Keshet compiles ‘Uvda’ Israel-Hamas war reports for international distribution

Orthodox Ambulance

Keshet International has put together a package of news and current affairs reports produced by Israeli investigative show Uvda, following the 7 October Hamas attacks.

The collection is titled Inside Israel: This Is War, and is being made available for international distribution, including seven films that were created in response to requests from Keshet International clients for detailed, locally produced news reports covering the attacks and resulting Israel-Hamas war.

Produced for Israeli channel Keshet 12, Uvda is the country’s longest-running long-form news magazine show. It has featured in-depth documentary films, profile interviews, and investigative reports on both domestic and international matters since 1993, with Ilana Dayan at its helm.

The package includes programming that varies in length from 20 to 30 minutes, such as filmmaker Itai Anghel’s report Kibbutz Nir Oz (1 x 20-minutes) which was filmed a week after Hamas’ attack on Israel’s south-west.

Orthodox Ambulance (1 x 22-minutes), meanwhile, follows an ambulance team of three observant Jews who were among the first to respond to the first rocket alarms on 7 October.

How Nir Am Was Saved (1 x 30-minutes) sees investigative reporter Ben Shani travel back to Kibbutz Nir Am, a farming community turned into a warzone on 7 October. Accompanied by security coordinator Inbal Lieberman, they together recreate the events that saw Inbal and her team hold off Hamas terrorists for hours.

Kelly Wright, Keshet International’s MD of distribution, said, “We have hand-picked this package of films with our colleagues at Keshet 12 and Uvda, following requests from our clients for in-depth reporting from inside Israel on the horrifying events of October 7th.

“Produced by Uvda’s internationally recognized team of award-winning filmmakers, these reports offer a different perspective from foreign news coverage – one more focused on the individuals affected by these devastating attacks, and their personal stories of bravery, resilience, and trauma.”