POMEGRANATE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR STORYTELLING
Biography
Avi Issacharoff is a film and TV creator and producer.
Issacharoff Co-created and wrote the action-drama series "Fauda" (Netflix). He is also the Middle East analyst for YNET and Yedioth Acharonot, an Israeli based news web site and newspaper and an analyst for Middle East Issues for TV and radio. Issacharoff and his partner Lior Raz co-founded Faraway Road Productions and Content, which specifies in producing unique content (scripted and non-scripted) for TV and movies.
February 2015, the action- drama series Fauda (“chaos” in Arabic) that Avi co- created and co-wrote (with Lior Raz) aired and has become what Israeli critics describe “the best action-thriller show that was ever made in Israel”. The program tells the story of an undercover elite Israeli unit and their attempts to capture the number one Hamas terrorist in the West Bank.
On June 2016, Fauda won the Israeli Academy Award for the Best TV Drama of 2015. On December 2016, Fauda was bought by Netflix and aired all over the world. Their new show, Hit and Run, will be aired in the summer of 2021 on Netflix. The two co-created the thriller "Ghosts of Beirut" (Showtime) about the joint assassination operation of the Mossad and CIA of Imad Mughniya from Hizballah.
From 2006 to 2012, Mr. Issacharoff was the Arab affairs columnist for Ha'aretz newspaper. He was also the Middle East Affairs correspondent for Israeli Public Radio between the years of 2000 to 2006. And in 2002, he won the "best reporter" award for the "Voice of Israel” after covering the Second Intifada. Additionally, in 2004, together with Amos Harel, Avi wrote the Seventh War: How we won and why we lost the war with the Palestinians. A year later, the book won an award from the Institute for Strategic Studies for containing the best research on security affairs in Israel.
In 2008, Issacharoff and Harel published their second book 34 Days: The Story of the Second Lebanon War, which won the same prize. Issacharoff has an MA degree in Middle East studies. In his past, Issacharoff served in the Israeli special forces.
