Inyan Shel Zman

Inyan Shel Zman
Inyan Shel Zman
	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[]

Inyan Shel Zman - All Seasons, on Kan Educational.
Inyan Shel Zman at IMDb