Respectable single father and tour boat captain Chico fights tooth and nail to maintain custody of his dear son Ben while developing a romantic relationship with beautiful lawyer Galia.
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| Yehuda Barkan | ... | Yitzhak 'Chiko' Ben David | |
| Alona Kimhi | ... | Galia Reshef | |
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Ben Tzion | ... | Ben Ben David |
| Keren Mor | ... | Maggie Weinberg | |
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Uri Shamir | ... | Lawyer Natan Kugler |
| Gita Luka | ... | Sonia | |
| Lenny Ravitz | ... | Sam Weinberg (as Leni Ravitz) | |
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Dan Harden | ... | Judge |
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Zare Vartanian | ... | Morduch |
| Yaacov Cohen | ... | Beber | |
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Yarden Ross | ... | Tina |
| Arie Tcherner | ... | Ringo (as Aryeh Cherner) | |
| Ilana Berkovitz | ... | Efrat Reshef | |
| Yael Amit | ... | Shula | |
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Dodi Shoshani | ||
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Respectable single father and tour boat captain Chico fights tooth and nail to maintain custody of his dear son Ben while developing a romantic relationship with beautiful lawyer Galia.
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Abba Ganuv (1988), "Cool Dad" in a loose translation, is the heart warming story of single father "chiko Ben David" a struggling sailor and his only son "Ben".
this story,spreading over 3 sequels, is all about the struggle of a father and his son to stay together in spite of the mother's constant attempts to claim her son back after years of leaving him since he was a baby, in order to find a better life for herself.