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Shtisel (Hebrew: שטיסל) is an Israeli television drama series about a fictional Ashkenazi orthodox family living in Geula, Jerusalem. Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series premiered on 29 June 2013 on yes Oh. It commenced distribution via the online streaming service Netflix in 2018. The first two seasons have 12 episodes per season, and the third season has 9 episodes.
In May 2019, the show was renewed for a third season, though filming was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A trailer was released in September, revealing that Season 3 is set seven years after the death of Akiva's mother (six years after the events of the first episode). Season 3 premiered on 20 December 2020, and became available on Netflix starting 25 March 2021. Due to the end of the streaming contract between Yes Studios and Netflix, all three seasons were removed from Netflix on 25 March 2023.
The series follows the lives of Shulem Shtisel (Dov Glickman), the Shtisel patriarch and a rabbi at the local cheder, and other members of his family. Shtisel is set in a Haredi, Internet-free neighborhood. The community follows strict Haredi customs, and violating the norms often causes chaos within the family. However, the characters who are more open to a secular lifestyle reflect Geula's moderation in comparison to their neighbors in Mea She'arim, the adjacent community known for even harsher religious fundamentalism.
Akiva Shtisel, a 26-year-old, single Haredi man, lives with his widower father, Shulem Shtisel. After starting work as a cheder teacher, Akiva falls in love with the twice widowed Elisheva Rotstein, the mother of a student in his class. He asks a matchmaker to set up a meeting for them, much to the chagrin of Shulem, who wants Akiva to wed a never-married young Haredi woman. Elisheva and Akiva meet but she refuses to continue. Shulem urges Akiva to meet with 19-year-old Esti Gottlieb. On their second meeting, Akiva, still in love with Elisheva, says he is not yet ready for marriage, and Esti starts to cry. Faced with guilt, Akiva proposes marriage to Esti, and they get engaged.
Giti Weiss, Shulem's daughter and Akiva's sister, says goodbye to her husband Lippe Weiss, who flies to Argentina for six months as part of his job as a kosher butcher. Lippe's boss tells Giti that her husband has run away with a Gentile woman. A disgraced Giti looks to provide for her five children, first by working as a babysitter for a secular woman, and then exchanging money at home. Though she still loves him, she confesses the hardship her husband has put them through to her eldest daughter Ruchami, who grows resentful of Lippe. Later feeling guilty, he decides to return home, and struggles to find forgiveness from Ruchami. Giti refuses to discuss the past, but her anger shows up in other ways.
Zvi Arye, Giti and Akiva's brother, competes for a teaching job at the kolel, where he studies hard, but he doesn't get the job.
Grandmother Malka, Shulem's mother, lives in a nursing home, and is exposed to television for the first time in her life, which Zvi Arye and Shulem find abhorrent, and they come up with many ways to prevent her from viewing it. She maintains a genial frenemies relationship with a neighbor.
Akiva finds a job as a painter. He paints for Leib Fuchs, a well-known Haredi artist. Their agreement consists of Akiva painting for him, and Fuchs selling the paintings as if they were his own.
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Shtisel
Shtisel (Hebrew: שטיסל) is an Israeli television drama series about a fictional Ashkenazi orthodox family living in Geula, Jerusalem. Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series premiered on 29 June 2013 on yes Oh. It commenced distribution via the online streaming service Netflix in 2018. The first two seasons have 12 episodes per season, and the third season has 9 episodes.
In May 2019, the show was renewed for a third season, though filming was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A trailer was released in September, revealing that Season 3 is set seven years after the death of Akiva's mother (six years after the events of the first episode). Season 3 premiered on 20 December 2020, and became available on Netflix starting 25 March 2021. Due to the end of the streaming contract between Yes Studios and Netflix, all three seasons were removed from Netflix on 25 March 2023.
The series follows the lives of Shulem Shtisel (Dov Glickman), the Shtisel patriarch and a rabbi at the local cheder, and other members of his family. Shtisel is set in a Haredi, Internet-free neighborhood. The community follows strict Haredi customs, and violating the norms often causes chaos within the family. However, the characters who are more open to a secular lifestyle reflect Geula's moderation in comparison to their neighbors in Mea She'arim, the adjacent community known for even harsher religious fundamentalism.
Akiva Shtisel, a 26-year-old, single Haredi man, lives with his widower father, Shulem Shtisel. After starting work as a cheder teacher, Akiva falls in love with the twice widowed Elisheva Rotstein, the mother of a student in his class. He asks a matchmaker to set up a meeting for them, much to the chagrin of Shulem, who wants Akiva to wed a never-married young Haredi woman. Elisheva and Akiva meet but she refuses to continue. Shulem urges Akiva to meet with 19-year-old Esti Gottlieb. On their second meeting, Akiva, still in love with Elisheva, says he is not yet ready for marriage, and Esti starts to cry. Faced with guilt, Akiva proposes marriage to Esti, and they get engaged.
Giti Weiss, Shulem's daughter and Akiva's sister, says goodbye to her husband Lippe Weiss, who flies to Argentina for six months as part of his job as a kosher butcher. Lippe's boss tells Giti that her husband has run away with a Gentile woman. A disgraced Giti looks to provide for her five children, first by working as a babysitter for a secular woman, and then exchanging money at home. Though she still loves him, she confesses the hardship her husband has put them through to her eldest daughter Ruchami, who grows resentful of Lippe. Later feeling guilty, he decides to return home, and struggles to find forgiveness from Ruchami. Giti refuses to discuss the past, but her anger shows up in other ways.
Zvi Arye, Giti and Akiva's brother, competes for a teaching job at the kolel, where he studies hard, but he doesn't get the job.
Grandmother Malka, Shulem's mother, lives in a nursing home, and is exposed to television for the first time in her life, which Zvi Arye and Shulem find abhorrent, and they come up with many ways to prevent her from viewing it. She maintains a genial frenemies relationship with a neighbor.
Akiva finds a job as a painter. He paints for Leib Fuchs, a well-known Haredi artist. Their agreement consists of Akiva painting for him, and Fuchs selling the paintings as if they were his own.