By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
Israeli broadcaster Yes, which airs the series domestically, issued a formal viewer warning before the two episodes for the first time in the show’s history and made them free to watch across Israel in recognition of their significance.
“You try to be as close to reality as possible,” Issacharoff said. “On the other hand, you cannot show everything, because it’s too terrible.” Raz told The New York Times, “I want them to look in my character’s eyes, and to see what we felt on those days.” Because the war in Gaza was still underway while the season was being written, the creators deliberately steered the story away from Gaza almost entirely, setting most of it in Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East instead.
The production carried its own losses. Cast member Idan Amedi was seriously wounded while serving in the Combat Engineering Corps in Gaza and, for a time, said he would not return for the new season. Longtime crew member Matan Meir was killed in December 2023 by an explosion from a booby-trapped tunnel shaft beside a mosque in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
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