Israeli series with Fauda actor becomes a Netflix success – Israel Culture
A body that worksKeshet International’s new series about a Tel Aviv couple (Rotem Sela and Yehuda Levi) who cannot have a baby and hire a surrogate mother (Gal Malka) is certainly going down well for Netflix, which is streaming the series worldwide.
On Tuesday, Netflix announced that the series is among the top 10 in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland and Romania, among others. The series has been available on the platform for less than a month, in its original Hebrew version. It stars Fauda’s Lior Raz as a work colleague of the character played by Sela.
The series made headlines in 2023 when its two leading actresses, Sela and Malka, shared the award for Best Actress in the international Panorama competition at the prestigious Series Mania competition in France. The series’ creators were Shira Hadad and Dror Mishani (who both worked on the series Wisdom of the Crowd) and Shay Capon (Dumb), who also directed.
Following in the footsteps of other Israeli series
Other Israeli series such as Fauda have performed well internationally on Netflix, with the third season regularly reaching the top 10 worldwide, including in Arab countries such as Lebanon. In 2023, four seasons of the series were at one point in the Lebanese Netflix top 10, including the recently released fourth season, which ranked second on the list. The series, with about half of its dialogue in Arabic, is about an Israeli counterterrorism unit operating in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon and Europe.
“Shtisel,” a series about an ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem, was also very popular on Netflix.
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