Raz’s Characters on “Fauda”

For the millions of viewers who hungrily binged three seasons of “Fauda” on Netflix, the parallels between Raz’s characters on the two series will be striking. Again, we begin with Raz ensconced in a quiet, happy family life until, in the opening episode, he is dragged into bloodshed and violence, pulled from his idyll by lingering retributions of an inescapable past. “Lior and I know that there is some kind of mechanism, an unseen button, where when you push it, someone else comes out of you,” Issacharoff said.

And again, Raz has infused the show with emotional artifacts from his past. In “Fauda,” he leaned on his experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder to bring Doron to life. In “Hit & Run,” even the names of his characters, including that of Segev’s murdered wife, are loaded with meaning.

Raz — who lost a serious girlfriend named Iris Azulai in a Palestinian terror attack when he was 19 — plunged headfirst into his own painful memories to inhabit the story. “I didn’t talk about Iris for a long time, until Avi and I started to write,” Raz said. “It started with ‘Fauda’ and now, with ‘Hit & Run,’ it’s gone deeper.”

But most of it came from within.

What Is Fauda?

Fauda is an intense political Israeli television thriller. So I’m pretty sure that if you’ve already seen it, you must be wondering how the creators of the show came up with something like this. Is it possibly based on real-life operations of the military unit that has been depicted?

The term “Duvdevan” translates to “Cherry” in Hebrew and literally implies that the unit serves as Cherry to the top of the Israeli Defence services. Joining the military services is a compulsion in Israel, for both men and women. Even the two developers of the show, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have served in the Israeli Defense Forces and they’ve drawn inspirations for its storyline based on their own personal experiences.

In one of his interviews, Lior Raz, also explains how the show acquired its name: “In Arabic, “fauda” means chaos. In the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was the first intifada that began in Israel. The Arab population started to use this word “fauda” as a symbol for “let’s go out and demonstrate.”

They would call on the Walkie-talkie and say “Listen, we have fauda.” This was the code for the rescuers to come.” Lior Raz also lost his girlfriend in terrorism and the one episode in the series that specifically deals with terrorism is actually dedicated to her.

After ‘Fauda’ became a huge hit in Arab Countries, many viewers started wondering if the show’s depiction of Israeli Special Forces and Palestinian militants is accurate or not. That’s when BBC even created a documentary, titled ‘The Real Fauda‘, which literally walks you through the entire background reality of the show. The documentary nosedives into the secretive world of the real-life operatives and draws several parallels between the events of the show and the real lives of the operatives.

Although the deep-cover intelligence operations depicted in the show are very complex in real life and have a lot more at stake, the show manages to portray a pretty accurate depiction of these. Adding to this, the former IDF—who also happens to be friends with the creators of the show—added that the cultural and administrative representation of the Duvdevan Unit in the show is not all that accurate. In conclusion, ‘Fauda’s representation of Palestinian society and culture may have several discrepancies but at the same time, many aspects of its story are also grounded to reality; especially how it deals with the tactical side of the Duvdevan Unit.

What Is The Arabic Word For Chaos?

I hate to be a sheep, as well as people “should-ing” on me, and normally, I ignore what people tell me I must do, yet with so many friends and family telling me I should watch Netflix’s hugely popular series, FAUDA, I listened. And yes, I am now hooked. FAUDA (the Arabic word for chaos), is indeed a chaotic, tense, and totally dramatic TV drama series based around a secret Israeli counter-terrorist unit.

The writers and directors are Oren Rosenfeld of Holy Land Productions & Jane Corbin of BBC Panorama fame, and, whom this Sunday will be at the aforementioned one-off screening to answer my questions as well as those of the viewing audience. First of all, some facts I was surprised to hear. The movie The Real FAUDA was made for BBC Arabic.

Talk about reliving their past. Oren himself also met with Zakaria Zubeidi, formerly on Israel’s most wanted list. He’s watched it and says it is very realistic.

I’ve not seen The Real FAUDA, but I have to say that whilst watching Fauda the Netflix series, the questions I myself, have pondered as well as others about the show, seem likely to be answered by this fascinating insight into the reality of the programme. I genuinely can’t wait to see the film, The Real Fauda, and yes, to find out more from the directors, Jane & Oren about their experience in the making of it.

How Many Israelis Have Entered Gaza In The Last 15 Years?

As a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, I understand that a lot of Israelis, and many viewers worldwide, genuinely believe that the Netflix series ‘Fauda’ presents an informed, even neutral, point of view about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Since the only other border is the sea, that means there is no way out and few ways in, too. Very few Israelis may have entered Gaza in the last 15 years.

