Autonomies

Autonomies (Hebrew: אוטונומיות) is an Israeli dystopian drama miniseries created by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky.

The series takes place in a parallel present, about thirty years after the bloody events of 1989, which ultimately led to the establishment of a Haredi federation in Jerusalem where Jewish law reigns.

In order to move between the two entities, permits and border controls are necessary The local economy in the Haredi autonomy is facing difficulties.

Goni, a girl raised by the secular couple Batia (Dana Ivgy) and Asher Luzzatto (Jacob Zada Daniel), turns out to be the daughter of Elka (Tali Sharon) and Hilik Rein (Dan Castoriano), the daughter and son-in-law of the Rebbe of Kreinitz (Shuli Rand).

Broide gets an offer from the Rebbe, who also receives smuggled books from him, in which he is required to kidnap the girl who is at the centre of a legal battle over custody between the two Haredi and secular families.

During the events Elka accuses her father of organizing the kidnapping for political purposes to scorch the proposal of a union between the religious autonomy and the secular State of Israel.

But “Autonomies” shows that it could lead to the point where Israel’s various cultures could begin to appreciate each other’s beauty rather than feeling mutually threatened.”[5] Tablet compared the series favourably to Fauda and described it as “suspenseful.”[6] Keshet International is in the early planning stages of an English-language adaptation of the format, set in the United States and using America’s own blue state-red state divide as a substitute for the original Israeli plot.