Journalist and TV producer Avi Issacharoff said that all work he’d done on Fauda series five had to be thrown out in the wake of October 7
January 17, 2024 20:34
By, Josh Kaplan
The co-creator of Israeli hit series has told the JC that it would be “impossible” not to mention the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the next series of the Netflix TV show.
Speaking at an event at St Johns Wood Synagogue with Sunday Times journalist Josh Glancy, Avi Issacharoff told the audience that all the work the cast and crew had done on Fauda season five had to be “tossed out” and rewritten in the wake of the chaos in Israel since October 7.
Avi Issacharoff, co-creator of the Israeli TV drama 'Fauda' (Photo: Getty)AFP via Getty Images
He told the JC: “I don't think that a single man or woman in Israel weren’t shocked.” Speaking about what the war means for Israeli TV, he said: “Some people will be able to ignore it [the war] but we can’t, we will have to write the war in, in some way.”
Season three of Fauda featured Gaza terrorists infiltrating Israel to take a hostage back into the Strip. Issacharoff said that when writing those episodes, the writers proposed to make the storyline bigger, to include more terrorists, similar to the real life events that would happen years later on October 7.