They showed how dirty and contaminated the water is there. But the reality is worse than even the most dystopian television script: 38 percent of the population lives in poverty. 39 percent of the youth are unemployed, and over 90 percent of the water is undrinkable.

It is true that we Arabs tend to use the word habibi beyond its actual meaning, but almost never towards someone random of the opposite gender, and definitely not in Gaza. Using habibi in that way is an Israelism. Open gallery view Billboard with Arabic and Hebrew writing promoting the second season for the Israeli television series Fauda in Tel Aviv.

They introduce themselves as traders from the West Bank and Eli announces he is getting married in Gaza tonight. Every chance that they have, Fauda’s writers present the Israeli commandos as personally and operationally principled, lingering on their deep concern for protecting the civilians of Gaza, going out of their way to fulfil their promise to the family of the Palestinian informer who supported them. Near Rafah refugee camp, Gaza, August 4, 2014 Credit: AFP But this is Fauda’s war on truth.

Gaza City, April 20, 2020 Credit: AFP Having a future fourth season based in the Palestinian territories, whether Gaza or the West Bank, would push the limits of credibility too far, after three seasons of serially blowing up both their cover and having exhausted their authentic Palestinian schtick. If so, I hope the writers and producers take more seriously their responsibility to present a more faithful social and political reality. Fauda can do better.

What Is The Main Theme Of Fauda?

Because I’ve spent most of my Ramadans outside the Arab world—often without access to the region’s popular TV channels—I’ve never been able to enjoy these shows the way my family members in the region might. Which show I watch depends on whatever Netflix has on offer at the time. Arabic-speaking soldiers pose as Palestinian civilians to apprehend suspected terrorists in the West Bank.

Why are you watching a show that glorifies Israel’s decades-long military occupation of a people—our people? I watched because I wanted to see how a show lauded in some quarters for its evenhanded portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depicts the players on either side of it, including Hamas. It made me feel closer to my ancestral home, even while depicting scenes of violence within it.

That this was Israeli violence against Palestinians made it even worse, and from her perspective belittled the lives of those portrayed. “This is a TV show—it’s not a political manifesto,” he told me in a phone call last week, noting that the idea was simply to give Israeli viewers a different perspective on the conflict. “I would say that a major theme in Fauda is the occupation … We’ve seen terrible things that the Israeli side is doing during the show, and for some reason they’ve been missed.”

It’s an Israeli story about an Israeli unit, told from the vantage point of an Israeli lead, Doron Kabilio (Lior Raz), and the rest of the Mista’aravim. Yet Fauda doesn’t ignore the Palestinian perspective. The show also highlights the inherent power imbalances between Israelis and Palestinians, perhaps best showcased in the romantic relationship between Doron and Shirin.

“I just understand my vision of it, my point of view,” she said, noting her identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Acre. All they care about is having each other, having a chance to live their life, having the chance to raise their baby together.” Umm Nidal (Raida Adon) and Marwa Awdallah (Luna Mansour) in season two of Fauda (Netflix) Mansour told me she has gotten responses for her involvement in Fauda, which she and her Palestinian co-stars expected.

Although it does better than most shows and movies at depicting certain facets of the conflict, like most shows it can’t accurately represent every perspective—a limitation that even its creators concede—and for that reason it sometimes had me yelling at the screen. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting or binge-worthy TV.

What Is The Name Of The Elite Special Ops Unit Within The Israeli Army Called?

“Fauda” tells the story of an elite special ops unit within the Israeli army called “mista’arvim,” undercover commandos carrying out secret missions within Palestinian territories. The hit Netflix drama is based on one of the top real-life “mista’arvim” units called “Duvdevan,” which is assigned specifically to the West Bank and boasts the show’s co-creator and writer, Lior Raz, as one of its graduates. The name “Duvdevan” means cherry in Hebrew, as in the cherry on top of the Israel Defense Forces.

Getting in comes with some serious bragging rights. Also Read: ‘Fauda’ Returns: How a Show About an Israeli Counterterrorism Unit Became a Global Sensation (Video) Training includes a disguise course, perfecting the Arabic Palestinian dialect and getting punched in the stomach before going to bed. “Every night before bedtime, you stand up like this and you get some punched in the stomach, in the abdomen to see if your muscles are strong enough,” Nimrod Astel, a former “Duvdevan” fighter and a stunt choreographer on the show, told TheWrap.

How did this unit come about? And what’s it like being a member of one of the IDF’s toughest undercover special ops forces? Also Read: Why ‘Fauda’ Is the Best-Kept Secret on Netflix In this second of three videos, sponsored by Netflix, TheWrap goes inside the real-life “Fauda.”

