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More-or-less served as the basis for the acclaimed Showtime series ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', which was actually developed with the creator of ''Hatufim''.

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More-or-less served as the basis for the acclaimed Showtime series ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', which was actually developed with the creator of ''Hatufim''.
''Hatufim''. In contrast to its American successor, the series involves far fewer thriller elements and primarily focuses on the long recovery and readjustment of the soldiers after their prolonged trauma, and the effects their absence and sudden return has on their loved ones.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Non-supernatural version. Uri and Nimrode have missed 17 years of political and technological developments, such as the invention of DVDs (which Nimrode repeatedly mistakes for CDs) and the internet.

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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Non-supernatural version. Uri and Nimrode have missed 17 years of political and technological developments, such as the invention of DVDs [=DVD=]s (which Nimrode repeatedly mistakes for CDs) [=CD=]s) and the internet.world wide web.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Yael interrupts her own - she swallows a bottle of pills, but changes her mind and calls an ambulance before any serious harm is done
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* DeadPersonConversation: Grieving and in denial, Yael imagines that her brother really came home, and carries on talking to him and interacting with him.
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* BreakTheCutie: Yael does 'not' take her brother's death well.

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* BreakTheCutie: Yael does 'not' ''not'' take her brother's death well.
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* BreakTheCutie: Yael does 'not' take her brother's death well.
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* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: The insurgents threatened to kill Uri unless Nimrode continued beating a weak, bleeding, and bound Amiel, until finally the latter died. Apparently.]]
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* SurvivorGuilt: Nimrode suffers this in particular, as he is plagued by memories of his captors [[spoiler: forcing him to kill Amiel with his bare hands]].
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Uri's mother.
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* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: As we find out at the end of series 1, Amiel.]]

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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: During his captivity, Uri's girlfriend Nurit became convinced that he had died and married his brother Yaakov.



* IWillWaitForYou: Talya. Though her reunion with her husband is far from simple.
** Ironically, it is Nurit who spoke these words to Uri before he left to perform active duty, but in her case, [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder Absence Made The Heart Go Yonder]].



* PresidentMinority: An unnamed female Prime Minister greets Uri and Nimrode on their return. Though, of course, Israel's already had one of these.



* PresidentMinority: An unnamed female Prime Minister greets Uri and Nimrode on their return. (Though, of course, [[GoldMeir Israel's already had one of those]]).
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Non-supernatural version. Uri and Nimrode have missed 17 years of political and technological developments, such as the invention of DVDs (which Nimrode repeatedly mistakes for CDs) and the internet.


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* PresidentMinority: An unnamed female Prime Minister greets Uri and Nimrode on their return. (Though, of course, [[GoldMeir Israel's already had one of those]]).
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** [[spoiler: Subverted by TheReveal at the end of series 1.]]
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More-or-less served as the basis for HBO's ''Series/{{Homeland}}''.

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More-or-less served as the basis for HBO's ''Series/{{Homeland}}''.
the acclaimed Showtime series ''Series/{{Homeland}}'', which was actually developed with the creator of ''Hatufim''.
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Israeli drama series (originally titled ''Hatufim'') dealing with the return and slow rehabilitation of three [[IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles IDF]] soldiers who have spent 17 years as prisoners of [[ArabIsraeliConflict Arab insurgents]] following their capture in Lebanon.

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Israeli drama series (originally titled ''Hatufim'') ''Hatufim'', literally "Abductees") dealing with the return and slow rehabilitation of three [[IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles IDF]] soldiers who have spent 17 years as prisoners of [[ArabIsraeliConflict Arab insurgents]] following their capture in Lebanon.
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More-or-less served as the basis for HBO's ''Series/Homeland''.

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More-or-less served as the basis for HBO's ''Series/Homeland''.
''Series/{{Homeland}}''.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: The way the Israeli public treats Nurit, who remarried after Uri's kidnapping, in comparison to Talya, the "faithful wife", reeks of this trope. Good thing Nurit makes up her mind not to take it lying down.
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* PrisonerExchange: How Uri and Nimrode are returned to Israel, and not everyone in the country is happy about the trade.
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* StoicWoobie: Nimrode is determined to put his ordeal behind him and catch up with his old life as quickly as possible, to the point of being self-destructively negligent of his own mental health.
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* TroubledFetalPosition: Both of the POWs on occasion, but Uri does this far more frequently.

