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- CreatorModi Bar-OnAnat ZeltzerStarsModi Bar-OnA journey along road 90, the lowest highway in the world and the longest in Israel.
- "A nation in Reserve" is a documentary series following a group of Israelis who once a year make the harsh transitions from civilian to military life and back. The series tells the story of members of an elite reserve unit from the moment they receive their call-ups and until they return home. Through the lives of his protagonists, the series' director tries to trace the disappearing spirit of solidarity that once defined being an Israeli.
- StarsSmadar LeviHavatzelet IngberAvigayil YifrachThe battle of women working in a sewing workshop in Mitzpeh Ramon Israel.
- StarsShiri MaimonDana InternationalSvika PickMakom Batzameret (a place at the top) is a six part series on Israeli Pop Music.
- CreatorHagai LeviStarsHagai LeviNetta ShpigelmanYehuda AlmagorThrough a combination of documentary footage and reenactments, the series follows four Israeli iconic artists: Author Pinchas Sadeh, philosopher Moshe Kroy, poet Yona Wallach, and artist Aviva Uri.
- CreatorAdi ArbelAssi DayanMoish GoldbergStarsAssi DayanMoshe DayanAn inside look at the life of Assi Dayan, son of infamous general Moshe Dayan.
- CreatorRon ChachliliStarsTopolMenahem GolanAnat AtzmonA critical review of the history of the Israeli "Burekas" films.
- StarsYitzhak Navon
- CreatorArik BernsteinNoit GevaShai LahavStarsItay TiranMenahem GolanNira GalDocumentary series about the history of Israeli cinema, featuring hundreds of interviews and a wealth of rare archival footage.
- StarsRonit AlmogErez NossekIlanit ShetzigovskiFive residents walking on a fine line of life and death
- CreatorEyal BalachsanUri RosenwaksStarsFaten ZinatiMeir NitzanYusef AlbazAt the very center of Israel is the city of Lod, a place of failure, violence and fear. Lod, where Jews, Christians and Moslems live together (75,000 inhabitants) is an image of governmental and municipal despair. Can a new appointed mayor save Lod and give her people Hope?
- CreatorModi Bar-OnAnat ZeltzerStarsModi Bar-OnThe history of the kibbutzim in Israel.
- StarsYeshayahu LeibowitzThe series tries to decipher the image of Yeshayahu Leibowitz the philosopher whose doctrines remain relevant and bothersome to the fate of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
- CreatorModi Bar-OnGavriel BibliowiczAnat ZeltzerStarsModi Bar-OnAlma ZackMini series focusing on the history of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
- CreatorEsther DarStarsIgal NaorJoanne LaraMichael GreenspanThe story of Israel's first fifty years of statehood, TKUMA brings to the screen the tragedies and joyful milestones of Israel's first half century.
- CreatorYigal LossinStarsYossi BanaiIan McKellenDocumentary mini series about the History of Zionism.
- CreatorAmi AmirGidi AviviArik BernsteinStarsYoav KutnerShalom HanochIzhar AshdotThe History of Israeli Rock.
- CreatorAmi AmirModi Bar-OnArik BernsteinStarsModi Bar-OnTopolRivka MichaeliThe history of the satire, humor and entertainment in Israel.
- StarsOved AbutbulReuven AbergelArie DeriThe story of Moroccan Jewry in Israel.
- CreatorOri SalyNissan ShorStarsNissan ShorGal UchovskyIsrael GoodovitchThe story of the Israel's nightclubs.
- A television crew set out with Ehud Ya'ari on the trail of the Jewish kingdom of the Khuzari, which disappeared from the world a thousand years ago. At the heart of the series, three journeys to the remotest parts of the Caucasus - the Volga Delta, the Crimean Peninsula and the Steppes of the Don.
