Inyan Shel Zman
Inyan Shel Zman | |
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![]() Recordings of the show, at the archive of the IETV | |
Also known as | A Matter of Time |
Genre | Drama |
Written by | Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz |
Directed by | |
Starring | Moshe Ben-Basat Shai Kapon Dana Berger Sharon Haziz Ayelet Zurer Esti Yerushalmi Uri Banai Aviv Geffen |
Opening theme | Inyan Shel Zman by Gidi Gov |
Country of origin | Israel |
Original language | Hebrew |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 57 |
Production | |
Producer | Emanuel Man |
Editor | Yael Graf |
Running time | 22-26 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Israeli Educational Television |
Original release | September 2, 1992 May 13, 1996 | –
Inyan Shel Zman (Hebrew: עניין של זמן) or A Matter of Time is an Israeli teen drama broadcast from 1992 until 1996 on Israeli Educational Television.
The series focused on stories of high school students in Tel Aviv and talked about issues of adolescents such as school, adolescence, love, drafting to the army, social gaps, rape, violence and more. The series would focus in each episode on various secondary characters and show their world and their problems, in addition to the central plot which evolved around the main characters.
The series was directed Yael Graph and Shirley Stern, was written by Ronit Weiss Berkowitz and Eyal Graph.
The theme song to the series was written by Ehud Manor, composed by Rami Kleinstein and was performed by Gidi Gov.
In the years 1998-1999 a spin-off to the series was produced called "". The show ran for 2 seasons.
In 2010 Reshet announced a continuation of the series would be produced.[citation needed]. The revived show, which premiered in 2012 under the same name, revisits many of the characters from the original series, 20 years later. This show ran for one season consisting of 13 episodes.
Cast and characters[]
- Ido Markovich (Hebrew: עידו מרקוביץ') () - The protagonist and Yehezkel Vaitzman's best friend
- Yehezkel Vaitzman (Hebrew: יחזקאל ויצמן) () - Ido's best friend. His mother lives overseas and left him alone to live in Israel.
- Dana (Hebrew: דנה) (Dana Berger) - In seasons 1 and 2, she was a close friend of Sharon's, then in seasons 3 and 4, she became closer with Gali. At one point, she dates a student who is revealed to be a drug dealer (Dean). Dana used to be Ido Markovich's girlfriend. Aviv is shown to be in love with her.
- Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן) () - Ido Markovich's good friend
- Noga Caspi (Hebrew: נגה כספי) (Ayelet Zurer) - A snobbish teenager. She is pious but very smart, and is in love with Alon
- Gali (Hebrew: גלי) () - A teenager without confidence and a good friend of Noga
- Tomer Ben-David (Hebrew: תומר בן דוד) () - Comes from a poor family
- Matti Harel (Hebrew: מתי הראל) () - The physical education teacher. He is very strict, but cares a lot about his students outside of class.
- Menashe Gabay (Hebrew: מנשה גבאי) () - A grumpy and boring history teacher
- Fogel (Hebrew: פוגל) - The school principal, an unseen character
- Aviv (Hebrew: אביב) (Aviv Geffen) - A Rebel
- Alon (Hebrew: אלון) () - A Nerd. He is in love with Noga
- Saar (Hebrew: סער) (Saar Badishi) - A Sensitive musician
- Sarit Ochayun (Hebrew: שרית אוחיון) () - Wants to be friends with Saar
- Dean Bernstein (Hebrew: דין) () - Dana's boyfriend. He often breaks the law and is involved in drugs
- Dafna (Hebrew: דפנה) () - The school beauty queen, she is rich and spoiled
- Michal (Hebrew: מיכל) () - Yehezkel Vaitzman's good friend
- Omer Pikovski (Hebrew: עומר) () - A quiet shy girl
- Itay Katz (Hebrew: איתי כץ) () - Many of his classmates thought he was a homosexual.
- Lior (Hebrew: ליאור) () - Dafna's friend
- Yaron Segal (Hebrew: ירון סגל) (Tomer Sharon)
- Nir Benbenisti (Hebrew: ניר בן-בנישתי) (Nir Friedman)
- Doron (Hebrew: דורון) (Mark Ivanir) - Drama teacher
- Keren Amiel (Hebrew: קרן) ()
External links[]
- Israeli drama television series
- Israeli Educational Television
- Israeli teen drama television series
- 1990s Israeli television series
- 1992 Israeli television series debuts
- 1996 Israeli television series endings
- Youth in Israel
- Culture in Tel Aviv