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* TroubledFetalPosition: Both of the POWs returnees on occasion, but Uri does this far more frequently.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Shots]] are employed.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick [[{{Squick}} electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Shots]] are employed.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer GoryDiscretionShots are employed.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer GoryDiscretionShots [[GoryDiscretionShot Gory Discretion Shots]] are employed.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer GoreDiscretionShots are employed.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer GoreDiscretionShots GoryDiscretionShots are employed.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer DiscretionShots are employed.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer DiscretionShots GoreDiscretionShots are employed.
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* TheArabIsraeliConflict

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* TheArabIsraeliConflictArabIsraeliConflict
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TheArabIsraeliConflict
ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer DiscretionShots are employed.
DeadAllAlong: The third soldier who was taken captive, Amiel, returns home in a coffin.
IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: Naturally. Numerous characters are associated with the IDF in some shape or form, including Nimrode's daughter Dana.
NervousWreck: Uri, Uri, Uri. He barely speaks, jumps at sudden movements and noises, and has a tendency to huddle in corners.
ShellShockedVeteran
StoicWoobie: Nimrode is determined to put his ordeal behind him and catch up with his old life as quickly as possible, to the point of being self-destructively negligent of his own mental health.
TroubledFetalPosition: Both of the POWs on occasion, but Uri does this far more frequently.

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TheArabIsraeliConflict
ColdBloodedTorture:
*TheArabIsraeliConflict
*ColdBloodedTorture:
Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer DiscretionShots are employed.
DeadAllAlong: *DeadAllAlong: The third soldier who was taken captive, Amiel, returns home in a coffin.
IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: *IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: Naturally. Numerous characters are associated with the IDF in some shape or form, including Nimrode's daughter Dana.
NervousWreck: *NervousWreck: Uri, Uri, Uri. He barely speaks, jumps at sudden movements and noises, and has a tendency to huddle in corners.
ShellShockedVeteran
StoicWoobie:
*ShellShockedVeteran
*StoicWoobie:
Nimrode is determined to put his ordeal behind him and catch up with his old life as quickly as possible, to the point of being self-destructively negligent of his own mental health.
TroubledFetalPosition: *TroubledFetalPosition: Both of the POWs on occasion, but Uri does this far more frequently.

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Israeli drama series which more-or-less served as the basis for HBO's [[Series/Homeland ''Homeland'']].

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Israeli drama series which more-or-less (originally titled ''Hatufim'') dealing with the return and slow rehabilitation of three [[IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles IDF]] soldiers who have spent 17 years as prisoners of [[ArabIsraeliConflict Arab insurgents]] following their capture in Lebanon.

More-or-less
served as the basis for HBO's [[Series/Homeland ''Homeland'']].''Series/Homeland''.

!!This series provides examples of :

TheArabIsraeliConflict
ColdBloodedTorture: Nimrode, Uri and Amiel endured years of beatings, burns, mock hangings, [[Squick electrocution of genitals]] . . . . and as the series progresses, fewer DiscretionShots are employed.
DeadAllAlong: The third soldier who was taken captive, Amiel, returns home in a coffin.
IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles: Naturally. Numerous characters are associated with the IDF in some shape or form, including Nimrode's daughter Dana.
NervousWreck: Uri, Uri, Uri. He barely speaks, jumps at sudden movements and noises, and has a tendency to huddle in corners.
ShellShockedVeteran
StoicWoobie: Nimrode is determined to put his ordeal behind him and catch up with his old life as quickly as possible, to the point of being self-destructively negligent of his own mental health.
TroubledFetalPosition: Both of the POWs on occasion, but Uri does this far more frequently.
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Israeli drama series which more-or-less served as the basis for HBO's [[Series/Homland ''Homeland'']].

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Israeli drama series which more-or-less served as the basis for HBO's [[Series/Homland [[Series/Homeland ''Homeland'']].
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Israeli drama series which more-or-less served as the basis for HBO's [[Series/Homland ''Homeland'']].

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