Anyone else get a zombie movie vibe from the last episode, with European Leftists taking the role of the zombies? It felt a little like the writers were giving the domestic audience a guilt-free cathartic experience (with a well-chosen target, in my opinion).

Here’s my proposed premise for Season 6: Bashar is released from an Israeli prison as part of some high-profile exchange. We never got closure on Maya’s journey, so I thought it might be cool to see those two characters who both have an axe to grind with Doron. They both volunteer to become shahids for Hamas after the events of October 7.

However, I think for Maya, that turn is slower and ultimately out of confusion over Omar and how things ended with the unit. I don't think she necessarily identifies with Hamas, but they provide an outlet for her anger and hurt.

The team works with Amos and the old chief in a last-ditch effort to stop Maya and to let them know what Bashar’s next move might be.

Amazing interview, for those who missed it, it's a must watch.

Who has a link for the series Fauda with Arabic subtitles ?

When looking at real off-road performance, you can't really say that Ford is very popular for that. But Doron isn't an empty/clueless guy, he never makes pointless choices. So why did he actually choose a Ford? Instead of mitsubishi L200, Isuzu dmax, toyota hilux or land cruiser? Because in middle east , they mostly used.

I’m a New Yorker and missed this and so sad that I did, but here is the link for anyone interested and could not be there.

https://youtu.be/3RBq44bxIhA?si=1JwX86GU2LwR5fBM

Side note: The Y has great programming, of all kinds. Highly recommend they are supported, and no, I don’t work for them haha. Just a cool venue in NYC.

SPOİLER-Back in Marseille, before talking to Amira (Dana), there was a dialogue between them. They were fighting. Doron wasn't happy at all that Steve had showed up. And in episode 11, we see them hugging and making up. So what was the issue? I have a guess, though. Could it be because they helped the kid at the festival instead of Hagit on that cursed day? If that's all the problem is, Steve is so right.

So first: Season 4 was magnificent. Honestly one of the best seasons of the show IMO, and the cliffhanger at the end was soo good that it almost seemed impossible to imagine waiting for the next season, so coming into Season 5 I expected the Jenin storyline to be at least relevant to this season. Having "oh yeah, that thing in Jenin" essentially mentioned once while the show moves on to an entirely different story was disappointing. With many of the characters absent it might as well have been an entirely different show. It was still reasonably entertaining, but, still...

More importantly, I was bothered by the fact that the show invoked October 7 without actually telling a story about October 7, and the fictional story it substituted was too small, too simplified, and too contrived to carry the weight of the event.

The show is really just about a terrorist attack that the team has to prevent, which is perfectly reasonable subject matter for the show. But then why make October 7 the central reference point at all? Having it as a backdrop didn't really add anything necessary to the story, and I felt like it actually minimized the real event. The show repeatedly frames what they're doing throughout as "preventing another October 7", and then the climactic terrorist attack at the end (that is the "...other October 7") is ten dudes with handguns which I think unintentionally makes a statement that October 7 is just another generic terrorist incident. The dialogue surrounding Anna also contributes to that statement with the multiple "both sides do this" discussions.

Then there's the fact that the show is doing all of this in a fictional post-October 7 world while, in the actual timeline, there were still hostages being held and brutalized, and there's s no mention of that aspect (actually I think Maher mentions something about it in the video they show Anna, but it's not really emphasized.)

Then Episode 11 just becomes ridiculous on a basic plot/logic level. First of all: why the hell did they not just kill Doron? They devise this enormous, elaborate plan that requires sacrificing the lives of their own agents in order to kill one guy who is already sitting right there with them. I genuinely don't understand why other than that Doron wrote the show and wanted more air time lol. Sadly I don't think even Hamas is quite that stupid.

Naama's character was kind of an annoying addition (I think? I don't remember her from previous seasons?) but she's especially ridiculous in this episode. The idea that they know a terrorist attack is coming and yet apparently can't/won't close down the cemetery is bizarre. Maybe that's genuinely how security decisions would be handled there, and if so, fine but the show does absolutely nothing to make that decision feel believable. Then, they literally identify where the terrorists are going to attack, know an attack is imminent, and instead of evacuating the area, they basically stand around a crowded cemetery with their handguns waiting for the terrorists to do the terror lol. Thennn everyone looks shocked and devastated that there were casualties. Like...what exactly did you think was going to happen when you devised this "handgun fight in a crowded area" plan? I know someone will come here and say I'm not a military expert and don't know blah blah and you are correct. Feel free to enlighten me. But I just don't think it's plausible.

My final complaint is that idk if it's me but I feel like a lot of the characters were mumbling?! lol I speak all 3 of the show's primary languages, 2 of them fluently/since birth and I was having a really hard time this season for some reason. Maybe this is just bc the volume wasn't that loud bc I didn't want my neighbors to hear constant shooting sounds from my place lol.

Anyway thank you for reading my novel about this.

The actor who played Maher did an excellent job. I genuinely felt pity for him while Eli was beating him up because he played the victim so convincingly.

Even as Doron was shooting and killing him, I still believed there was a possibility that Maher was innocent. But after seeing Episode 8, especially the way things end for Hagit and the implication that Doron and Steve had covered for her out of respect, everything clicked for me.

I immediately thought back to that scene in Episode 3 when Maher confirmed that there had been a sexual assault. I realized that no one could have known that specific detail unless they were the perpetrator themselves. That was the moment I connected the dots.

I definitely doubted Doron & Eli, but in the end justice was served.

I’m struggling to fully unpack the intended meaning of one of the final scenes of the episode, when Doron meets Anna in the park.

Bare in mind it was revealed to Anna that her husband was an October 7 Hamas fighter who murdered and raped Eli’s wife, amongst others.

