatalie PortmanStarsNatalie PortmanGilad KahanaAmir TesslerThe story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.