‘Who by Hearth: Leonard Cohen within the Sinai’ Set as New TV Drama

Leonard Cohen’s 1973 go to to the frontlines of the Yom Kippur conflict is about to be dramatized in a brand new restricted TV collection from Keshet Worldwide and Sixty-Six Media.

“Who by Hearth: Leonard Cohen within the Sinai” is an adaptation of Matti Friedman’s ebook of the identical title, which tells the story of Cohen’s 1973 live performance on the frontlines of conflict.

“In October 1973 the poet and singer Leonard Cohen – 39 years previous, well-known, sad, and at a inventive useless finish – traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and blood of the Yom Kippur Battle,” reads the logline. “Transferring across the entrance with a guitar and a pick-up workforce of native musicians, Cohen dived headlong into a worldwide disaster and met tons of of combating women and men on the worst second of their lives. Cohen’s viewers knew his songs could be the very last thing they heard, and those that survived by no means forgot the expertise. The conflict tour was an electrical cultural second, one that also echoes in the present day, – however a second that solely few knew about, till now.”

Cohen’s journey was adopted not lengthy after by his album “New Pores and skin for the Outdated Ceremony,” during which he referenced the conflict, together with “Lover, Lover, Lover,” written at an Israeli air drive base throughout combating, and “Who by Hearth,” which is impressed by a Yom Kippur prayer about human mortality. (The tune was not too long ago lined by PJ Harvey and used because the title observe to Apple TV+ present “Dangerous Sisters.”)

The collection, which is about to shoot in Israel in 2024, can be written by Yehonatan Indursky (“Shtisel”) and govt produced by Sixty-Six Media’s Jill Offman, who introduced the challenge to Keshet.

KI’s Atar Dekel and Keshet Broadcasting’s Yuval Horowitz may also EP.

“As a life-long Leonard Cohen fan, I beloved Matti Friedman’s good ebook from the second I learn it,” mentioned Offman. “With Yehonatan on the helm and with my companions at Keshet, I’m very a lot trying to bringing this his extraordinary story to the display. I arrange Sixty-Six Media searching for undiscovered worldwide tales with common resonance and it’s an honour to have this as our first challenge.”