Episode 29 - FAUDA: the Israeli Netflix TV Hit with co-creator Avi Issacharoff

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

From HBO's In Treatment to Showtime's Homeland, Israel has become a prominent exporter of quality content for the American television industry. As an emerging studio, Netflix wasn't about to miss out. They set their eyes on Fauda. Fauda is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed Israeli TV shows in recent years. It tells the story of Doron, a member of a covert anti-terror unit in the Israeli military, whose world is split in two, between his undercover identity and his life back home. Three months ago, Netflix acquired Fauda for global distribution. Avi Issacharoff, Fauda's co-creator and an analyst of Middle Eastern affairs for Walla News and The Times of Israel, joins 2NJB to tall about the show and its worldwide success.

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys, Aitzid Weinstein, and Nuhr Mininger.
0:14.0	Three months ago it was announced that one of Israel's most popular television shows in recent years, Fowda, was acquired by Netflix for worldwide
0:22.3	distribution.
0:23.8	Fowda tells the story of Duran, a member of an undercover unit who disguised themselves
0:29.1	as Arabs and conduct undercover operations, anti-terror operations in the West Bank.
0:35.1	With us today is Avi Sakharov, an analyst for Middle Eastern
0:40.2	issues at Walla News and the Times of Israel. And he's the co-creator of Fowda together with
0:46.4	Leo Raz. Hello, Avi. Thank you so much for being here with us. Thank you for inviting me.
0:51.7	How are you? Amazing timing because today there was an article in the New York Times, right?
0:59.1	Right.
1:00.1	That says great things about the show, about Netflix for having such shows.
1:05.9	And it is a remarkable thing, right?
1:09.1	It is, it is.
1:10.3	If you had told me three years ago, two years ago...
1:14.3	Yes.
1:15.0	Close us to the mic, please.
1:16.7	That this is what had become, would become from Fowda.
1:21.2	I would say that you probably took the wrong pill that morning.
1:24.1	Uh-huh.
1:25.7	But that was completely unexpected. We didn't see it coming. I mean, after all
1:32.8	the nose that we got from the Israeli TV networks, for us it was a huge surprise that suddenly
1:40.5	one of the networks said yes, and by mistake mistake or by accident was yes network not by
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