Eretz Nehederet

Eretz Nehederet searches for light at the end of the bomb shelter in season finale

The cast of the Israeli comedy show celebrated reaching the end of the season, which, from the end of February until April, had them running to bomb shelters.

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The Home Front Command band party on the comedy show Eretz Nehederet, April 22, 2026
Israeli actor Mariano Edelman of the TV-show "Eretz Nehederet". August 29, 2022.

'Why is this war different from all other wars?': Eretz Nehederet celebrates Passover amid Iran war

This week's episode featured a war version of Dayenu, in which Netanyahu sang, "even if we had not succeeded in toppling the government but had removed the nuclear threat, it would have been enough."

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Quentin Tarantino delivers a speech to open the festival during the opening ceremony and the screening the film "Partir un jour" (Leave One Day) Out of competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 2025.

WATCH: Eretz Nehederet portrays Quentin Tarantino heading for shelter, other tales of resilience

Tarantino, the Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction director living in Israel with his wife Daniella Pick and their children, was portrayed in the opening skit showing how people head to shelters.

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An Eretz Nehederet segment depicting an Iranian official showing AI pictures of Tel Aviv buildings swarmed by massive insects.

As Israelis feel weight of war, Eretz Nehederet finds laughter under fire

Wednesday’s Eretz Nehederet functioned as a kind of snapshot of the mood of the country, and managed, as it has in so many other times of crisis, to give people something to laugh about.

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'Eretz Nehederet' finds black comedy in the coronavirus outbreak

Everything in between the opening and closing poked fun at all the usual targets — politics, celebrities and Fauda — but kept coming back to the virus.

MARCH 12, 2020ByHANNAH BROWN
Eretz Nehederet host Eyal Kitzis

Israeli TV spoofs elections 2030, Quentin Tarantino and his pregnant wife

The show opened in a dystopian wasteland in the year 2030 that was once Tel Aviv, with current Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu still sitting in his prime minister’s chair.

JANUARY 9, 2020ByHANNAH BROWN
Eretz Nehederet spoofs absurd political reality

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef slams satire TV show for depiction of his father

‘As a Jew, as a rabbi, as a son, and as a human I am appalled and ashamed’

APRIL 5, 2019ByAMY SPIRO
The ghost of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Arye Deri appear on Eretz Nehederet Wednesday night

Roseanne Barr, Samantha Bee and the limits of humor

Israeli politicians regularly denounce satirical TV shows – but should we be drawing red lines in comedy?

JUNE 4, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
Actress Roseanne Barr reacts as she arrives at the 75th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 7, 2018.

Bringing the women back to Ramat Beit Shemesh

This past October, in Jerusalem, pictures of actresses from the satirical television program 'Eretz Nehederet' were defaced on billboards throughout the city.

DECEMBER 23, 2017ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Orthodox Jewish women at the Western Wall