Best Israeli documentary series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch documentary shows from Israel, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The Motive 2020
In Jerusalem 1986, a 14-year-old boy shoots his family point-blank in their beds. Yet questions persist. In this docuseries, insiders come forward.
62Shadow of Truth 2016
In 2006, the body of the girl Tair Rada was found in the bathroom stall at the school where she studied. Days later, the police arrested a suspect - Roman Zadorov, and after a week of intense interrogation he admits and restores the murder. However, even after he was convicted three times, many still believe in his innocence. The series explores the length and breadth provision and leaving no stone unturned in an attempt to complete the picture of the puzzle, exposing new and dramatic discoveries. Through a complex mosaic of interviews, photographs and cinematic touch with the extensive use of inquiry and archives, the show tries to fathom the overwhelming truth.
75Inside the Mossad 2017
The assassinations of Nazis, terrorists and Iranian nuclear scientists have given the Mossad a fearsome reputation that has come with a moral cost. For the first time, former spy chiefs and operatives discuss personal and operational challenges, ethical dilemmas, and the personal price they were forced to pay.
73Roar of The Lion 2019
Dhoni. Captain Cool. Thala. Multiple names, many stories. But there's one that the world has never heard. A riveting story about the darkest phase of his career, the unexpected ban on Chennai Super Kings, and the mother of all comebacks.
67Birth of a Conflict 2022
73The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes 2023
After the World War II, architect of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, fled to Argentina. While in hiding, he did a series of taped interviews detailing his role in Nazi atrocities. Now, for the first time ever we can hear The Devil's Confession!
58Don't Panic! 2022
Lucy Ayoub and Guri Alfi go out into the field to check how the State of Israel is preparing for the next disaster. They meet in the series the functionaries, experts and Israelis who are preparing for the various disasters. The series also incorporates filmed drama-comedy clips in which the two also experience a simulation of the disaster themselves, using special effects and quite a bit of computer work.
70The Hitchhikers 2016
The web series 'Hitchhikers' - an Israeli Roadside Odyssey from director Yair Agmon and Elad Schwartz, illuminates the complexities of Israeli society through each hitchhiker that we meet. In these short episodes, Agmon travels all over the country and picks up a diverse mosaic of Israeli characters.
63The Last League 2019
The Last League - the lowest league in soccer in Israel, focuses on people from the peripheries for whom soccer is their last chance of making it big and giving meaning to their lives. Why The Last League? Because from the bottom you can only go up.
56Munich '72 2022
Chronicle of the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September in the Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Summer Games.
60Enemies 2021
A new docu-action series on the secrets of Arab leaders through the eyes of the Israeli intelligence services.
52Uvda 2006
Israel's leading documentary show with Ilana Dayan. The best stories from all over the world and from anywhere in Israel: exclusive exposures, surprising discoveries and exciting stories.
52Tangled Roots 2019
A brief televised guide to the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A succinct, lucid summary and concise presentation of its basic concepts and decisive events, while laying them out on a timeline and a spatial map, related from a variety of viewpoints and positions concerning the conflicted parties.
55Kingdoms 2019
Kingdoms presents an intimate look at the Hassidic world, from history to the present day. The third episode of this series, A Suitable Helper, presents the daily lives of the male and female members of Israel's Hassidic community. How do they meet the challenges of raising children, income, education, gender, and equality? And how are these matters approached from a Hassidic point of view?
55Gran Cooked with Tom Yaar 2021
55Old people's home for 4 years old (IL) 2019
The Israeli adaptation of the successful UK format "Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds". Ten senior residents of the Bait Bakfar care home, brought together with ten four-year-olds for six weeks.
55Haherzelim (The Herzls) 2015
A 4 part documentary about Theodor Herzl's nuclear family, after his death.
50Let Us Work 2021
A documentary series about young people with disabilities who want to fit into the world of employment and find work like everyone else. With the help of experts they will prove to employers that they can be amazing employees, if only they are given a chance.