For the millions of viewers who hungrily binged three seasons of “Fauda” on Netflix, the parallels between Raz’s characters on the two series will be striking. Again, we begin with Raz ensconced in a quiet, happy family life until, in the opening episode, he is dragged into bloodshed and violence, pulled from his idyll by lingering retributions of an inescapable past. “Lior and I know that there is some kind of mechanism, an unseen button, where when you push it, someone else comes out of you,” Issacharoff said.

And again, Raz has infused the show with emotional artifacts from his past. In “Fauda,” he leaned on his experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder to bring Doron to life. In “Hit & Run,” even the names of his characters, including that of Segev’s murdered wife, are loaded with meaning.

Raz — who lost a serious girlfriend named Iris Azulai in a Palestinian terror attack when he was 19 — plunged headfirst into his own painful memories to inhabit the story. “I didn’t talk about Iris for a long time, until Avi and I started to write,” Raz said. “It started with ‘Fauda’ and now, with ‘Hit & Run,’ it’s gone deeper.”

But most of it came from within.

What Is Fauda?

Fauda is an intense political Israeli television thriller. So I’m pretty sure that if you’ve already seen it, you must be wondering how the creators of the show came up with something like this. Is it possibly based on real-life operations of the military unit that has been depicted?

The term “Duvdevan” translates to “Cherry” in Hebrew and literally implies that the unit serves as Cherry to the top of the Israeli Defence services. Joining the military services is a compulsion in Israel, for both men and women. Even the two developers of the show, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have served in the Israeli Defense Forces and they’ve drawn inspirations for its storyline based on their own personal experiences.

In one of his interviews, Lior Raz, also explains how the show acquired its name: “In Arabic, “fauda” means chaos. In the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was the first intifada that began in Israel. The Arab population started to use this word “fauda” as a symbol for “let’s go out and demonstrate.”

They would call on the Walkie-talkie and say “Listen, we have fauda.” This was the code for the rescuers to come.” Lior Raz also lost his girlfriend in terrorism and the one episode in the series that specifically deals with terrorism is actually dedicated to her.

After ‘Fauda’ became a huge hit in Arab Countries, many viewers started wondering if the show’s depiction of Israeli Special Forces and Palestinian militants is accurate or not. That’s when BBC even created a documentary, titled ‘The Real Fauda‘, which literally walks you through the entire background reality of the show. The documentary nosedives into the secretive world of the real-life operatives and draws several parallels between the events of the show and the real lives of the operatives.

Although the deep-cover intelligence operations depicted in the show are very complex in real life and have a lot more at stake, the show manages to portray a pretty accurate depiction of these. Adding to this, the former IDF—who also happens to be friends with the creators of the show—added that the cultural and administrative representation of the Duvdevan Unit in the show is not all that accurate. In conclusion, ‘Fauda’s representation of Palestinian society and culture may have several discrepancies but at the same time, many aspects of its story are also grounded to reality; especially how it deals with the tactical side of the Duvdevan Unit.

What Is The Arabic Word For Chaos?

I hate to be a sheep, as well as people “should-ing” on me, and normally, I ignore what people tell me I must do, yet with so many friends and family telling me I should watch Netflix’s hugely popular series, FAUDA, I listened. And yes, I am now hooked. FAUDA (the Arabic word for chaos), is indeed a chaotic, tense, and totally dramatic TV drama series based around a secret Israeli counter-terrorist unit.

The writers and directors are Oren Rosenfeld of Holy Land Productions & Jane Corbin of BBC Panorama fame, and, whom this Sunday will be at the aforementioned one-off screening to answer my questions as well as those of the viewing audience. First of all, some facts I was surprised to hear. The movie The Real FAUDA was made for BBC Arabic.

Talk about reliving their past. Oren himself also met with Zakaria Zubeidi, formerly on Israel’s most wanted list. He’s watched it and says it is very realistic.

I’ve not seen The Real FAUDA, but I have to say that whilst watching Fauda the Netflix series, the questions I myself, have pondered as well as others about the show, seem likely to be answered by this fascinating insight into the reality of the programme. I genuinely can’t wait to see the film, The Real Fauda, and yes, to find out more from the directors, Jane & Oren about their experience in the making of it.

How Many Israelis Have Entered Gaza In The Last 15 Years?

As a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, I understand that a lot of Israelis, and many viewers worldwide, genuinely believe that the Netflix series ‘Fauda’ presents an informed, even neutral, point of view about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Since the only other border is the sea, that means there is no way out and few ways in, too. Very few Israelis may have entered Gaza in the last 15 years.

