Leonard Cohen’s tour of Israel at the height of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is to be made into a TV mini-series by Shtisel creator Yehonatan Indursky, Keshet International and Jill Offman’s Sixty-Six Media.

Israeli network Keshet 12’s “Who By Fire” is based on Matti Friedman’s bestseller “Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” and will shoot in Israel in 2024 with Indursky writing and former Viacom International Studios UK chief Offman executive-producing along with Keshet’s Atar Dekel and Yuval Horowitz.

Keshet 12 is the local broadcaster and distributor. Keshet International is now seeking to bring international broadcast partners on board.

The show will follow the singer’s trip to the Sinai 50 years ago at the height of the Yom Kippur War. There the late singer picked up a team of local musicians and dived headlong into the global crisis, meeting fighting men and women along the way and performing for people who thought this could be their last concert.

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