The episodic broadcasts on Kan in Israel were followed by panel discussions and songs.

Underlying the stories and battle scenes is a subplot of the Black Panthers and the societal tension between Ashkenazim and “Blacks,” pilots and infantry, tank commanders and crews, an intelligence NCO and his Golani officers, and the political elites and Israel’s poor. In Hebrew, the show’s title is Emek HaBakha the original title was Sh‘at Ne’ila, the time of Ne’ila, in reference to Yom Kippur 1973, when the gates are closing and everyone’s future, life and death, are written and sealed in the Book of Life. Directed by Yaron Zilberman, and based on a script led by by Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, the series was in pre-production for over 10 years and reportedly included insights from some of Israel’s top novelists and veterans of the war (in some parts it purposely uses 2020 jargon even though it is set in 1973 in order to communicate the series’ themes better). The series is available in North America on HBO MAX. One of the most viewed Israeli television series, launched in Fall 2020, is Valley of Tears, a ten episode saga about a tank crew, and some Golani, intelligence and other soldiers in the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon during the first few days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

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