Fauda

Trusting your audience: What NAZA could learn from Fauda's latest season - editorial

Israeli self-criticism has never been absent from Israeli culture. Fauda itself is proof.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Director Yuval Abraham and Director Rachel Szor winners of the Special Jury Prize for "Naza" attend a photocall on the red carpet following the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido on September 12, 2026.
Lior Raz and Mélanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Fifth season of 'Fauda' sparks viral international reactions to October 7-focused episodes

Within a day of its release on Netflix, the series had already ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries and was leading to new understandings of the massacre.

|ByMAARIV ONLINE
YAAKOV ZADA-DANIEL (right) and Lior Raz in Season Five of ‘Fauda.'

What to watch this week: ‘Fauda,’ ‘The Sixteenth Sheep,’ and 9/11 tributes

TV Time: Fauda’s final season confronts October 7 and the cost of revenge, alongside new documentaries on Israeli music and 9/11.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Lior Raz and Mélanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Fauda returns to Netflix with season shaped by October 7 massacre

Season five of Fauda tackles October 7 and its aftermath, while Playlist looks back at Israeli counterterrorism cinema and a new crime drama finding viewers abroad.

|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS

Fauda season 5 to premiere with revamped plot and new faces

Fauda’s fifth season is back with a new revenge-driven plot, new faces like Mélanie Laurent, and an updated storyline reflecting the aftermath of the October 7 massacre.

APRIL 26, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
Lior Raz and Mélanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Worldwide TV sensation 'Fauda' to be adapted for the big screen - report

Fauda, the Israeli TV series about a counterterrorism unit that became a worldwide sensation on Netflix, will be made into a movie.

OCTOBER 21, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Lior Raz and Melanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

25 ViZionaries Idan Amedi and Miriam Amedi - No. 16

With Idan called to reserve duty, Miriam returned early from maternity leave to continue her advocacy work.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Idan Amedi and Miriam Amedi

'Fauda' on the frontlines: How one Israeli national fights against Russia for Ukraine's SBU

MILITARY AFFAIRS: One Israeli special forces soldier is using his training to fight against Russia's war in Ukraine.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025BySHIMON BRIMAN
‘I MAKE and launch reconnaissance drones with Stars of David on their wings, under fire on the front line – the Russians see this and go crazy,’ Eyal Israeli said of his work directing Ukrainian artillery fire.

Fauda will not film in Marseille due to 'security issues'

Fauda's fifth season will film in Budapest instead of Marseille due to security concerns. The new season will air in 2026.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Lior Raz and Melanie Laurent in season five of Fauda.

Sam Spiegel International Film Lab to hold pitching event at Venice Film Festival

This is the first time since its establishment 13 years ago that Sam Spiegel's International Film Lab will hold its annual pitching event as part of the Venice Film Festival.

AUGUST 25, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Participants in the Sam Spiegel Film Lab, whose films will be at the pitching event at the Venice Film Festival.

Yes reveals ‘Fauda’ trailer and the rest of its upcoming Israeli slate

The fifth season of Fauda will be released in 2026.

AUGUST 5, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
ILAN SIGAL (center), the CEO of Yes, with Rotem Sela (left), the star of ‘Bloody Murray’, and Lior Raz, the star and co-creator of ‘Fauda.’

Mélanie Laurent to star in Fauda’s fifth season

Idan Amedi will be returning as a guest after he was wounded while fighting in Gaza.

APRIL 14, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Mélanie Laurent, an award-winning French actress who will star in the fifth season of Fauda.

Grapevine: Well wishes to Idan Amedi

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

FEBRUARY 15, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ISRAELI ACTOR (‘Fauda’) and reserve soldier Idan Amedi, who was seriously wounded in the Gaza Strip, attends a press conference upon his release from the Sheba Medical Center in January.

Smotrich says he 'didn't know' about Hamas's Nukhba forces before October 7

Finance Minister Smotrich faced backlash after admitting he hadn't heard of Hamas's elite Nukhba force before October 7, despite serving in Israel's Defense Ministry.

DECEMBER 15, 2024BySHIR PERETS
Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, October 23, 2023