(Hebrew: פלורנטין) is an Israeli television drama series created by Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky, which aired on Channel 2 from 1997 to 2000, lasting three seasons.
The ensemble cast includes Ayelet Zurer, Karin Ophir, Uri Banai, Sami Huri, Dana Modan, Ami Smolartchik, Nir Friedman and Avshalom Pollak.
[1] In 2000 it featured the first-ever lesbian kiss on Israeli television between Shira (Zurer) and Nicole (Ronit Elkabetz).
[3][4] The series mainly follows three characters who live in a shared apartment in Florentine: Tuti (Ofir), an innocent young woman who loves chocolate, Iggy (Banai), a gay man working as a baker, and their new flatmate, Tomer (Pollak), a film student who moved to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem and struggles with his sexual orientation.
The Florentine neighborhood quickly becomes a symbol of a life of indeterminacy and endless youth, serving as both a point of refuge and a hopeless situation for the complicated characters.