At a recent event marking the 25th anniversary of Yes, the company revealed clips and information about its diverse upcoming Israeli series, including the trailer for the fifth season of Fauda, which will be released in 2026.
Ilan Sigal, the CEO of Yes, said, “The company’s enormous financial investment in Israeli creation is also based on the national mission we have taken on, to support Israel’s outreach efforts around the world through the topical and cross-border content we have created.” He emphasized that Yes values original Israeli productions and makes investing in them a priority.
The new Fauda trailer features Lior Raz, back as fearless counterterrorist Doron Kavillio, who is joined by French actress Mélanie Laurent, as well as by series regulars Itzik Cohen, Doron Ben-David, and Yaakov Zada Daniel. As has been widely reported, this series created by Raz and Avi Issacharoff already had a storyline for the fifth season, but they scrapped it following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and rewrote the episodes to reflect the current war.
“If we don’t do this, this day will haunt us for the rest of our lives,” says one of the characters as they undertake their latest mission.
Titles in the trailer promise, “Revenge is just the starting point,” and in the aftermath of the attack, Doron and his colleagues head to Marseilles for an off-the-grid mission that officials will deny knowledge of if they are caught.
Doron, wrapped in a keffiyeh, joins protesters at a pro-Palestine march, as another character comments, “This isn’t Provence.”
The fifth season will premiere on Yes in Israel in 2026, and following that, will become available worldwide on Netflix.
Other highlighted shows
Other highlights of the upcoming Yes slate include the second season of the series One Day in October, which also addresses the Hamas attack. The fact-based series, which was co-created by Oded Davidoff and Daniel Finkelman, features three true stories of heroism.
One is based on the experiences of Omer Shem-Tov, who was kidnapped into Gaza from the Supernova music festival; a second is about Inbal Lieberman, the young security coordinator for Kibbutz Nir Am, whose quick thinking and bravery saved the kibbutz from suffering casualties; and the third focuses on the Golan-Hogeg family, whose home was firebombed and who suffered severe burns but managed to survive and save the life of their baby daughter. Among the actors in the series are Lior Ashkenazi, Neta Roth, Michael Aloni, Moran Rosenblatt, Sean Softi, and Uri Perelman.
There is a series in production based on Lihi Lapid’s novel, On Her Own, a character-driven thriller centering on the unlikely bond that develops between Nina (Yael Karpalov), a teen girl from Mitzpe Ramon who witnesses a murder and flees from her gangster boyfriend. In a neglected corner of Tel Aviv, she takes refuge with an elderly woman (beloved comedian and actress Rivka Michaeli) who mistakes Nina for her granddaughter (Eden Golan, Israel’s 2024 Eurovision contestant).
It also stars Oz Zehavi as the dangerous boyfriend and Yana Yosef as the girl’s worried mother. The series was created by Lapid and Zion Rubin and written by the two of them and Noa Gusakov. On Her Own is a gripping novel, which was translated into English and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist for both the Book Club Award and Hebrew Fiction in Translation.
The second season of the series Bloody Murray, for which its creator Stav Idisis won the comedy competition at the prestigious Series Mania festival in France, continues to follow the mismatched roommates Mor “Murray” (Naomi Levov), a rom-com writer, and Dana (Rotem Sela), a gynecologist, as they embark on their latest adventure: becoming mothers before it’s too late.
Musical series
Noa Kirel’s fans will be happy to learn that she is starring in a docu-reality series, I Am Noa Kirel, in which the 24-year-old pop diva allows the cameras to follow her as she performs around the world at a breakneck pace, falls in love with a soccer player, and deals with the October 7 attack.
Another musical series, Corinne Allal: Farewell Tour, focuses on the distinctive, beloved singer-songwriter, who died in December after a long battle with cancer. It looks at her struggle to continue performing until the end of her life and mixes recent clips with interviews and performances from throughout her career, showcasing her classic songs such as “Rare Breed” and “I Have No Country,” both of which became anthems of Israeli resilience after October 7.