Krovim Krovim קרובים קרובים |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by |
Ephraim Sidon B. Michael |
Directed by | Yitzchak Shauli |
Starring |
Hanna Meron Yoram Gaon Liora Rivlin Tiki Dayan Ilan Dar Muli Segev Moshe Gershoni Natalie Meirovitch Galia Kedem |
Theme music composer | Nurit Hirsch |
Country of origin | Israel |
Original language(s) | Hebrew |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 38 (including the reunion episode) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Israeli Educational Television |
Original release | 7 February 1983 – 24 May 1986 Reunion episode: 24 March 2005 |
Krovim Krovim (Hebrew: קְרוֹבִים קְרוֹבִים; lit. Close Relatives) is an Israeli television sitcom created by Ephraim Sidon and B. Michael. The series which originally aired on the Israeli Educational Television channel in the years 1983 - 1986 is known as the first Israeli sitcom.
The series focuses on an extended Israeli family which shares a residential apartment building in the center of Tel Aviv.
The opening tune of the series was composed by Nurit Hirsch.
The series focuses on an extended Israeli family which lives in three apartments iresidential apartment building in the center of Tel Aviv. Ilan and Tiki, and their daughter Galia live on the third floor, Yoram (Tiki's brother) and Liora live on the second floor with their three children - Eviatar, Efrat and Molly. Hannah, who is Yoram and Tiki's aunt, live on the first floor.
The series dealt mainly with a variety of topics from everyday life situations of typical middle class urban secular Israeli families in Israel in the 1980s, such as School plays, IDF Flight course, Vegetarianism, Astrology, elections for the board of the Condominium, dealing with burglary, celebrating birthdays, and other satirical and social topics such as inflation, Israel–United States relations, hiring an Israeli Arab house keeper, Mizrahim-Ashkenazim relations, Intermarriages, etc.