They showed how dirty and contaminated the water is there. But the reality is worse than even the most dystopian television script: 38 percent of the population lives in poverty. 39 percent of the youth are unemployed, and over 90 percent of the water is undrinkable.

It is true that we Arabs tend to use the word habibi beyond its actual meaning, but almost never towards someone random of the opposite gender, and definitely not in Gaza. Using habibi in that way is an Israelism. Open gallery view Billboard with Arabic and Hebrew writing promoting the second season for the Israeli television series Fauda in Tel Aviv.

They introduce themselves as traders from the West Bank and Eli announces he is getting married in Gaza tonight. Every chance that they have, Fauda’s writers present the Israeli commandos as personally and operationally principled, lingering on their deep concern for protecting the civilians of Gaza, going out of their way to fulfil their promise to the family of the Palestinian informer who supported them. Near Rafah refugee camp, Gaza, August 4, 2014 Credit: AFP But this is Fauda’s war on truth.

Gaza City, April 20, 2020 Credit: AFP Having a future fourth season based in the Palestinian territories, whether Gaza or the West Bank, would push the limits of credibility too far, after three seasons of serially blowing up both their cover and having exhausted their authentic Palestinian schtick. If so, I hope the writers and producers take more seriously their responsibility to present a more faithful social and political reality. Fauda can do better.

What Is The Main Theme Of Fauda?

Because I’ve spent most of my Ramadans outside the Arab world—often without access to the region’s popular TV channels—I’ve never been able to enjoy these shows the way my family members in the region might. Which show I watch depends on whatever Netflix has on offer at the time. Arabic-speaking soldiers pose as Palestinian civilians to apprehend suspected terrorists in the West Bank.

Why are you watching a show that glorifies Israel’s decades-long military occupation of a people—our people? I watched because I wanted to see how a show lauded in some quarters for its evenhanded portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depicts the players on either side of it, including Hamas. It made me feel closer to my ancestral home, even while depicting scenes of violence within it.

That this was Israeli violence against Palestinians made it even worse, and from her perspective belittled the lives of those portrayed. “This is a TV show—it’s not a political manifesto,” he told me in a phone call last week, noting that the idea was simply to give Israeli viewers a different perspective on the conflict. “I would say that a major theme in Fauda is the occupation … We’ve seen terrible things that the Israeli side is doing during the show, and for some reason they’ve been missed.”

It’s an Israeli story about an Israeli unit, told from the vantage point of an Israeli lead, Doron Kabilio (Lior Raz), and the rest of the Mista’aravim. Yet Fauda doesn’t ignore the Palestinian perspective. The show also highlights the inherent power imbalances between Israelis and Palestinians, perhaps best showcased in the romantic relationship between Doron and Shirin.

“I just understand my vision of it, my point of view,” she said, noting her identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Acre. All they care about is having each other, having a chance to live their life, having the chance to raise their baby together.” Umm Nidal (Raida Adon) and Marwa Awdallah (Luna Mansour) in season two of Fauda (Netflix) Mansour told me she has gotten responses for her involvement in Fauda, which she and her Palestinian co-stars expected.

Although it does better than most shows and movies at depicting certain facets of the conflict, like most shows it can’t accurately represent every perspective—a limitation that even its creators concede—and for that reason it sometimes had me yelling at the screen. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting or binge-worthy TV.

What Is The Name Of The Elite Special Ops Unit Within The Israeli Army Called?

“Fauda” tells the story of an elite special ops unit within the Israeli army called “mista’arvim,” undercover commandos carrying out secret missions within Palestinian territories. The hit Netflix drama is based on one of the top real-life “mista’arvim” units called “Duvdevan,” which is assigned specifically to the West Bank and boasts the show’s co-creator and writer, Lior Raz, as one of its graduates. The name “Duvdevan” means cherry in Hebrew, as in the cherry on top of the Israel Defense Forces.

Getting in comes with some serious bragging rights. Also Read: ‘Fauda’ Returns: How a Show About an Israeli Counterterrorism Unit Became a Global Sensation (Video) Training includes a disguise course, perfecting the Arabic Palestinian dialect and getting punched in the stomach before going to bed. “Every night before bedtime, you stand up like this and you get some punched in the stomach, in the abdomen to see if your muscles are strong enough,” Nimrod Astel, a former “Duvdevan” fighter and a stunt choreographer on the show, told TheWrap.

How did this unit come about? And what’s it like being a member of one of the IDF’s toughest undercover special ops forces? Also Read: Why ‘Fauda’ Is the Best-Kept Secret on Netflix In this second of three videos, sponsored by Netflix, TheWrap goes inside the real-life “Fauda.”