50Couch Surfers 2013
45Ma Ze Hashtuyot Haele 2016
45Begin 2019
The three episodes of this limited series deal with three events in the center of Prime Minister Begin: The peace agreement with Egypt, changes in the economic-social field, and the Lebanon war, during which he declared that he could no longer go on and retired. At the same time, he created the Devprived Alliance. Under this alliance, the ultra-Orthodox parties joined the coalition, the NRP received important ministries, including the ministry of education, and the Mizrahi-Traditional peripherents entered the corridors of the government.
45You Can't Ask That (IL) 2018
An honest and intimate look at the lives of groups that deal with social stigmas, with the help of anonymous questions from viewers at home and real answers from the heart. Available on YouTube for free
42Yes Man 2019
45HaYechida 2014
In the framework of the "Unit", ten celebrities joined in order to set up an army troupe aimed at raising entertainment for IDF soldiers, in the best tradition of the military bands. , And was trained on choreography - all this in order to raise a special performance with hundreds of soldiers and commanders, together with a military base set up specifically for her, conducted various military exercises such as guarding, navigational training, firing ranges, training for Shbaih, grenade launchers and even IDF parachuting training Every week the members of the "unit" were sent to appear before soldiers in bases and positions Including the Kfir Brigade in Judea and Samaria, the naval commando unit at Haifa's naval base, the Tel Nof Air Force base, and the appearance before the Armored Brigade in Kerem Shalom, on the border with Gaza. The servants brought some entertainment to the soldiers as part of their military service, with mythological songs such as "Come to the Sea", "Shalva" and "Song of Peace".
37Sharon 2021
Follows Sharon's term as PM from the moment he was elected. The series goes through his leadership under mass terror attacks, his willingness to support the two-state solution, his decision to start Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, his demand from the Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as a condition for all negotiations, the establishment of the separation fence, and the disengagement from Gaza that turned his greatest supporters into sworn enemies. In addition, the series returns to selected chapters in Sharon's life as a child in Kfar Malal, as a family person, as a soldier and as minister in Israeli governments. Among the interviewees: Gilad Sharon, Dov Weissglas, Eyal Bronze, Uri Monday, Moshe Kaplinsky, Israel Maymon, Assi Yavni, Tzipi Livni, Gideon Saar and Aria Eldad.
35Albums 2012
33Crossings 2019
Mika, Yuval and Ben were recruited to the Military Police Corps despite their conscientious objection. For the first time in their lives, young men and women face the constant and painful friction with the Palestinians. Locked in a fortified position day and night, in cold or hot weather, wearing heavy bullet-proof vests, these soldiers are trained to believe that at last everything drains into the fate of both nations.
30Psycho 2012
25Pillar of Fire 1981
Pillar of Fire focuses on the History of Zionism, beginning in 1896, in the wake of Theodor Herzl's revival of the concept of Jewish nationalism and continues to follow the Jewish People in the 20th century, the early stages of Zionism, followed by the waves of Aliyah prior to the founding of Israel, the Revival of the Hebrew language, the Ottoman Empire's rule in over the Land of Israel, the British Mandate, Anti-Semitism in Europe, the rise of Nazism and The Holocaust, the history of the Yishuv, the Jewish struggle for independence, and ends in 1948, with the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
20Haetonaim 0
20במרחק 100 מטר 2023
20Generation Turmoil 2023
Outside observers looking at the last 25 years in Israeli could conclude that the Jewish state has disintegrated into a deeply fragmented tribal society with little holding it together – Jews vs Arabs, secular vs ultra-Orthodox, Right vs Left, the Center vs the periphery. This is a docuseries about Israel’s most turbulent generation, beginning in 1995, with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting the pivotal events since then, we reach today’s volcanic moment, as Israel is on the verge of a civil war.
20End of story 2012
16Aharoni & Gidi's Wonderful Journey 2011
The Amazing Journey is an Israeli documentary TV series that explores and studies cultures, their history, religion, ceremonies and geography, through their reflection in the local food. The 7th season of The Amazing Journey takes place in the USA, where the two presenters would explore some of America's best cuisines.
10Tkuma 1997
The story of Israel's first fifty years of statehood, TKUMA brings to the screen the tragedies and joyful milestones of Israel's first half century: the ingathering of the exiles as the fledgling state becomes a haven for Jews around the word. Dramatic, personal accounts and documentary footage of the wars fought over five decades, along with rare behind-the-scenes insights into Israel's efforts to make peace. Who is a Jew Israel wrestles with its national identity. Israel's economic revolution takes the country from the orange to the computer chip in a few years. The people, the places, the spirit of Israel in its first fifty years.
