“There wasn’t a single person on set—crew or cast—who didn’t have a moment during filming,” said executive producer Lawrence Bender.
“Creating art so close to the event has a certain rawness—it comes from the gut, from emotion that hasn’t yet faded or been sanitized by distance,” said Lior Chefetz, creator, writer and director of “Red Alert,” a television series recounting the horrors of the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7,2023. “That immediacy can be an essential part of truth-telling.”
“Red Alert,” which premiered on Keshet 12 on Oct. 5 and on Paramount+ on Oct. 7, tells the stories of ordinary Israelis who became heroes when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 hostages. More than two years later, the bodies of four of those hostages remain in Gaza.
Filming the series, Chefetz said, was a formidable challenge.