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Kipat Barzel

Kipat Barzel is an Israeli television drama series that aired between 2017 - 2018 on Channel 2 and Keshet 12. It focuses on the lives of Haredi recruits in a special unit of the I…

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Kipat Barzel is an Israeli television drama series that aired between 2017 - 2018 on Channel 2 and Keshet 12. It focuses on the lives of Haredi recruits in a special unit of the Israel Defense Forces. The series starred Roy Nik and ran for two seasons, for a total of 16 episodes.

Season 1

Amram (Roy Nik) and his friend Shimi Elbaz (Adi Alon) escape from two men who chased them in the alleys of Pardes Katz following the theft of a bundle of diamonds hidden in a mezuzah that belonged to the criminal Avigdor (Oren Cohen). During the chase, Amram gets on the bus, which turns out to be a bus transporting ultra-Orthodox Jews to a military service base, where he enlists.

When Yaacov returns home for Shabbat, his father refuses to let him into the family home, and sends him to stay with his grandmother. Before Shabbat, Yaacov and Amram, in civilian clothes but with their guns on their shoulders, encounter a group of haredi youths, including Yaacov's brother, and in the chaos that ensues, the youths steal Yaacov and Amram's guns.Yaacov and Amram report the theft to their commanders. The guns are returned by one of the thieves but without punishment. Yaakov and Amram decide to take revenge on the youths, with Amram stealing grenades from the base, but Elisheva (Yael Folmam), an officer, convinces him not to break the law and Amram decides to return the grenades but is caught doing so. Yaacov convinces his friends in the department to protest for Amram's release. The platoon commander, Alexey (Ilya Tsibolsky), appeals to the commanding general and Amram is released from the army prison.

After his release, Amram is in contact with Elisheva. When the unit is on Shabbat leave, Amram decides to go to Efrat - the town where Elisheva lives. Amram misses the bus back and Elisheva's mother invites Amram to stay with them on Shabbat, to the dismay of Elisheva's brother, Benji and a sergeant in Amram's unit. During Shabbat Yonatan (Yuval Shevah), Elisheva's little brother and Amram break into the Yishuv's secretariat and Yonatan steals an iPhone from there. On Saturday night, Benji finds out about the burglary and after finding the iPhone in Amram's bed, he accuses him of theft and Amram leaves their house in anger and hits a guy who teased him. Elisheva understands that Amram is not guilty and wanted to apologize after him. Later she inquires about his past and his father (Eyal Rosales) and also about the fact that his mother did not die as he had claimed.

At the same time, a hesitant connection develops between Yaacov and Sergeant Tamar (Suzanna Papian). Tamar lies to Jacob and claims that she is blonde and after several nights of talking about the relationship, they exchange books. Yaacov decides to return the book to Tamar but confuses her with her blonde friend and Tamar is hurt by him. After she helps him with a media interview, he apologizes. However, due to her being secular, Yaacov also decides to go on a date arranged for him by Rabbi Aryeh Arablich (Yehuda Barkan), head of the Viznich yeshiva, and he decides to get engaged. As a result, he chooses to retire from the army, but Tamar comes to visit him in Bnei Brak, hears that he is engaged and the rumor that he is meeting with her reaches his parents. Yaacov cancels the engagement and returns to the army.

Gur Aryeh (Avi Mazliah), a settler who belonged to the Hilltop Youth and enlists unexpectedly, is under pressure from the Shin Bet officer Sefi (Rotem Kenan) who threatens to "kick him out" and asks him to provide information and he informs about Amram's grenades without his knowledge. He was sexually harassed as a child by Rabbi Yisrael Menashe (Ishai Golan), his father's friend, who told him to call off his engagement, to enlist and leave the yeshiva. He almost burns the rabbi's office but is discovered by him in the act. He tells Sefi that the rabbi has gasoline in his locker, resulting in his arrest. A platoon rabbi, Eliyahu Garnot (Danny Shtag) allows Rabbi Menashe to speak to them, but Gur Aryeh is unable to stay inside and is forced to tell the rabbi about what happened. He turns to one of the soldiers and tells them that he eavesdropped on Amram at night who was his friend before, beats him and kicks him out of the group.

Gur Aryeh barricades itself in a nearby mosque after killing a Palestinian and refuses to come out. While Alexei and the other are trying to get him out, a group of Palestinian youths approach the group of soldiers and throw stones at them. The platoon takes positions but Amram and Yaacov continue to try and get Gur Aryeh to come out. He tells them to leave, and Alexei doesn't listen to him, leading to Gur Aryeh shooting him in the leg and knocking him down. Gur Aryeh requests that Rabbi Menashe comes to the mosque and that they should speak alone. Gur Aryeh asks him why he abused him and the rabbi says that he tempted him and that he will help him fix what he did to him. The rabbi's words cause Gur Aryeh to commit suicide, but no one except those present in the room knows about it and think that he accidentally fired a bullet.

Yaacov finds a recording of the last conversation of Gur Aryeh and passes it on to Rabbi Garnot. The next day, the department arrives at Gur Aryeh's shiva and finds Rabbi Menashe there. When he sees Yaacov and Amram he decides to run away but they stop him outside the house. Rabbi Granot arrives, plays Rabbi Menashe the recording and reports him to the police.

Shimi is almost caught by Avigdor and hands Amram the mezuzah that is installed in the base. He tries to sell it quickly but the customer turns out to be an employee of Avigdor. Later, Avigdor captures Shimi and threatens him, but Shimi promises to return the diamonds to him the next day, and Amram does return them, asking him to leave Shimi. Shimi lies to Amram that Avigdor is pressuring him to pass a bag of cannabis through the army, but Yaacov accidentally catches the messenger.

After a fight with Amram, he passes the

Source: Kipat Barzel (CC BY-SA)

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