For the millions of viewers who hungrily binged three seasons of “Fauda” on Netflix, the parallels between Raz’s characters on the two series will be striking. Again, we begin with Raz ensconced in a quiet, happy family life until, in the opening episode, he is dragged into bloodshed and violence, pulled from his idyll by lingering retributions of an inescapable past. “Lior and I know that there is some kind of mechanism, an unseen button, where when you push it, someone else comes out of you,” Issacharoff said.

And again, Raz has infused the show with emotional artifacts from his past. In “Fauda,” he leaned on his experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder to bring Doron to life. In “Hit & Run,” even the names of his characters, including that of Segev’s murdered wife, are loaded with meaning.

Raz — who lost a serious girlfriend named Iris Azulai in a Palestinian terror attack when he was 19 — plunged headfirst into his own painful memories to inhabit the story. “I didn’t talk about Iris for a long time, until Avi and I started to write,” Raz said. “It started with ‘Fauda’ and now, with ‘Hit & Run,’ it’s gone deeper.”

But most of it came from within.

What Is Fauda?

Fauda is an intense political Israeli television thriller. So I’m pretty sure that if you’ve already seen it, you must be wondering how the creators of the show came up with something like this. Is it possibly based on real-life operations of the military unit that has been depicted?

The term “Duvdevan” translates to “Cherry” in Hebrew and literally implies that the unit serves as Cherry to the top of the Israeli Defence services. Joining the military services is a compulsion in Israel, for both men and women. Even the two developers of the show, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have served in the Israeli Defense Forces and they’ve drawn inspirations for its storyline based on their own personal experiences.

In one of his interviews, Lior Raz, also explains how the show acquired its name: “In Arabic, “fauda” means chaos. In the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was the first intifada that began in Israel. The Arab population started to use this word “fauda” as a symbol for “let’s go out and demonstrate.”

They would call on the Walkie-talkie and say “Listen, we have fauda.” This was the code for the rescuers to come.” Lior Raz also lost his girlfriend in terrorism and the one episode in the series that specifically deals with terrorism is actually dedicated to her.

After ‘Fauda’ became a huge hit in Arab Countries, many viewers started wondering if the show’s depiction of Israeli Special Forces and Palestinian militants is accurate or not. That’s when BBC even created a documentary, titled ‘The Real Fauda‘, which literally walks you through the entire background reality of the show. The documentary nosedives into the secretive world of the real-life operatives and draws several parallels between the events of the show and the real lives of the operatives.

Although the deep-cover intelligence operations depicted in the show are very complex in real life and have a lot more at stake, the show manages to portray a pretty accurate depiction of these. Adding to this, the former IDF—who also happens to be friends with the creators of the show—added that the cultural and administrative representation of the Duvdevan Unit in the show is not all that accurate. In conclusion, ‘Fauda’s representation of Palestinian society and culture may have several discrepancies but at the same time, many aspects of its story are also grounded to reality; especially how it deals with the tactical side of the Duvdevan Unit.

What Is The Arabic Word For Chaos?

I hate to be a sheep, as well as people “should-ing” on me, and normally, I ignore what people tell me I must do, yet with so many friends and family telling me I should watch Netflix’s hugely popular series, FAUDA, I listened. And yes, I am now hooked. FAUDA (the Arabic word for chaos), is indeed a chaotic, tense, and totally dramatic TV drama series based around a secret Israeli counter-terrorist unit.

The writers and directors are Oren Rosenfeld of Holy Land Productions & Jane Corbin of BBC Panorama fame, and, whom this Sunday will be at the aforementioned one-off screening to answer my questions as well as those of the viewing audience. First of all, some facts I was surprised to hear. The movie The Real FAUDA was made for BBC Arabic.

Talk about reliving their past. Oren himself also met with Zakaria Zubeidi, formerly on Israel’s most wanted list. He’s watched it and says it is very realistic.

I’ve not seen The Real FAUDA, but I have to say that whilst watching Fauda the Netflix series, the questions I myself, have pondered as well as others about the show, seem likely to be answered by this fascinating insight into the reality of the programme. I genuinely can’t wait to see the film, The Real Fauda, and yes, to find out more from the directors, Jane & Oren about their experience in the making of it.

How Many Israelis Have Entered Gaza In The Last 15 Years?

As a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, I understand that a lot of Israelis, and many viewers worldwide, genuinely believe that the Netflix series ‘Fauda’ presents an informed, even neutral, point of view about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Since the only other border is the sea, that means there is no way out and few ways in, too. Very few Israelis may have entered Gaza in the last 15 years.

