The Lesson (Hebrew title: Sha’at Efes or Zero Hour) created by Deakla Keydar, is an award-winning 6-part drama series, broadcast last year on Israel TV-KAN, the public broadcasting station. According to Variety, the series is now available for streaming on Chai-Flicks. It can also be seen on Netflix in Israel (hebrew only).
In April 2022, the series won the
prize for Best Series at Cannes International Series Festival. The series also won
an Israeli Academy award, in 2023, for Best Israeli TV Drama Series.
Based on a true incident, The Lesson is a
hard-hitting series about a teenage girl at a good high school in Kfar Saba
(northeast of Tel Aviv) and her political argument with her leftwing civics
teacher, which completely spirals out of control. Lianne is quite obese and therefore
suffering from a lack of self-esteem.
The civics teacher is literally stunned by how the many racist students
in the school line up against him and his teaching. In fact, the situation snowballs until the
anti-Arab feeling is loudly expressed as the students are demonstrating to
close the local public pool to “outsiders”.
This is a series which relates to contemporary issues that we are confronting
within Israeli society, especially during this period of the right-wing
government. These are realistic issues
for young people to learn about.
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