Ilanit Ben-Yaakov
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
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כבודו
Character: Hanit
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?...
חמישים
Character: Alona Nahmias
Single widow Alona is the mother of three children. Before she turns 50, Alona wants to do two things: sell the script for her dramedy series and sleep with a man ... - The irresistible Ilanit Ben-Yaakov ("Jellyfish", "Your Honor") plays the heroine of this Israeli dramedy series, which also turns out to be a moving portrait of women. [arte.tv]...
עקרון ההחלפה
Character: Racheli
A police forensics officer, traumatized by the horrors he has seen and processed, leaves his job, wife and son and lives on the streets as a homeless wanderer. Try as he does he is unable to completely forget the past and finds himself in a struggle to unlock its secrets and see that justice is done....
שומקום
Character: רבקה "ריקי" צור
The series is about a boarding school in the middle of the desert where at-risk youth are educated. Leli Gordon (Ella Lee Lahav) is a girl who arrived at the age of 11 and has been there ever since and she is actually the leader of the at-risk boys who are fighting for the foster home where they live. On the other hand, there is the Berger family, a hotel and real estate empire, headed by the family's daughter, the lawyer Nofer Berger, who is trying to kick them out in all kinds of serious way...
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Jellyfish
Character: Galia
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the...
A Minor Crime
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With the aid of four actors in a rehearsal room, filmmaker Nur Fibak lays open the police investigation and court proceedings against the man who had molested her, revisiting the case as it unfolded from the moment she decided to seek justice. The film opens a unique window into the workings of the Israeli criminal justice system in sexual offense cases. Behind closed doors, during the cross-examination, everything is permitted, including asking invasive questions, doubting the woman on the witn...
Farewell Column
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2020. Corona era. A journalist with an opinion column who receives hateful messages and threats on his cell phone tries in vain to reach his autistic son who lives in a hostel. His daughter went to protest in Balfour and is not answering the phone. He and his wife go to look for her at the demonstration and try to repair their relationship....
Barren
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A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith....
Inertia
Character: Mira
Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back....
Tropicana
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The mysterious and violent murder of a cashier in a remote small-town supermarket – sends her colleague, Orly Blaish, a conservative middle-aged family woman suffering from advanced muscular dystrophy, to a tense and turbulent journey into the depths of her sexual identity. She races to her sexual spring before her body betrays her....
Tehilim
Character: Orna
A family in Jerusalem is torn apart by the mysterious disappearance of their father after a tragic a car accident....