They showed how dirty and contaminated the water is there. But the reality is worse than even the most dystopian television script: 38 percent of the population lives in poverty. 39 percent of the youth are unemployed, and over 90 percent of the water is undrinkable.

It is true that we Arabs tend to use the word habibi beyond its actual meaning, but almost never towards someone random of the opposite gender, and definitely not in Gaza. Using habibi in that way is an Israelism. Open gallery view Billboard with Arabic and Hebrew writing promoting the second season for the Israeli television series Fauda in Tel Aviv.

They introduce themselves as traders from the West Bank and Eli announces he is getting married in Gaza tonight. Every chance that they have, Fauda’s writers present the Israeli commandos as personally and operationally principled, lingering on their deep concern for protecting the civilians of Gaza, going out of their way to fulfil their promise to the family of the Palestinian informer who supported them. Near Rafah refugee camp, Gaza, August 4, 2014 Credit: AFP But this is Fauda’s war on truth.

Gaza City, April 20, 2020 Credit: AFP Having a future fourth season based in the Palestinian territories, whether Gaza or the West Bank, would push the limits of credibility too far, after three seasons of serially blowing up both their cover and having exhausted their authentic Palestinian schtick. If so, I hope the writers and producers take more seriously their responsibility to present a more faithful social and political reality. Fauda can do better.

What Is The Main Theme Of Fauda?

Because I’ve spent most of my Ramadans outside the Arab world—often without access to the region’s popular TV channels—I’ve never been able to enjoy these shows the way my family members in the region might. Which show I watch depends on whatever Netflix has on offer at the time. Arabic-speaking soldiers pose as Palestinian civilians to apprehend suspected terrorists in the West Bank.

Why are you watching a show that glorifies Israel’s decades-long military occupation of a people—our people? I watched because I wanted to see how a show lauded in some quarters for its evenhanded portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depicts the players on either side of it, including Hamas. It made me feel closer to my ancestral home, even while depicting scenes of violence within it.

That this was Israeli violence against Palestinians made it even worse, and from her perspective belittled the lives of those portrayed. “This is a TV show—it’s not a political manifesto,” he told me in a phone call last week, noting that the idea was simply to give Israeli viewers a different perspective on the conflict. “I would say that a major theme in Fauda is the occupation … We’ve seen terrible things that the Israeli side is doing during the show, and for some reason they’ve been missed.”

It’s an Israeli story about an Israeli unit, told from the vantage point of an Israeli lead, Doron Kabilio (Lior Raz), and the rest of the Mista’aravim. Yet Fauda doesn’t ignore the Palestinian perspective. The show also highlights the inherent power imbalances between Israelis and Palestinians, perhaps best showcased in the romantic relationship between Doron and Shirin.

“I just understand my vision of it, my point of view,” she said, noting her identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Acre. All they care about is having each other, having a chance to live their life, having the chance to raise their baby together.” Umm Nidal (Raida Adon) and Marwa Awdallah (Luna Mansour) in season two of Fauda (Netflix) Mansour told me she has gotten responses for her involvement in Fauda, which she and her Palestinian co-stars expected.

Although it does better than most shows and movies at depicting certain facets of the conflict, like most shows it can’t accurately represent every perspective—a limitation that even its creators concede—and for that reason it sometimes had me yelling at the screen. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting or binge-worthy TV.

What Is The Name Of The Elite Special Ops Unit Within The Israeli Army Called?

“Fauda” tells the story of an elite special ops unit within the Israeli army called “mista’arvim,” undercover commandos carrying out secret missions within Palestinian territories. The hit Netflix drama is based on one of the top real-life “mista’arvim” units called “Duvdevan,” which is assigned specifically to the West Bank and boasts the show’s co-creator and writer, Lior Raz, as one of its graduates. The name “Duvdevan” means cherry in Hebrew, as in the cherry on top of the Israel Defense Forces.

Getting in comes with some serious bragging rights. Also Read: ‘Fauda’ Returns: How a Show About an Israeli Counterterrorism Unit Became a Global Sensation (Video) Training includes a disguise course, perfecting the Arabic Palestinian dialect and getting punched in the stomach before going to bed. “Every night before bedtime, you stand up like this and you get some punched in the stomach, in the abdomen to see if your muscles are strong enough,” Nimrod Astel, a former “Duvdevan” fighter and a stunt choreographer on the show, told TheWrap.

How did this unit come about? And what’s it like being a member of one of the IDF’s toughest undercover special ops forces? Also Read: Why ‘Fauda’ Is the Best-Kept Secret on Netflix In this second of three videos, sponsored by Netflix, TheWrap goes inside the real-life “Fauda.”

