The Success of "Fauda":

 

A Conversation with Co-Creator Avi Issacharoff

Sunday, January 23, 2022

2:00 pm (ET)

Zoom

About the Event

Join JNF on Campus, Media Watch, and Yavneh on Campus for an exciting Positively Israel program as JNF Campus Fellow Sarah Renabaum (George Washington University '25) interviews Avi Issacharoff, co-creater of the hit Israeli action-drama series "Fauda." Available to stream on Netflix, "Fauda" ("chaos" in Arabic), follows the lives of an undercover elite Israeli unit. It has won 11 Israeli Academy Television Awards in 2018 including Best Drama, Best Actor, and Best Director, and its fourth season is currently in production. During this virtual program, Avi will give viewers a glimpse into television writing, Israeli TV, his experience in journalism and its effect on writing the show, and a look inside season four! Zoom information will be provided after registration. 

 

Watch the trailer for the latest season of "Fauda":

 

Guest Speaker

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Avi Issacharoff

Co-Creator of "Fauda"

 

Avi Issacharoff is the Middle East analyst for Walla website, the leading portal in Israel and for The Times of Israel, an Israeli based news website in English.

 

Avi co-created and wrote the action-drama series "Fauda."

He and his writing partner, Lior Raz, also created "Hit & Run," political espionage thriller which revolves around a happily married man whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident.

 

From 2006 to 2012, Issacharoff was the Arab affairs columnist for Ha’aretz newspaper. He was also the Middle East Affairs correspondent for Israeli Public Radio between the years of 2000 to 2006. And in 2002, he won the “best reporter” award for the “Voice of Israel” after covering the Second Intifada.

 

Additionally, in 2004, together with Amos Harel, Avi wrote The Seventh War: How We Won and Why We Lost the War with the Palestinians. A year later, the book won an award from the Institute for Strategic Studies for containing the best research on security affairs in Israel. In 2008, Issacharoff and Harel published their second book 34 Days: The Story of the Second Lebanon War, which won the same prize.

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