The tour that Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen made across the Sinai to encourage Israeli troops in the war Yom Kippur (1973) will come to television in the form of a dramatic mini-series scripted by Yehonatan Indursky, creator of the hit production Shtisel (2013), one of the biggest hits on the Netflix platform during the pandemic.

Of course we are going with time, the series, titled Who by fire, filming will begin in 2024 in Israel and will be produced by Keshet International, they announced this Monday, November 28 from the Twitter account of the same Israeli company.

Based on the best seller published by Matti Friedman, columnist of the newspaper The New York Timesin April this year, the production is in the process of being associated with an international TV channel or streaming platform that wants to obtain its broadcasting rights.

What will the series show?

This series will portray theThrough Leonard Cohen’s (1934-2016) journey across the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur Wara tour that marked the poet’s career also due to the extent of the conflict and the symbology of his tour.

“In October 1973, Leonard Cohen – 39 years old, famous and suffering from a creative block – traveled to the Sinai Desert and entered the chaos and blood of the Yom Kippur War,” summarizes the summary of the work published by Keshet International concluded that it was “an electric cultural moment that few knew about”.

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Arab-Israeli War, pitted a coalition of countries led by Egypt and Syria against Israel in 1973.

The conflict began with an unexpected military offensive by the Egyptian armed forces, which crossed the Suez Canal, then under Israeli control, to reconquer the Sinai, and by the Syrian ones to reconquer the strategic Golan plateau. Both Sinai and the Golan Heights had been occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.

In the Yom Kippur contest, Egypt retook a small part of Sinai, opening the door to the 1978 Camp David Accordswhich sealed the peace between Egypt and Israel and for which the Israelis returned the entire peninsula to Cairo.

The Golan, on the other hand, remains under Israeli control despite Syrian claims.

Leonard Cohen’s work

In this context, Leonard Cohen, interpreter of Hallelujahhe managed to assemble a team of local musicians and get to know firsthand the women and men who fought on the front lines before what could be the last concert of their lives.

The Cohen Adventure it so permeated his legacy that references to this conflict would be repeated on his immediately following album, New skin for the old ceremony (1974), and more specifically on his topic Lover, Lover, Loverwritten from an Israeli air base during combat.

More than 50 years after this event, the dramatic mini-series Who by fire will have Yehonatan Indursky (Shtisel) as writer and companies Keshet International and Sixty-Six Media as production managers.

After a long career that spanned not only music, but also literature, Leonard Cohen died in the United States on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82. Songs by him include Suzanne; Goodbye, Marianne; The future Y Everybody knowsamong many others.

Source: EFE

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