For the millions of viewers who hungrily binged three seasons of “Fauda” on Netflix, the parallels between Raz’s characters on the two series will be striking. Again, we begin with Raz ensconced in a quiet, happy family life until, in the opening episode, he is dragged into bloodshed and violence, pulled from his idyll by lingering retributions of an inescapable past. “Lior and I know that there is some kind of mechanism, an unseen button, where when you push it, someone else comes out of you,” Issacharoff said.

And again, Raz has infused the show with emotional artifacts from his past. In “Fauda,” he leaned on his experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder to bring Doron to life. In “Hit & Run,” even the names of his characters, including that of Segev’s murdered wife, are loaded with meaning.

Raz — who lost a serious girlfriend named Iris Azulai in a Palestinian terror attack when he was 19 — plunged headfirst into his own painful memories to inhabit the story. “I didn’t talk about Iris for a long time, until Avi and I started to write,” Raz said. “It started with ‘Fauda’ and now, with ‘Hit & Run,’ it’s gone deeper.”

But most of it came from within.

What Is Fauda?

Fauda is an intense political Israeli television thriller. So I’m pretty sure that if you’ve already seen it, you must be wondering how the creators of the show came up with something like this. Is it possibly based on real-life operations of the military unit that has been depicted?

The term “Duvdevan” translates to “Cherry” in Hebrew and literally implies that the unit serves as Cherry to the top of the Israeli Defence services. Joining the military services is a compulsion in Israel, for both men and women. Even the two developers of the show, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff have served in the Israeli Defense Forces and they’ve drawn inspirations for its storyline based on their own personal experiences.

In one of his interviews, Lior Raz, also explains how the show acquired its name: “In Arabic, “fauda” means chaos. In the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was the first intifada that began in Israel. The Arab population started to use this word “fauda” as a symbol for “let’s go out and demonstrate.”

They would call on the Walkie-talkie and say “Listen, we have fauda.” This was the code for the rescuers to come.” Lior Raz also lost his girlfriend in terrorism and the one episode in the series that specifically deals with terrorism is actually dedicated to her.

After ‘Fauda’ became a huge hit in Arab Countries, many viewers started wondering if the show’s depiction of Israeli Special Forces and Palestinian militants is accurate or not. That’s when BBC even created a documentary, titled ‘The Real Fauda‘, which literally walks you through the entire background reality of the show. The documentary nosedives into the secretive world of the real-life operatives and draws several parallels between the events of the show and the real lives of the operatives.

Although the deep-cover intelligence operations depicted in the show are very complex in real life and have a lot more at stake, the show manages to portray a pretty accurate depiction of these. Adding to this, the former IDF—who also happens to be friends with the creators of the show—added that the cultural and administrative representation of the Duvdevan Unit in the show is not all that accurate. In conclusion, ‘Fauda’s representation of Palestinian society and culture may have several discrepancies but at the same time, many aspects of its story are also grounded to reality; especially how it deals with the tactical side of the Duvdevan Unit.

What Is The Arabic Word For Chaos?

I hate to be a sheep, as well as people “should-ing” on me, and normally, I ignore what people tell me I must do, yet with so many friends and family telling me I should watch Netflix’s hugely popular series, FAUDA, I listened. And yes, I am now hooked. FAUDA (the Arabic word for chaos), is indeed a chaotic, tense, and totally dramatic TV drama series based around a secret Israeli counter-terrorist unit.

The writers and directors are Oren Rosenfeld of Holy Land Productions & Jane Corbin of BBC Panorama fame, and, whom this Sunday will be at the aforementioned one-off screening to answer my questions as well as those of the viewing audience. First of all, some facts I was surprised to hear. The movie The Real FAUDA was made for BBC Arabic.

Talk about reliving their past. Oren himself also met with Zakaria Zubeidi, formerly on Israel’s most wanted list. He’s watched it and says it is very realistic.

I’ve not seen The Real FAUDA, but I have to say that whilst watching Fauda the Netflix series, the questions I myself, have pondered as well as others about the show, seem likely to be answered by this fascinating insight into the reality of the programme. I genuinely can’t wait to see the film, The Real Fauda, and yes, to find out more from the directors, Jane & Oren about their experience in the making of it.

How Many Israelis Have Entered Gaza In The Last 15 Years?

As a Palestinian living in the occupied territories, I understand that a lot of Israelis, and many viewers worldwide, genuinely believe that the Netflix series ‘Fauda’ presents an informed, even neutral, point of view about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Since the only other border is the sea, that means there is no way out and few ways in, too. Very few Israelis may have entered Gaza in the last 15 years.