- StarsShai AviviMeir SuissaLior SchleienSix Israeli public figures participate in this gripping documentary series touching upon substantial questions, which worry us all. Each one of them, at his/her turn, departs for an experimental journey, which suggests a variety of moving, sometimes amusing, always inspiring encounters. In each episode we are introduced to a gallery of colorful characters who obsessively engage themselves with the question of unavoidability of death. The mentor of the series is Psychology professor, Carlo Strenger, who drives the participants throughout Israel, as they discuss with him what they have encountered. The "psychologist-chauffer" is also the one who meets the whole group at the final episode to try and figure out together what kind of insights they now share.
- StarsMaharta BaruchDori ParnasMerav BatitoThe history of the Land of Israel from prehistoric times to the Ottoman period.
- StarsAgi GallusTomer HeymannBarak HeymannPassing time fills a central role in Baderech Ha'baita. Using old 8 mm. films and an intimate portrayal of the significant events in his personal life over the last fifteen years, director Tomer Heymann (It Kinda Scares Me, Paper Dolls, Bridge Over the Wadi), reveals a charged and surprising emotional world. Shooting with a small video cam gives Baderech Ha'baita a feeling of great intimacy with the main characters and the director himself, who deals with personal, familial, and national crises through his obsessive filming, constantly seeking his way back home.
- Three part serial Forty years after the Yom Kippur war, some of those soldiers and officers who experienced the horrors of one of the most horrific wars in Israel, are today influencing our daily aspect of life.
- StarsSima17 short documentaries portraying different people living in Ha'Tikva Neighborhood.
- StarsAviel Levy
- CreatorNaftaly GliksbergStarsKeren MorRuth DayanOrna Ben-Dor NivA look at the historic and cultural evolution of the Israeli society as reflected through fashion.
- StarsHadag NahashShaanan StreetDavid KlemesThe documentary series "Debut" ("Hofa'at Bechora") portrays the exciting journey of two youth groups from the south of Israel ("Brinks" from Netivot and "Ditora" from Kiriyat Malachi) making their first steps in the music industry. They work together with Sha'anan Street and Dudush Kalmas from the group "Hadag Nahash" on recording a first single and a common concert. Alongside the creative process and as a part of working on the songs, the main characters deal with complex issues having to do with racism, tradition and parents-children relationships. With everyday dilemmas of adolescence unravels a fascinating reality, full of fears, humor and dreams, where music takes a lead role.
- CreatorZohar Melinek-EzraAfek Testa-LaunerStarsLioz Levi"Al HaRetzef" (Spectrums) is an Israeli documentary series that follows the social and spiritual world of 10 members of the transgender community in Israel.
- CreatorArik BernsteinNoit GevaStarsDan GevaItai LandsbergUri BarbashFive decades of documentary work in the Israeli public broadcasting Channel 1.
- CreatorDuki DrorYossi MelmanChen ShelachStarsAylam OrianRam Ben BarakGad ShimronFor years the Mossad, Israel's legendary foreign intelligence agency, has been sealed off to the media. Now, for the first time since its founding, a dozen of Mossad's former spies give us a first-hand recount into their inner work and their moral dilemmas. Viewers are drawn into a personal account of the top-secret operations that have shaped Israel's past and may yet shape its future.
- StarsIrit LinurMickey RosenthalNatan ZahaviA story of the rise and fall of the Israeli daily newspaper "News" ("Hadashot"). The newspaper was founded in the early 80's and had dramatic effect on Israeli press and society in general. Six of Israel's most influential and acclaimed journalists, who started their careers within the innovative and feisty newspaper's headquarters, reminisce and examine in retrospect their scoops and their struggles with censorship, with the conservative press around them and with their own conscience. Miki Rozenthal, Reno Zror, Raudor Benzimen, Yigal Sarna, Natan Zahavi and Alex Levac deal with the controversial legacy that changed the face of journalism in Israel: Exposing false ISA report of the "300 Bus" affair, the daring and personal style of reporting, blood-pornography, nudity and relentless gossip. How did all this contribute to the shift in Israeli society in recent decades; from a polite and moral society (in its' own eyes), respectful of its' governing institutes, turned into a know-it-all witty and venomous society, impertinent, impatient, contemptuous and untrusting of any institute.
