Best Israeli crime series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime shows from Israel, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Hit & Run 2021

    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 ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

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  • Poster for Black Space

    Black Space 2020

    A rogue detective with unorthodox means leads an investigation into a massacre committed by unicorn mask-wearing assassins at an Israeli high school.

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  • Poster for The Motive

    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.

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  • Poster for Manayek

    Manayek 2020

    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.

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  • Poster for Shadow of Truth

    Shadow 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.

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  • Poster for The Cops

    The Cops 2021

    Alon Shenhav, an outstanding detective officer who grow up in Nahariya and moved to Tel Aviv-Yafo, is asked to return to his hometown and serve as a detective officer for a year. Upon his return, he discovers that Maor Ezra runs a local crime organization that is terrorising in the city. Alon understands that in order to take Ezra down, he must first restore the public status of the police in the city.

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  • Poster for The Arbitrator

    The Arbitrator 2007

    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 "Ha-Borer"(The Arbitrator), due to his activities as an arbitrator in disputes in the underworld. The series focuses on the combination of dramatic stretches , the conflict between the norms of society including crime, especially norms and codes of conduct of the underworld. Among other highlights of the series, in a satirical way, the contrast between certain behaviors of some of the heroes of the series (as a demonstration of piety) and other behaviors (such as the blatant disregard for human life).

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  • Poster for Your Honor

    Your Honor 2017

    Dark, gripping and morally complex, Your Honor tells the story of Micah Alkoby, a respected judge who is on the cusp of a big promotion. After his troubled teenage son is involved in a hit-and-run, this all changes. The victim of this accident turns out to be a member of a notorious criminal family that runs its own system of justice. How many laws is Micah willing to break in order to shield his son?

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  • Poster for Dumb

    Dumb 2016

    Shiri is 30 years old actress waiting for her big break, which doesn't seem to come because she looks too young. An unexpected opportunity comes when she is recruited by the police as a secret agent in a high-school where drugs are suspected to be distributed.

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  • Poster for The Truth

    The Truth 2024

    Ten years after Israel's most controversial homicide case, convicted murderer Ruby Deloya is set to receive the verdict on his appeal. Then an eerily similar murder takes place, casting the original investigation into doubt. Young detective Racheli Zabatani must revisit the traumas of her past to figure out the mysteries of the present.

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  • Poster for Motherland

    Motherland 2025

    The series takes place in the 1990s against the backdrop of a major wave of immigration from the Soviet Union. Yehuda (Yaakov Zada-Daniel) is a seasoned detective known for his professionalism and dedication. When the brutal murder of a young immigrant woman shakes the city, Yehuda is assigned to the case. As he delves into the investigation, Yehuda uncovers shocking similarities between this murder and a series of killings that occurred in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. The key to solving the case may lie with Andrei, the father of a man wrongfully convicted of those past crimes and now facing execution. Desperate to clear his son’s name and expose the real killer, Andrei offers Yehuda crucial information that could change everything.

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  • Poster for Patrick

    Patrick 2024

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  • Poster for 4:20

    4:20 2023

    At the center of the plot are Assi (Zahavi) and Nivi (Yuval Sharaf), divorced parents of a girl with a rare form of epilepsy (Emmanuel Pepper, the real daughter of Uri Viyal). No medicine can control this epilepsy except for special cannabis oil, which she receives as part of a clinical study and prevents her from brain damage (in the role of researcher: Alma Dishi). A frightening event in the premiere episode leads to the termination of the research, and the cannabis strain in question is confiscated and sent to be destroyed in a truck. This truck, and what is waiting for it, are the key to the continuation of the affair.

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  • Poster for Traitor

    Traitor 2022

    After a flight from Tel Aviv to Bangkok vanishes in mid-air, with no signs of an explosion, crash or hijacking, the entire world is left mesmerised. Yonatan Georgy is a recently blind intelligence officer returning to work, tasked with investigating the plane's disappearance - with his wife and children on board. At the same time, families of the passengers start realising they didn't know their loved ones as well as they thought.

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  • Poster for Indal

    Indal 2024

    A group of Ethiopian Israeli youth decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. What starts off as a personal revenge scheme quickly boils over into a massive national protest movement against police violence and for equality. Led by the pain and rage of SELAM, the beautiful sister of police's victim, and the small-time crook INDAL, the group capture the officer in an abandoned public pool and turn the whole area into an autonomous zone for the struggle.

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  • Poster for Alumim

    Alumim 2021

    Alumim is the story of a group of boys, living in the margins of the Israeli society and passing their time in a school for at-risk youth. One day, after a local girl is raped, the boys become the immediate suspects, their already unbalanced world gets completely disturbed. The show deals with the question of the chance these boys have in order to break the cycle of violence they’re in. This is a story of cruel and magical friendship between boys who will sacrifice anything just to avoid their own destiny.

