Fauda

Hollywood meets Bnei Brak: Michael Rapaport plays haredi billionaire in 'Matchmaking 3'

An Iranian singer and Yuval Raphael duet in Haifa, Fauda tops the charts in Lebanon, Sorkin takes on Zuckerberg, and Michael Rapaport goes ultra-Orthodox in a brand new Israeli film.

OCTOBER 9, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS

Michael Rapaport (center) plays haredi billionaire Michael Gerstel in 'Matchmaking 3'

Lior Raz and Melanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

‘Checkout,' ‘Fauda’ test the appetite for Israeli spy stories after October 7

Two productions arriving in the United States this month are testing whether or not there is still an appetite for Israeli spy stories in the post-October 7 world.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2026|BySTEWART AIN/JTA

Director Yuval Abraham and Director Rachel Szor winners of the Special Jury Prize for "Naza" attend a photocall on the red carpet following the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido on September 12, 2026.

Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial

Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2026|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Lior Raz and Mélanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Fifth season of 'Fauda' sparks viral international reactions to October 7-focused episodes

Within a day of its release on Netflix, the series had already ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries and was leading to new understandings of the massacre.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2026|ByMAARIV ONLINE

HOT series 'Uri and Ella' picked up by CBS

HOT confirmed on Sunday that the show was picked up by CBS, and will be written by none other than famed British writer Nick Hornby.

DECEMBER 2, 2018ByAMY SPIRO

SHLOMO BAR-ABA and Dina Senderson in the HOT show 'Uri and Ella.'

An Israeli celebrity wedding exposes difficulties for Arab-Jewish couples

Israel does not recognize interfaith weddings performed in the country, so Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian couples, and others, have to go abroad to be officially married.

NOVEMBER 30, 2018ByBEN SALES/JTA

Actor Tzachi Halevy and TV anchor Lucy Aharish at their wedding, October 10, 2018

CBS boards Israeli show from 'Fauda' writers

"District Y," about police force in Jaffa, will air on Israeli public broadcaster.

OCTOBER 25, 2018ByAMY SPIRO

Belev Echad dinner to honor stars of “Fauda" and more

Dinner to be chaired by Daniel Bernstein, Thom Waye, Gabriel Plotkin, Yaara Bank-Plotkin, Daniel Bergstein, Abhay Deshpande and Michele Shapiro and Martin Nussbaum.

OCTOBER 22, 2018BySPONSORED