- Mockumentary mini series about the disappearance of women artists in Israeli culture.
- CreatorModi Bar-OnAnat ZeltzerStarsEtgar KeretShira GeffenDavid GrossmanA journey into Israeli children's literature, featuring its leading figures.
- Megiddo, a high-security prison, is a microcosm representing the painful experience of two nations.
- StarsYaron LondonYaron London (journalist) examines the ways in which our use of the Hebrew language has changed, from its revival by Eliezer Ben Yehuda to the present day. Along the way, London addresses subjects such as the generation gap, slang and "sub-languages".
- CreatorSharon KarniRoni KubanRan LandauStarsRoni KubanHanoch Levin18 years after the death of playwright and director Hanoch Levin comes an expansive series that recounts his personal and artistic biography in four chapters. Levin was one of Israel's greatest playwrights - a sharp, witty, cruel mind - and a rare truth-teller, who expressed what Israelis dared not tell themselves.
- CreatorAssaf AmirYoav KutnerAvida LivnyStarsMiki GabrielovShalom HanochMoni MoshonovA musical biography of one of the most influential and iconic figures in the history of Israeli culture. "A Standard Love Song" is a musical biography of Arik Einstein, the artist whose voice was an anchor of Israeli culture, and whose story is the story of Tel Aviv and of Israel and Israelis: dreamers, warriors, artists and lovers.
- StarsAmos TamamLiron Ben-ShlushAvihu MedinaWith a rapture of archival footage, candid interviewees, and tough-love attitude, Dalia Mevorach and Dani Dothan bring forth a humane and social portrait of one of the biggest stars of Israeli culture - Zohar Argov.
- CreatorArik BernsteinEliav LiltiStarsYaron LondonShmuel VilozniEphraim Kishon'I was brought up and destroyed in a hell called Nazism. I was educated and raised by the Holocaust.'(Ephraim Kishon)
- CreatorUri RosenwaksStarsHaïm UllielWhen delving into the world of Maimonides, the greatest Jewish adjudicator and philosopher in history, one thing becomes clear: if he were to suddenly awake and appear in the State of Israel of 2017, he would most certainly be baffled. Like every myth, and especially one created 800 years ago, everyone today has his own Maimonides, right wing or left wing, intellectuals or rabbis, whether orthodox, religious nationals, or secular. But "The Great Eagle" himself remains partly as mystery; what were his influences? In what language did he speak and think? What were the events that shaped his life? Above all, what remains of his perceptions in Israel and present-day Judaism?
- StarsDaniel KahnemanArieh WarshelMichael LevittOver the past ten years, eight Israeli scientists have won the Nobel Prize, an extraordinary achievement for a country this size. After all the pomp and fanfare, few of us really know what they were awarded for, and how, for heaven's sake, it relates to our lives? In five 35-minute episodes, we penetrate the world of the scientific ideas and the breakthrough discoveries of the Nobel winners.
- CreatorOrna Ben-Dor NivStarsRonit AloniOrna Sasson-LevyOz AlmogWhat is Israeli sexuality at all and how does the Israeli culture affect it?
- CreatorYair AgmonTamar KayShadi Habib AllahStarsTamar KayYair AgmonWalter BinghamTen conversations with ten elderly people -what does it mean to be an old person, how does one handle the accumulating years, loneliness, desire, fear of death and the tired body. Senior Moments is an intimate, humorous, and stirring attempt to explore the present life of these characters.
- CreatorRaviv DruckerStarsRaviv DruckerShlomo GazitShimon PeresDocumentary series about Israel's first Prime Ministers.
- CreatorLiya HefetzRam LandesAmi TirStarsOfir KalevA ten-episode series that accompanies the Lions of Jordan battalion, which for the first time in history has female combat soldiers training and fighting alongside men. With its activities focused on security of the Jordan Valley, the series focuses on the integration of female fighters in the IDF, following five boys and five girls from around the country, with different backgrounds and interests who, despite their differences, must join together and fight for the same goal - protection of the State of Israel and its citizens.
