Israel Screen Time

 

Israel Screen Time (Randyjw; July 20, 2019)

 

Netflix and HBO will be featuring films on Israeli special operations.

 

Premiering July 31, 2019 on Netflix, The Red Sea Diving Resort recreates the operation to extract and bring the Ethiopian people to Israel.

 

HBO brings to screen the true, harrowing events surrounding the kidnap and murder by Hamas of three Israeli teenage boys – Naftali Frenkel, 16, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19.

This ten-episode series, called Our Boys, begins on August 12, 2019.

Ghermezian, Shiryn. “New Trailer Released for Netflix Film About Mossad Operation to Smuggle Ethiopian Jews to Israel”. algemeiner.com; July 17, 2019:

(https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/17/new-trailer-released-for-netflix-film-about-mossad-operation-to-smuggle-ethiopian-jews-to-israel/)

 

Ghermezian, Shiryn. “HBO Releases Trailer for Series Based on Kidnapping, Murder of 3 Israeli Teens Before 2014 Gaza War”. algemeiner.com; July 16, 2019:

(https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/16/hbo-releases-trailer-for-series-based-on-kidnapping-murder-of-3-israeli-teens-before-2014-gaza-war/)

 

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Update (September 10, 2019):

A letter was sent to HBO from 120 bereaved Israeli families regarding this series.

 

See more:

 

Green, Aryeh. “Bereaved Families to HBO: ‘Our Boys’ Misleading Viewers About Israeli Societal Acceptance of Terrorism”. TPS via Jewishpress.com; August 14, 2019.

(https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/bereaved-families-to-hbo-our-boys-misleading-viewers-about-israeli-societal-acceptance-of-terrorism/2019/08/14/)

 

And [added September 21, 2019]:

 

Berkowitz, Adam Eliyahu. “New HBO Series Depicts Jewish “Settlers” as Neo-Nazis”. breakingisraelnews.com; August 21, 2019:

(https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/135784/new-hbo-series-depicts-jewish-settlers-neo-nazis/)