They showed how dirty and contaminated the water is there. But the reality is worse than even the most dystopian television script: 38 percent of the population lives in poverty. 39 percent of the youth are unemployed, and over 90 percent of the water is undrinkable.

It is true that we Arabs tend to use the word habibi beyond its actual meaning, but almost never towards someone random of the opposite gender, and definitely not in Gaza. Using habibi in that way is an Israelism. Open gallery view Billboard with Arabic and Hebrew writing promoting the second season for the Israeli television series Fauda in Tel Aviv.

They introduce themselves as traders from the West Bank and Eli announces he is getting married in Gaza tonight. Every chance that they have, Fauda’s writers present the Israeli commandos as personally and operationally principled, lingering on their deep concern for protecting the civilians of Gaza, going out of their way to fulfil their promise to the family of the Palestinian informer who supported them. Near Rafah refugee camp, Gaza, August 4, 2014 Credit: AFP But this is Fauda’s war on truth.

Gaza City, April 20, 2020 Credit: AFP Having a future fourth season based in the Palestinian territories, whether Gaza or the West Bank, would push the limits of credibility too far, after three seasons of serially blowing up both their cover and having exhausted their authentic Palestinian schtick. If so, I hope the writers and producers take more seriously their responsibility to present a more faithful social and political reality. Fauda can do better.

What Is The Main Theme Of Fauda?

Because I’ve spent most of my Ramadans outside the Arab world—often without access to the region’s popular TV channels—I’ve never been able to enjoy these shows the way my family members in the region might. Which show I watch depends on whatever Netflix has on offer at the time. Arabic-speaking soldiers pose as Palestinian civilians to apprehend suspected terrorists in the West Bank.

Why are you watching a show that glorifies Israel’s decades-long military occupation of a people—our people? I watched because I wanted to see how a show lauded in some quarters for its evenhanded portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depicts the players on either side of it, including Hamas. It made me feel closer to my ancestral home, even while depicting scenes of violence within it.

That this was Israeli violence against Palestinians made it even worse, and from her perspective belittled the lives of those portrayed. “This is a TV show—it’s not a political manifesto,” he told me in a phone call last week, noting that the idea was simply to give Israeli viewers a different perspective on the conflict. “I would say that a major theme in Fauda is the occupation … We’ve seen terrible things that the Israeli side is doing during the show, and for some reason they’ve been missed.”

It’s an Israeli story about an Israeli unit, told from the vantage point of an Israeli lead, Doron Kabilio (Lior Raz), and the rest of the Mista’aravim. Yet Fauda doesn’t ignore the Palestinian perspective. The show also highlights the inherent power imbalances between Israelis and Palestinians, perhaps best showcased in the romantic relationship between Doron and Shirin.

“I just understand my vision of it, my point of view,” she said, noting her identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Acre. All they care about is having each other, having a chance to live their life, having the chance to raise their baby together.” Umm Nidal (Raida Adon) and Marwa Awdallah (Luna Mansour) in season two of Fauda (Netflix) Mansour told me she has gotten responses for her involvement in Fauda, which she and her Palestinian co-stars expected.

Although it does better than most shows and movies at depicting certain facets of the conflict, like most shows it can’t accurately represent every perspective—a limitation that even its creators concede—and for that reason it sometimes had me yelling at the screen. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting or binge-worthy TV.

What Is The Name Of The Elite Special Ops Unit Within The Israeli Army Called?

“Fauda” tells the story of an elite special ops unit within the Israeli army called “mista’arvim,” undercover commandos carrying out secret missions within Palestinian territories. The hit Netflix drama is based on one of the top real-life “mista’arvim” units called “Duvdevan,” which is assigned specifically to the West Bank and boasts the show’s co-creator and writer, Lior Raz, as one of its graduates. The name “Duvdevan” means cherry in Hebrew, as in the cherry on top of the Israel Defense Forces.

Getting in comes with some serious bragging rights. Also Read: ‘Fauda’ Returns: How a Show About an Israeli Counterterrorism Unit Became a Global Sensation (Video) Training includes a disguise course, perfecting the Arabic Palestinian dialect and getting punched in the stomach before going to bed. “Every night before bedtime, you stand up like this and you get some punched in the stomach, in the abdomen to see if your muscles are strong enough,” Nimrod Astel, a former “Duvdevan” fighter and a stunt choreographer on the show, told TheWrap.

How did this unit come about? And what’s it like being a member of one of the IDF’s toughest undercover special ops forces? Also Read: Why ‘Fauda’ Is the Best-Kept Secret on Netflix In this second of three videos, sponsored by Netflix, TheWrap goes inside the real-life “Fauda.”