- StarsItay TiranObservational documentary series revealing the dramas and dilemmas faced by paramedics and staff of Israel's largest ambulance service (MADA) on a daily basis.
- CreatorEti Aneta-SegevStarsNasrin KadryGidi GovShlomo Artzi
- CreatorAlon LeviStarsRoy HasanSaar YachinDalia FallahFive prominent Israeli poets present their POV on poetry, culture and life in a way never before seen.
- CreatorLiran AtzmorBen ShaniStarsMordechai KirschenbaumThe news reports of Moti Kirschenbaum, whose immeasurable contribution to Israeli media still resonates to the present day, were broadcast over four decades on Israeli television. Over the years, many journalists considered him a beacon and followed in his footsteps. One such journalist, Ben Shani, proposed that he and Kirschenbaum set out on a journey in the footsteps of those mythological reports. Moti immediately agreed. No-one knew then that his days were numbered and that he would die suddenly, just before shooting was to start. The journey planned for two became one man's journey through the many stages in Kirschenbaum's life.
- CreatorJasmine KainyStarsShlomit BerhanuOshrat MasalaEsti AlmoThe series follows five Israelis of Ethiopian descent, who encounter racism, overt or implied, on a daily basis. In each episode, the velocity and depth of this tough racism is exposed, in every aspect of their lives: on the street, on the bus, at work, at the education system, in the media, on television, in dealing with government offices and within the Hebrew university facilities.
- CreatorOri SalyStarsTimna YogevAlona SternEfrat Tilma
- CreatorDana EdenAssaf ShusterStarsNili AnglisterRoni EliasAriela RosenzwiegA documentary series for the whole family, which tracks people involved in the rescue of wildlife in Israel while getting to know the animals being cared for by them. In each episode, viewers are exposed to two cases of wildlife that need treatment. Every case is a thrilling, exciting and enriching story.
- CreatorUri RosenwaksA look at two revolutionary movements in Israel that began in the early 1970s, the Black Panthers and Gush Emunim, and examines why one group faded while the other is still going strong.
- 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.
- CreatorLevi ZiniStarsRomy NeumarkDanny StegMenachem BeginMenachem Begin was elected prime minister in May 1977 and revolutionized the political and social reality in Israel. The series explores Begin's days in the Prime Minister's Office. With a wealth of archival materials and interviewees, who stood close to history, Begin presents a surprising and unfamiliar portrait of Israel's sixth prime minister.
- StarsYigal MoskoZan Nadir (Rare species) is a nature program that provides a fascinating view of Israel's nature and animal world in all its glory, focusing on animals, reptiles, carnivores, song birds and more.
- StarsYaël AbecassisHanna MaronDanny HustonWhat is under discussion is the actual construction of the state of Israel, its history and identity, besides the oedipal theme for an architect-filmmaker. An informed and intelligent man, Gitai manages to take his conversations to non-conventional paths, favoring open-minded thinking.
- StarsAvi PeretzLiat EfratiEphraim SiyadaThe Last League - the lowest league in soccer in Israel, focuses on people from the peripheries for whom soccer is their last chance of making it big and giving meaning to their lives. Why The Last League? Because from the bottom you can only go up.
- StarsRomy AbergelLiron MatzasNoam KanielFour Israeli teenagers undergo the process of life-and-identity-saving gender transformation in a country where military service is mandatory and Orthodox Jewish religion is the law.
- StarsYael DayanYehonatan GeffenRuth DayanFive generations, four chapters, and one lineage you thought you knew. From the Yishuv and the establishment of Israel, to the subsequent victories, defeats and disillusionment, the Dayan family story is integrally linked to the mythology and history of the state of Israel. For the first time, the story of the First Family of Israel is seen on the big screen.
- CreatorItzik LernerMika, Yuval and Ben were recruited to the Military Police Corps despite their conscientious objection. For the first time in their lives, young men and women face the constant and painful friction with the Palestinians. Locked in a fortified position day and night, in cold or hot weather, wearing heavy bullet-proof vests, these soldiers are trained to believe that at last everything drains into the fate of both nations.
