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A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret.
Pinhas "Pini" Zanzouri lives in Yavne, a town in central Israel, with his wife and two children. Zanzouri is an average Israeli citizen with an average job, who comes home and passes his evenings watching TV . On his 40th birthday, Zanzouri's life changes forever when his father comes to him with two revelations: that all the men in his family have died in their 40th year, and that he is adopted. Accepting that he has a year to live, Zanzouri decides to fulfill all his dreams.
"Parashat HaShavua" follows four families through a dramatic year of their lives. Love, hate, friendships and secrets mixes up when the families connect.
Dafna Tzur’s (Mali Levi) life is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband, Oded (Rotem Keinan), has gotten himself into debt and put their family’s lives in danger. The series is divided into two timelines—before and after her husband’s murder. She embarks on a race against time and finds herself the prime suspect in a police investigation into her husband’s murder, led by Detective Romi Dor (Dror Keren).
Tom, a high school senior who is required by his father to find a new residence within 2 weeks, finds himself in a demanding relationship with a fashion photographer who is older than him, while secretly being in love with his close friend Gilad.
Amir is a police officer in the cosmopolite district of the old town of Jerusalem, handling day-to-day conflicts between the different confessions to maintain a semblance of status quo. But, when two holy days in the Muslim and Jewish calendars fall on the same day, it seems that, for some, this could be the perfect time to spark a war.
A brother and sister who run away from home find sanctuary in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into the trap of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets out on a race against time to find help. In a twist of fate the rescue of the sister becomes inadvertently intertwined with the lives of a group of young tennis players, a ranger and his dog, as well as a team of policemen.
“Death does not have enough time to kill everyone, so he chose the doctors as his messengers” (R. Nachman). The Breslov branch of Hasidic Judaism, to which the young couple Nati and Dana belong, identifies with this saying. However, when their daughter Tehila suffers from kidney failure, Dana is forced to embark on a journey to find a cure for her daughter, choosing between relying solely on her faith or betraying everything she believes in to listen to the voices of science, technology, and medicine, which are completely foreign to her world.
Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.
Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.
Marzipan Flowers tells the story of Hadas, 48, a woman living in a southern Israeli kibbutz. After her husband is killed in a freakish accident, she is scrutinized by fellow kibbutz members threatened by her status as a beautiful widow. Lost and vulnerable, Hadas moves to the big city. She finds unexpected help and support from her roommate Petel, a colorful transgender, with a mysterious past. They form an alliance of friendship and support and which is put to the test earlier than they had imagined.
Through a mosaic of stories intertwined and created a current picture of the sad social and economic situation in Israel. Mother forced into prostitution to support her son; Blind man must survive after losing his dog; Son is looking for his rocker father's; Apartment owner complicates his life while entering the underworld...
