{"id":52454,"date":"2019-12-24T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T14:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52454"},"modified":"2019-12-24T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T14:36:29","slug":"prisoners-of-war-the-israeli-show-that-became-homeland-is-the-ny-times-favorite-international-series-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/prisoners-of-war-the-israeli-show-that-became-homeland-is-the-ny-times-favorite-international-series-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Prisoners of War,\u2019 the Israeli show that became \u2018Homeland,\u2019 is the NY Times\u2019 favorite international series of the decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 The Israeli television series that was remade in the United States as \u201cHomeland\u201d took the No. 1 spot on The New York Times list of the 30 best international television shows of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prisoners of War,\u201d or \u201cHatufim,\u201d was described as \u201ctense but in a quiet, leisurely, realistic style; a taut and intelligent political thriller that was above all a melancholy, at times heartbreaking character study of soldiers and families damaged by war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show began airing in Israel in March 2010 and is available with English subtitles on Hulu. It was&nbsp;remade in 2011 as \u201cHomeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The popular Israeli television series \u201cFauda\u201d also made the list at No. 8.&nbsp;It launched in 2015 and is entering its third season in Israel. The first two seasons featuring English subtitles is available on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli series \u201cOur Boys\u201d and \u201cShtisel\u201d received honorable mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Other international series that made the top 30 include \u201cThe Crown,\u201d \u201cSherlock,\u201d \u201cKilling Eve\u201d and \u201cFleabag.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%E2%80%98Prisoners%20of%20War%2C%E2%80%99%20the%20Israeli%20show%20that%20became%20%E2%80%98Homeland%2C%E2%80%99%20is%20the%20NY%20Times%E2%80%99%20favorite%20international%20series%20of%20the%20decade\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[10395,3275,1751,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52455,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions\/52455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}