Lior Raz from Fauda: Israel is a nation of content

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Investors are increasingly interested in the potential of Israeli television and cinema. Yossi Medved, CEO of Tale Runners, spoke about this in an interview with Yossi Medved, CEO of Tale Runners, during the afternoon plenary session at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, held on February 15 in Jerusalem, by popular actor and creator of the Netflix television series Fauda. Lior Raz.

“We were a start-up nation but now we are becoming a content nation with many potential new investment opportunities”, — Raz said.

The process is the same, he says. broadcaster,” he noted, adding that, like in the startup world, you need to be prepared for the fact that 9 out of 10 of your shows will fail, as happened with Raza and Issakharov’s last series “Hit and Run”, which was canceled by Netflix in just one season.

Lior Raz, who plays the role of IDF special forces agent Doron Kabilo, took part in the summit along with Avi Issakharov, partner and co-founder of their production company Faraway Media.

Raz said that they are both big fans of romantic comedies. Dorona Kabilo starring in a romantic comedy may be a little hard to imagine, but this is one of 15 projects that the couple has in development.

Some of the projects , such as the upcoming movie Siege of Bethlehem, are Middle Eastern/action dramas, including the planned fifth season of Fauda.

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