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  • Poster for Bney Or

    Bney Or 2021

    The raw, moving and painful coming of age story of a group of underprivileged teens from the tough, decrepit “Bney Or” neighborhood in the remote desert city of Be’er Sheva. Led by Johnny, who has just been released from juvenile prison, the gang decide to make money the only way they know how – selling drugs. Their small enterprise quickly develops into a burgeoning business, which they manage with much skill and muscle. As the word of their success spreads, established criminals want a piece of the action and the kids soon find themselves entangled in a turf was with seasoned criminals. Pushing drugs and pushing boundaries, the “Bney Or” crew try to change the reality of their circumstances while dealing with the consequences of their actions.

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  • Poster for Magpie

    Magpie 2019

    After serving 17 years in prison for a murder conviction, Asa Katz receives an early release on the condition that he continues to cooperate with the police as their jailhouse informant. Asa returns to his old neighborhood and to his older brother, David, a successful realtor who made his money in dubious business dealings. Conflicting interests put Asa in precarious situations, and he finds himself torn between his life of crime and his work with the police, all the while skillfully navigating both worlds to his advantage.

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  • The Missing File 2019

    A missing persons investigation of a young boy who has disappeared, a briefcase filled with explosives that is placed near a kindergarten, and a murder that takes places without no one ever knowing about. These events revolve around one detective who doesn't necessarily see everything he should, but whose "blindness" is precisely what will lead him to the truth.

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  • Poster for Asylum City

    Asylum City 2018

    Based on the best-selling novel by the same name, "Asylum City" is set in the underworld of refugees and asylum seekers; those looking to help them and those who take advantage of their plight. A young social activist is found dead and the main suspect is an asylum seeker from Africa who was seen leaving her apartment. Police Officer Anat Sitton leads the murder investigation, unravelling a complex world of corrupt politicians, organized crime and illegal arms deals, putting her in the center of a dangerous and parallel universe with its own codes and morals.

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  • Poster for Children in the Woods

    Children in the Woods 2022

    Ami, a cunning and obsessive Israeli investigator, exposes an international crime syndicate dealing in the trafficking of new born babies. Marginalized women from Israel, among other places, are secretly flown to Europe to give birth in a designated farm in the forest. The mystery becomes more troubling when it becomes clear that the women are induced way before their due date. In a race against the clock and as more babies disappear, Ami partners with Audrey, a brave and rigidly professional European investigator.

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  • Poster for Hooligans

    Hooligans 2025

    Meni Azulai, who arrives at Teddy Stadium every Saturday with a supermarket cart. Not for the game itself, Meni isn’t even a football fan. He's a lone wolf with an explosive temperament. Though the game doesn’t interest him, when he saves a man who turns out to be the leader of the club’s radical fan organization, the police force him to become an undercover agent against his will.

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  • Poster for Queens

    Queens 2018

    The series begins one night at the height of the bachelor party of Eyal Malka on the family yacht, one of the largest crime families in Israel. Until they board the yacht and assassinate all the men and soldiers of the family. The women of the Malka family, who lost their status and strength in one run, are thrown into a new reality in which they must struggle for their place in a masculine world that only sanctifies power. The series tells the story of the women of the family who try to stand on their feet again and restore the family business taken from them, as well as avenge the death of their loved ones.

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  • Poster for Embezzlement

    Embezzlement 2021

    The story of Eti Alon, an employee in the "Bank LeMischar," who embezzled a quarter of a billion shekels from the customers' money and gave it to her gambling addict brother Ofer.

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  • Poster for Mama's Angel

    Mama's Angel 2016

    Several families are living their uneventful lives in a well-off Tel Aviv suburb until the day someone is murdered in the neighborhood. At first shocked by the event, the neighbors soon start covering up their direct or indirect involvement in the affair.

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  • Poster for Suspect

    Suspect 2015

    A young, successful lawyer has to commit the perfect crime in just one day in order to save her family from a psychotic loan-shark.

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  • Poster for Jaffa Pictures

    Jaffa Pictures 1994

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  • Poster for Allenby

    Allenby 2012

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  • Poster for The Policeman's Daughter

    The Policeman's Daughter 2020

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  • Poster for זינזאנה

    זינזאנה 2000

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  • Fair & Square 2004

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  • Poster for אלנבי

    אלנבי 2012

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  • Poster for אניגמה

    אניגמה 2013

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  • Poster for הכבוד של מרציאנו

    הכבוד של מרציאנו 2011

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  • Case of my life 2018

    Tik chaie

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