Best Israeli TV shows
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Best Israeli TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Fauda (2015), Tehran (2020), Manayek (2020), Prisoners of War (2009), Our Boys (2019), Downtown Precinct (2011), Kfulim (2015), Shtisel (2013), Valley of Tears (2020), Absentia (2017), When Heroes Fly (2018), Hostages (2013), Black Space (2020), Hit & Run (2021), The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021), Losing Alice (2020), Sirens (2014), No Man's Land (2020), The Baker and the Beauty (2020), The Gordin Cell (2012).
List of Best TV Shows
42K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, war on terror, terrorist, mossad, covert operation, israeli, assassination, terror, murder, danger, government agency ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, belgium
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30K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, UK, Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
mossad, covert operation, computer, terrorist group, danger, israeli, hacker, spy, secret agent, hostage, criminal, computer hacker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, tehran iran, iran, middle east, palestine
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense
Plot:
friendship, dirty cop, corruption, investigation, internal affairs, israeli, friends, police officer, partner, partners against crime, law enforcement, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, ukraine, middle east, palestine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, torture, pow, investigation, homecoming, soldier, haunted by the past, twists and turns, held captive, spy, government agency ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, investigation, murder, civil war, who done it, parents and children, law enforcement, evidence, interrogation, haunted by the past, hate crime, religious conflict ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An Israeli Detective investigating a Russian mob in Israel, falls into trouble
Style:
realistic, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
police detective, law enforcement, society, investigation, police, co worker co worker relationship, danger, murder, rivalry, russian mafia, nypd, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary ...
Style:
serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mossad, secret agent, spy, terrorist group, hostage, criminal, abduction, investigation, dishonesty, villain, danger, frame up ...
Place:
israel, middle east, lebanon, iran
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a haredi family in Jerusalem. Shulem Schtisel the father of a large family is dealing with his younger son who he wants to see married soon. His daughter, Giti is dealing in secret with marital problems while his other son Zvi Arie ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, serious, mysterious ...
Plot:
jewish family, jewish culture, orthodox jew, family relations, parents and children, dating, looking for love, religions or cults, society, love and romance, unfulfillment, retirement home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
israeli army, israeli palestinian conflict, military, war, military life, power struggle, battles, fight for supremacy, military base, struggle for survival, fight, protector ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, syria, egypt
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspense, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
amnesia, missing person, memory loss, new life, fbi, life & death, memory, survival, fight, investigation, husband wife relationship, brutality ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
israeli, disappearance, israeli army, jungle, soldier, girlfriend, friendship, investigation, danger, rivalry, ptsd, person thought dead is alive ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
family relations, political conspiracy, treason, twists and turns, moral dilemma, danger, confined, dishonesty, parents and children, kidnapping, abduction, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A rogue detective with unorthodox means leads an investigation into a massacre committed by unicorn mask-wearing assassins at an Israeli high school.
Style:
suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, psychological
Plot:
high school, murder investigation, police investigation, partner, victim, investigator, society, interrogation, partners against crime, investigation, graphic violence, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
cheating wife, murder, adultery, private investigation, marital problem, hidden truth, relationship problems, uncover truth, secret, hidden identity, investigation, murder investigation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The loves, heartbreak, jealousy and pain of the three Armoza sisters – Luna, Rachelika, and Becky - their parents, grandparents and children, set during the early-mid 20th century in Jerusalem.
Style:
historical drama, family saga, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
high society, family secret, jealousy, family life, lifestyle, beauty queen, three generations, female protagonist, sibling rivalry, passion, heartbreak, sisterhood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
jerusalem, israel, ottoman empire, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Alice, an ambitious 47 year old female film director who becomes obsessed with 24 year old femme-fatale Sophie and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, older woman younger woman relationship, ambitious woman, film industry, lesbian attraction, seductress, femme fatale, female protagonist, manipulative woman, mysterious disappearance, mind game ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
238
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An Israeli cop is faced with the shocking discovery of her missing twin sister's body being washed-up on the seashore. The case opens old wounds and draws her deep into a roller-coaster ride of cryptic secrets and mysterious discoveries.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life turned upside down, under the surface, dealing with death, parents and children, small town, hidden truth, mermaid, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: France, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Dive into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
isis, mossad, spy, terrorist, islam, female soldier, soldier, espionage, family problems, battles, problem, threat ...