- Kingdoms presents an intimate look at the Hassidic world, from history to the present day. The third episode of this series, A Suitable Helper, presents the daily lives of the male and female members of Israel's Hassidic community. How do they meet the challenges of raising children, income, education, gender, and equality? And how are these matters approached from a Hassidic point of view?
- CreatorModi Bar-OnAnat ZeltzerStarsModi Bar-OnBenny MorrisAbigail JacobsonWhat is it about our Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that won't allow it to end? Is what happened between us really so unforgiveable and unsolvable? Anat Zeltzer and Modi Bar-On return to this story once again, but this time they try to tell it, not as a quarrel is recounted but as a lesson is taught. Let's call it a refresher lesson. Let's call it a Homeland Lesson.
- CreatorAmitai AchimanStarsDaniel FinkelmanNissim BlackLipa SchmeltzerHasidistock explores the status of music in Orthodox society, outlining the creative and economic influences at work around it, how its stars are born as well as the place of women in this intriguing musical scene. Irresistible, intoxicating joy is the emotion conveyed in every frame of this spectacular film that so clearly expresses the sustenance great music provides those who work in and love the genre.
- StarsIgal NaorNadia CohenTamir PardoEli Cohen, the spy who was larger than life. Many of the mysteries surrounding the super-spy have been revealed over the years, others we might never learn, but Cohen's courage and fate have returned to public consciousness lately. A new three-part documentary tries to give viewers a sense of what Israel's legendary "man in Damascus" experienced as a working secret agent and after his capture by the Syrians.
- CreatorLiran AtzmorGal UchovskyAlon YaminStarsOrna BanaiAssi AzarDana InternationalThe Pride Revolution, a three-part documentary series on the LGBT community in Israel. It is a touching and thought-provoking examination of the LGBT community's struggle for acceptance and how this community has changed Israel.
- CreatorMatti FriedmanIsrael RosnerStarsEhud BarakYossi BeilinShelly YehimovichAfter the first Lebanon War in 1982, Israel set up a security zone in south Lebanon and for a full generation of soldiers the IDF was there, with its best troops, fighting Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorists to protect Israel from attack. Tens of thousands of Israelis served there, hundreds of soldiers were killed and more wounded. And yet, this was a conflict without a name.
- CreatorItay AsherIn 1991, after years of relative silence, Lebanon started burning. At that time, the Rehan Outpost was established - the northern outpost of the IDF in Lebanon, which in a short time he won the name - the death outpost.
- CreatorJulie ShlesStarsNaor LevyGal ZoorDasi FormerThey say that the new generation was born with their smartphone as an extension of their boy. That they are connect but very lonely . The are exposing their self with now shame but have a low self esteem . There are thousands of researches about them they were named as the z generation. Now is the time to hear them, "Stories " is a documentary series that puts the z generation in the center.
- CreatorTzvika BinderAyelet EphratiStarsEfrat FinkelShifra SchekerkaShlomi CohenNyy's (Yiddish for news) a documentary mini series on the world of Haredi media.
- StarsLihi ShacharHaifa Bay, the third largest metropolitan in the state of Israel, is a cancer-stricken area. The people are collapsing, the young people are leaving, the adults are sick - and there are those who get rich from it.
- CreatorUri Bar-OnNati DinnarStarsAmir PeretzKobi OzThe amazing story of the Iron Dome (kippat barzel).
- CreatorNaftaly GliksbergStarsNaftaly GliksbergMoshe YaalonYa'ackov AgmonDocumentary series that follows the story of the youth movements in Israel, presents a sober and complex look at the central role of the youth movements in shaping youth and Israeli society, true friendships, innocent socialism and first loves, along with great ideologies.
- StarsMoran SamuelReut RadanskyMaya OrenAsaf, a chief content editor in the television industry, paralyzed on his left side, embarks on a journey to accept his disability. Asaf meets a group of disabled people who tell their stories and discuss their daily lives with incredible honesty, providing the viewer with a rare glimpse to the lives of people with disabilities.
