ABSTRACT
Nurith Gertz and Raz Yosef discuss the bilingual (Hebrew and Arabic) television drama series Fauda (2015–), which tells the stories of members of a special Israeli army unit, whose members blend into the local population, passing as local Palestinian Arabs. Gertz and Yosef argue that the series dismantles the cohesive imagined national unity and creates an alternative temporality, which will stand in for the traumatic time of terror that keeps coming back from the future and infiltrate the present. This alternative temporality, carried through the motion and fluidity of identities, opens historical possibilities of a shared existence between Israelis and Palestinians. Thus, Fauda makes it possible for viewers to imagine alternative histories, corresponding histories, in opposition to the traumatic history embodied in the series plot.