Place:
middle east, syria, iran, israel
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do. But on a wild Miami night he meets Noa Hamilton, an international superstar and fashion mogul, and his life moves into ...
Style:
sweet, funny, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
celebrity, food, ambition, love affair, workplace situations, love and romance, couples, love, happy ending, friendship, promise, society ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
miami
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman , a young social worker , who discovers that he is adopted and finds himself in the depths of his biological father's family, Baruch Asulin, a leader of an organized crime syndicate in Israel known as ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family life, criminal heroes, rivalry, family relations, family feud, uninhibited rivalry, social worker, family reunited, temperamental, parents and children, family disapproval, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
374
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Juda Ben Haim is a showy little thug, on his way to the biggest gambling in Romania with the money of a dangerous French mobster. A mysterious and beautiful woman shows up and changes all the picture.
Style:
contemplative, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
vampire vs vampire, vampire slayer, vampire, vampirism, vampire hunter, vampire bite, vampire human love, money, double life, killing, fear, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
3 middle aged men in a conflict with life about their wives, friends, children and everyday situations.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, sitcom, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friends, adulthood, battle of the sexes, couple relations, manhood, marriage, womanizer, everyday life, israeli, buddies, couples, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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404
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Alon Shenhav, an outstanding detective officer who came from Nahariya and moved to Tel Aviv, is asked to return to his hometown and acts there as a detective officer for a year. When he returns, he discovers that Maor Ezra is a criminal organization ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot:
mafia, obsession, justice, fight for justice, changing lives, moral dilemma, character change, sacrifice, police detective, morals, fighting crime, ambition ...
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel
Is relevant?
219
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows Ella Rosen who discovers her identity, as a half-vampire, half-human, when she starts at Green High whose principal is secretly the head of 'The Order of the Blood' an order which is devoted to cleansing the world of vampires.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, dark fantasy
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
vampire, friends, high school, good versus evil, high school life, love triangle, friendship, supernatural, teenage love, youth, supernatural romance, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: History, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Told from the American, Israeli and Lebanese perspectives, discover one of the greatest espionage stories of modern times: the manhunt for Imad Mughniyeh, the elusive Lebanese terrorist who outwitted his adversaries in the CIA and Mossad for over ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, harsh, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
islamic terrorism, manhunt, jihad, cia, pursuit, hunted, assassination, terrorist, espionage, terrorism, mossad, iraq war ...
Place:
lebanon, israel
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A comic series telling the tale of a failing supermarket in a backwards town and following the daily events that take place within the supermarket.
The series goes into the details of everything we don’t know about the behind the scenes ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, satirical, ironic, feel good ...
Plot:
supermarket, social satire, satire, coworker, workplace situations, co worker co worker relationship, teamwork, social issues, humour, workplace, irony, office politics ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A young French woman living in Israel is accused of the murder of her husband on the day of their wedding. As the bride struggles to prove her innocence, mysterious happenings surround her. Is she guilty or could she be the victim?
Style:
contemplative, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot:
murder investigation, who done it, murder, police detective, danger, murder mystery, youth, society, uncover truth, murderer, police investigation, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad.
The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mossad, spy, espionage, israeli, secret agent, undercover, government agency, state affairs, training, rivalry, secret service, academy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, lebanon
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, Norway
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
When her daughter is abducted, a Norwegian diplomat travels to the Middle East, banking on old friends — and a deep secret — to help free her.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
abduction, isis, terrorist, kidnapping, terrorism, hostage, death threat, blackmail, blackmailer, terrorist group, prisoners exchange, rescue mission ...
Place:
middle east
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