- CreatorReinhardt BeetzDuki DrorItai LandsbergStarsThomas FriedmanBeau MarieAmos GiladThe story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, British, Iranians, Syrians, Americans, Israelis and the Lebanese themselves, have all, at one point or another, contributed to the country's tragic history. Caught up in the chaos were the Lebanese themselves - made up of different sects, religions, and ethnicities - writing their own history in a string of political assassinations, massacres, and betrayals.
- CreatorDanny LiberYaron NiskiStarsEfrayim LapidShmuel GorenJacques NeriaA Docu-Action series on the secrets of Arab leaders through the eyes of Israeli intelligence services.
- CreatorLevi ZiniStarsLior SchillatDov WeissglasGilad SharonWhat led Ariel Sharon, known as a the 'Bulldozer', to be the first Israeli Prime Minister to begin shaping the borders of the State? In the east, the separation wall, in the south, the evacuation of Gush Katif settlements, and the building of fence on the Green Line, the border line up until 1967.
- CreatorNaftaly GliksbergStarsDalia DornerEdna ArbelMiriam NaorA docu-series examining the status of the Supreme Court in Israeli society through controversial cases discussed within its framework, through the eyes of the judges who ruled on them.
- CreatorDalia MevorachStarsOfra HazaTV series explores life of the Israeli pop star Ofra Haza.
- StarsYoav KutnerRiki GalTzruya LahavA ten-episode docu-series, focusing in each episode on the biography of an Israeli Musician- the top artists in Israel. The episodes are based on an interviews with Yoav Kutner, as part of the Mifal HaPais project for documenting creators in Israeli music, and include the treasures of the public broadcasting channel archive collections. Each episode is a musical biography of the people who created the soundtrack of Israeli Music.
- StarsEviatar PerlovitzRan MosheRoi Ben DavidWhat does it take to become a combatant soldier in the Israeli army? How does it change you? Join four Israeli youngsters - Yosef, Benda, Ran and Evya - on their long quest to be all they can be.
- CreatorAyelet BecharAhlam CanaanNicholas JacobStarsDona SaabniSeven young women and men, Arab citizens of Israel, of the Y and Z generations, are deliberating: Where to live? To stay in their parents' home or to leave? Having left, it is worthwhile to return home? These deliberations and others are at the heart of the series Near/Far,
- CreatorTsipi KarlikThey were captured in the Yom Kippur War and tortured in Egyptian prisons, but did not imagine that even when they returned to Israel they would experience abuse by the state. 301 IDF soldiers were captured by the Egyptians and Syrians during the Yom Kippur War. Even 48 years later, the prisoners say it was the darkest period of their lives, not only because of the abuses they went through, but also because of the way they were received in Israel.
- CreatorTali ShemeshAsaf SudriStarsAvi SamuelYossi ArnonYossi CohenIn Jerusalem 1986, a 14-year-old boy shoots his family point-blank in their beds. Yet questions persist. In this docuseries, insiders come forward.
- CreatorAlon DotanRoee FinziStarsAsher HavivNatalie TishlerIlan FaktorThe documentary "Free People" demonstrates the tight link between Trance culture to the Israeli society, and the way one group's depression, leads to a general threat on the very concept of freedom of a democratic, modern society.
- CreatorIlanit BaumanOshrit NavarraAvigail SperberStarsMalka TosiaNatali AsianOur female prisoners are complex women - experiencing moments of weakness and showing tremendous strength. They have dreams and wishes, children and parents. They live in conditions foreign to us, that we don't really want to know about. The follows four female prisoners behind bars, at their release, in their dreams of rehabilitation, and for some, their unavoidable relapses.
- StarsJack KellyJack KellyUdi LeviThe Cassandra Prophecy tells the story of 10 year effort of the DEA and Mossad to disrupt Hezbollah's growing involvement in cocaine trafficking as it became one of the worlds most significant cartels.