Srugim season 2

Srugim
Season 2
Starring	Ohad Knoller Amos Tamam Ya'el Sharoni Tali Sharon Sharon Fauster Uri Lachmi
No. of episodes	15
Release
Original network	Yes
Original release	January 10 (2010-01-10) – May 9, 2010 (2010-05-09)
Season chronology

The second season of Srugim, is an Israeli television drama which originally aired on Yes TV between 10 January 2010 and 9 May 2010. It was directed by Laizy Shapiro, who co-created it with Hava Divon.

Cast

Main article: List of Srugim characters

Main

• Ohad Knoller as Dr. Nethaniel "Nati" Brenner
• Amos Tamam as Amir Yechezkel
• Ya'el Sharoni as Yifat
• Tali Sharon as Hodaya Baruchin
• Sharon Fauster as Reut Rosen
• Uri Lachmi as Roi Brenner

Recurring

• Michael Warshaviak as Gershon Brenner
• Gal Pertziger as Asaf
• Alena Yiv as Clumsy waitress

Plot

Season 2 began approximately six months after the conclusion of season 1. Amir and Yifat get married, and now must cope with the new hardships, including fertility problems and the need to observe ritual purity. Amir returns to his roots and begins praying in a Tunisian synagogue with an old man named Shmuel. He is frowned upon by his Ashkenazi environment. Nati's mother dies, and his brother Roi moves in with him. Reut returns from India after six months, after missing Amir and Yifat's wedding, as well as her sister Elisheva's wedding, who is now pregnant. Reut begins to date Roi, only to have Roi later reveal that he is a homosexual, to Nati's surprise. Reut refuses to give up on them and continues to date him, however Roi eventually ends things. Nati falls in love with Dafna, a divorced mother who works in his hospital as a medical clown, though he leaves her after realizing he cannot cope with raising her son. Hodaya, trying to lead a secular lifestyle, works in a pub and meets Assaf, another formerly religious man, with whom she loses her virginity. She breaks with him after discovering that he began practicing again.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
16	1	""שעת רצון" (A good moment)"	Unknown	Unknown	10 January 2010 (2010-01-10)
17	2	""פנים חדשות" (New Faces)"	Unknown	Unknown	17 January 2010 (2010-01-17)
18	3	""כמו פעם" (Like in the Old Days)"	Unknown	Unknown	24 January 2010 (2010-01-24)
19	4	""מתן בסתר" (Secret Charity)"	Unknown	Unknown	31 January 2010 (2010-01-31)
20	5	""שליש גן עדן" (A Third of Paradise)"	Unknown	Unknown	7 February 2010 (2010-02-07)
21	6	""מקח טעות" (Bad Bargain)"	Unknown	Unknown	14 February 2010 (2010-02-14)
22	7	""שפל רוח" (Poor Spirit/Humble)"	Unknown	Unknown	21 February 2010 (2010-02-21)
23	8	""עיר עפורה" (Grey City)"	Unknown	Unknown	28 February 2010 (2010-02-28)
24	9	""התערבות אלוהית" (Divine Intervention)"	התערבות אלוהית	Unknown	7 March 2010 (2010-03-07)
25	10	""שבעה נקיים" (Seven Clean Days)"	Unknown	Unknown	14 March 2010 (2010-03-14)
26	11	""עולם של " (My World)"	Unknown	Unknown	21 March 2010 (2010-03-21)
27	12	""מילוים" (Reserves)"	Unknown	Unknown	28 March 2010 (2010-03-28)
28	13	"" מחלת השכה הנודדת" (Wandering Amnesia)"	Unknown	Unknown	11 April 2010 (2010-04-11)
29	14	""שקשוקה" (Shakshouka)"	Unknown	Unknown	18 April 2010 (2010-04-18)
30	15	""סמנים בדרךן" (Road Markers)"	Unknown	Unknown	9 May 2010 (2010-05-09)

Production

The second season was shot in the summer of 2009.

Ratings

The second season was broadcast on Yes Stars between 10 January and 9 May 2010. During its airing, it was the most viewed show on Yes' website for February and May, and the second most viewed for March and April. The first episode was the site's most popular upload for 2010 in general. Channel 10 purchased this season and aired it from 16 October 2010 to 29 January 2011. It performed poorly, and had an average rating of merely 4.44%.

Awards

In the 2010 Israeli Academy of Film and Television ceremony, held on 13 July, the show had the largest number of nominations for any candidate, with a total of seven: Best Drama, Best Script, Best Director and two double nominations for the Best Actor – to Knoller and Amos Tamam – and Best Actress, again to Sharoni and Sharon. It lost all except one, receiving only the Award for the Best Script.

Year	Association	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
2010	Israeli Academy of Film and Television	Best drama		Nominated
		Best script		Nominated
		Best director		Nominated
		Best actor	Amos Tamam	Nominated
			Ohad Knoller	Nominated
		Best actress	Ya'el Sharoni	Nominated
			Tali Sharon	Nominated

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Controversy

Bus stop posters for the second season of Srugim became the focus of a controversy when it was discovered that the pages of Jewish text used as a background for the poster's images included the Biblical word referred to as the "ineffable name of God," the description used for the Tetragrammaton (four Hebrew letters commonly transliterated into English as YHVH or YHWH).

Complaints from the ultra-orthodox community led to an agreement not only to have the posters taken down, but also that—given the presence of God's name—they would be buried in a genizah [a burial site for sacred texts], not merely discarded.