10The Gatekeepers 2013
A five episode special edition of the documentary film by director Dror Moreh, featuring the story of the Israeli Palestinian conflict from the point of view of six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
10התחתנתי עם כדורגלן 2009
10אפס בהתנהגות 2009
10Lost 2012
10Yehuda Yotze Lemilhama 2010
10Tzva Haam 2011
10Panim Amitiot 2012
10Route 90 2014
This time, the duo travels along Highway 90, the longest road in the country and the only one across Israel along it. Five chapters depicting the portrait of the state from Metula to Eilat, focusing on the peripheral localities completely different from the central cities, those places that in the not so distant past were part of the local discourse and are now forgotten by the consciousness and especially by the authorities.
10HaKibbutz 2011
10What you would do? 2010
10Pusherz 2012
A docu-reality about kids in showbiz, the parents who push them forward to succeed, and how they sometimes seem to fulfill themselves through their kid's success.
10The Buzaglos 2017
The first family of Israeli football in the series is kicking and funny! Come and see Yaakov Buzaglo, Maor - one of the soccer stars in Israel, and his three brothers, who were also born with soccer in their hands .
10Find My Past 2011
Find My Past the TV show is an exciting new 10-part series which unites ordinary members of the public with their ancestors. Hosted by Strictly Come Dancing winner and Watchdog presenter Chris Hollins, Find My Past invites people to delve back into their ancestry to find out how they are linked to some of our most talked about events in modern history.
10Allah Islam 2012
Allah Islam, also known as Islam in Europe, is a documentary series about the rise of Islam by Israeli film makers Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deri. The 4-part series was first broadcast by Israel's Channel 10 in September, 2012, and looks at the effect of the rise of the Islam religion in Europe, and the growth in numbers of Muslim migrants. The filmmakers go into Muslim immigrant neighborhoods in European nations to investigate the conditions and culture. The film documents a rise in jihadism and antisemitism.
10Sheshem Veahat Yamim Shel Hahava 2011
10Arbesre Shavuout 2011
Six different couples from around the country embark on a rare, exciting and moving documentary journey that follows the birth and maternity leave with the new baby in the family.
10Chagiga LaEinayim 2015
Chagiga LaEinayim (A Feast for Your Eyes) - The Story of the Israeli Cinema is a ten part documentary show produced by HaArutz HaRishon (Channel 1), telling the story of the Israeli movie industry. A first of its kind TV retrospective, ten parts, going back to the moments and the big stars of our cinema and telling its touching story
10אללה אסלאם 2012
10The Source 2014
10We are on the Napkin 2018
10Seret Shahor Lavan 2011
10Aih Lehazlih Beshisha Shiurim 2011
10Rebirth 1998
The story of Israel's first fifty years of statehood, TKUMA brings to the screen the tragedies and joyful milestones of Israel's first half century: the ingathering of the exiles as the fledgling state becomes a haven for Jews around the word. Dramatic, personal accounts and documentary footage of the wars fought over five decades, along with rare behind-the-scenes insights into Israel's efforts to make peace. Who is a Jew? Israel wrestles with its national identity. Israel's economic revolution takes the country from the orange to the computer chip in a few years. The people, the places, the spirit of Israel in its first fifty years
10In The Jews State 2004
10Tiyul Acharei Tzava 2017
10The Holy land 2016
The history of the Land of Israel from prehistoric times to the Ottoman period.
10The Silver Platter 2015
The Silver Platter is an award-winning 3-episode documentary focused on Israel's economic and social issues, which was created by Doron Tsabari, one of Israel's most decorated documentary filmmakers, and Amir Ben-David. Tsabari is a film director and a professor of film and television at Sapir Academic College. Tsabari directed 11 films and television series and won 6 Ophir Awards, Israel most prestigious film award.
10Roots Travel Trip 2019
10וואי וואי וואי 2019
10גיבורים 2016
10ליבוביץ 2013
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