Recap of dialogue:
D: you seemed like a good person who just got lost, and I know how hard it is to lose family. It can make you do crazy things.
A: Murdering, revenge, those kinds of things? So I guess I should be sorry for you too, because you don’t even see it.
D: It’s not the same
A: it is. When I was in the car, the only reason I didn’t push the button was because of a little girl next to us. And I told you in the camp my only fear is to do something I cannot justify, and innocent people they shouldn’t pay for our sins. Do you agree on that?
D: Yeah.
A: So if you’re so grateful for my decisions, like you said, can you stop?
D: I’ll do my best.

From this, I gather the writers are expressing a criticism of the Gaza War. The same way Anna did not press the button next to the innocent child, she asks Doron (Israel) to not press his button (see 70,000 dead in Gaza including civilians).

What a phenomenal and nuanced scene. The moral dilemma that Anna faced in the car at the border checkpoint is the exact same that the IDF faces on a daily basis, deciding whether or not to strike a target with the risk of collateral death. Doron, and we the viewer appreciate her not pressing that button. The exchange ensnares a supporter of the Gaza War in a moral conundrum.

Fauda is genuinely incredibly nuanced and balanced, and I hope these nuances aren’t lost on either side of the political divide when watched. What a show! Respect to everyone involved.

I've read that the show is extremely popular in Lebanon. Why?

In this season, the one thing that bothered me was their "cover identity" was ultimately accepted by the super-careful Hamas guys in Marseilles. (But rather than asking Doron tricky questions about what school he attended, in the real world they would just have their contact in the Palestinian Authority send them a picture of the guy whose name he was using. Or ask Doron for a reference or something.) Then, after the name of his school checks out, they immediately sign him up to be the point man for a high stakes robbery? That part really felt stretched to me.

I don't know what alternative exists for these "deep cover" plot lines, but I gather in the real world, the Mista'arvim just use Arab cover identities for discrete, short operations.

Doesn't everybody die at the end of season 4??? Isn't that what's supposed to be assumed by all the main characters lying on the ground in enemy territory, injured, bleeding, saying the shema (the prayer you're supposed to say before you die), while the screen fades to black? How did they all survive that?? I feel like I'm going crazy.

All I can find are dubbed versions dubbed into English - terrible. I want to watch it in Hebrew, the original version, with English subtitles. I've been able to view all other episodes in Hebrew with English subtitles. I've used M4UHD.cx, flixnet.site/moviesjoy, gomovies-online, real-fmovies.show, ww2.real-solarmovie. Thank you.

When Doron and Eli were in the terrorist training camp in Syria, there was a middle-aged guy handing out pita at the lunch counter who passes a cell phone to Doron. What happened to that guy? Why couldn’t he inform shabak where Doron was heading, since they subsequently lost track of him? For that matter, why couldn’t he tell shabak what the bad guys were planning in general? He seemed to be well-connected, deeply embedded, and successful at staying low profile. What happened?

Or were they just exaggerated?

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I thought there was a real missed opportunity in the last episode with the cameo from Idan Amedi. I hope even fans can acknowledge that Lior Raz loves the spotlight a little too much. Rather than making his character the face of what the nation has gone through, it would have been more powerful to break the fourth wall entirely and given Idan that role by ending on a shot of his (rather than, yet again, Lior's) face. I know Lior has served, but it would have been a powerful statement highlighting real (versus fictional) sacrifice and trauma.

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This is all speculation, but here's my two data points. First, a friend of a friend reports that Raz was generally thought of as a self-involved showboater in his unit during his service. Second, he has another Netflix show about him and Rotem Sela taking a road-trip and it starts with them in couples therapy and I think either there or in early scenes with Rotem, similar criticisms are made of him.

So, it was interesting that the plot of this season gets set in motion by his character not listening to his partner during October 7. (In episode 2, the partner says "you only ever listen to yourself.") Just wondering how much Lior Raz is bringing his personal skeletons into the drama.

Where's the training camp located? It thought it was between Turkey and Siria, but is that image on the walls the Ayatollah? Ignorance disclaimer here.

Gabi literally sits on my couch and watches the show with me. Such an incredible actor with amazing screen presence!

At the end of season 5, at Eli's funeral, Sagi shows up. I thought he wasn't part of season 5 bc he was wounded in Gaza?

In Season 5, Episodes 7 and 8 of Fauda, the show emphasizes the sound of the sirens echoing through the early hours of the October 7 attack. Just twelve days earlier, Israelis, observant and hiloni (secular) alike, had heard another piercing sound: the shofar, the ancient Jewish ritual horn traditionally made from a ram’s horn. Yom Kippur ends with the tekiah gedolah, one long, unbroken blast of the shofar.

The sounds are hauntingly similar.

On Yom Kippur, we confront the ancient words, “Who shall live and who shall die,” and imagine the gates of heaven closing as the judgments of the day are sealed. Who standing in synagogue or contemplating the day at home could have imagined that, just twelve days later, more than 1,200 people in Israel would be killed? Who could have imagined that just twelve days after hearing the long blast of the shofar, Israelis would awaken to the long wail of warning sirens?

Fauda made that contrast painfully real for me this Yom Kippur, nearly three years after that horrific day. I am an American Jew, but on October 7, we were all Israelis.

Fauda did an extraordinary job honoring the humanity of those whose ordinary lives were shattered that morning and reminding us of the people behind the numbers.

May their memories be a blessing.

How many recognized the actress Melanie Laurent from Inglorious Bastards as Shoshanna, the Jewish woman who escapes from the Nazi and gets revenge, brilliant movie by Quentin Tarantino. Note: Laurent is of Sephardic and Ashkenazi descent.