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Fauda Season 5 Launches, Netflix Sets Sept. 8, 2026

9/8/2026

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Raz Launches Fauda

Lior Raz and co-creator Avi Issacharoff launch Fauda’s fifth season, confronting the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
The 11-episode season includes two Oct. 7, 2023 episodes, and the others occur two years later.
Netflix streams the new season worldwide on Sept. 8, 2026.
Production moved from Marseille to Israel and Budapest after security could not be ensured.
Raz said the Oct. 7 massacre forced a rewrite, noting reality exceeded imagination and hoping viewers feel trauma.

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Ruffalo Faces Backlash

Nearly 1,000 entertainment figures signed a letter condemning Mark Ruffalo (actor)’s genocide accusation.
About 180 Jewish artists issued a separate letter defending Mark Ruffalo against antisemitism claims.
Paramount called Mark Ruffalo’s accusation antisemitic and said it went ‘too far.’
Playwright Kenneth Lonergan authored an open letter supporting Mark Ruffalo and rejecting antisemitism charges.
A United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council commission later found Israel committed four genocide acts with intent.

History

Historical Context

After the Holocaust, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention in 1948, creating a legal definition that obliges member states to prevent and punish genocide. Subsequent mechanisms—tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (1993-94) and the ICC’s 1998 Rome Statute—show the convention’s influence but also the UN’s limited preventive record. Today, Lior Raz’s Fauda season and Mark Ruffalo’s accusation invoke that framework as Israel’s post-Oct 7 actions face international legal scrutiny.

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Raz Launches Fauda

Lior Raz and co-creator Avi Issacharoff launch Fauda’s fifth season, confronting the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.
The 11-episode season includes two Oct. 7, 2023 episodes, and the others occur two years later.
Netflix streams the new season worldwide on Sept. 8, 2026.
Production moved from Marseille to Israel and Budapest after security could not be ensured.
Raz said the Oct. 7 massacre forced a rewrite, noting reality exceeded imagination and hoping viewers feel trauma.

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