Trivia / Ha Chartzufim

• What Could Have Been: The very first puppet made for the show was then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated several months before the show's 1996 debut. Rabin would have well ended up as a main character otherwise, but only appeared twice in the actual show - once for a song that criticizes the deification made around him after his murder, and another in the 1999 election special when he says the Labor Party has to go on without him.