The high-impact series pried open a collective national wound and led to a cathartic outpouring of emotion. The period is so painful that Israeli culture has rarely dared to grapple with it. “This was our worst trauma and our worst disaster as a country,” said Ron Leshem, who cocreated the series together with Amit Cohen, both veterans of the Israeli military’s elite 8200 intelligence unit. “We knew we had an awful responsibility.”The series, aired by the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, was 10 years in the making with a multimillion-dollar budget far exceeding those of typical Israeli productions. It featured heart-stopping recreations of epic tank battles in their original locations in the Golan Heights, which Israel had seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2020 09:00 UTC