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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 37: Netflix Fauda: Itzik Cohen and Lior Raz, Israeli drama popular in surprising places
Description: Israel is fast emerging as a hub for international TV drama.Netflix is syndicating a host of Israeli hit shows across 192 countries. It was unthinkable even five years ago that the Startup Nation would add cultural ‘soft power’ to its already established high-tech rollcall of global successes. Fauda was thought just to be of interest to an Israeli audience.Originally only in Hebrew and Arabic, it's the story of the IDF's special units who go deep behind enemy lines to combat terror and rescue hostages.Among the mainstays of all three series is co-c...