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2020-09-27T09:44:38.431Z


| SupplementsPromises a contra to the right of a "great country", is angry at the portrayal of the Mizrahis as ridiculous, does not accept generalizations towards men • The man behind the success of the "80s" will soon celebrate 50, and before Yom Kippur still feels the need to apologize "I did not think there was a reality in which parents of children could save." Manny Asaig Photography:  Disposal pins


Promises a contra to the right of a "great country", is angry at the portrayal of the Mizrahis as ridiculous, does not accept generalizations towards men • The man behind the success of the "80s" will soon celebrate 50, and before Yom Kippur still feels the need to apologize

  • "I did not think there was a reality in which parents of children could save."

    Manny Asaig

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Manny Asaig is tired of playing the character of the unstoppable provocateur.

The guy who cries a lot, shouts a lot and clashes freely with anyone who does not think like him.

"Sometimes I delete posts I upload," he admits, but adds that there is not much to do about it.

It just comes out of it.

"I have arguments within the family as to why I do not lower my profile a bit, but it is difficult for me," he explains.

"I see a headline in the paper or look at the demonstrations in Balfour, and it turns me on. The emotions drive me crazy, and today I have an audience of close to 40,000 people on Facebook, the vast majority of whom are dying for what I write.

"Ask, and what about self-censorship? So most artists do it, and I understand them. When you take a stand today, you pay a price on the other side. For example, Orna Banai and Achinoam Nini. True, they absorb talkbacks full of poison and disgust, but at the same time they grow "In the industry, they get feedback and positions, and no one boycotts them. No one does Orna Banai Sheaming in the industry like they do me. And she's much more blatant than me."

She lost campaigns because of her opinions.



"It's a price they pay, I admit it. But by and large, it does not hurt them at work. On the contrary. They only earn points in terms of roles in theater and series. I pay a price. In the industry they mark me as the extreme Asaig, just like the shadow. But it's not me. I am reasoned, and I have right-wing views and criticism of parts on the left.

"A lot of people will not work with me. Recently there was a 'Fauda' photographer who made me sheaming on Facebook, photographed my post and wrote a thick hint of 'Do not work with him'. Once I could really get hurt, I was stressed by it. I grew up. I enjoy the love I get. I have peace of mind that I do everything from the heart and soul.

"His parents told him, 'You have no chance, come and learn.'"

Brother, Shalom Asaig // Photo: Pini Silok

"I never received anything. Not even from the prime minister. By the way, all the ministers are my friends. Minister Amir Ohana and Minister Miri Regev are really good friends. We text, talk, meet. I never received anything from them, and I did not demand. Some have become campaigners, and pay To them on posts.

"I like the way Bibi Netanyahu leads the country, the achievements he brings. I think the demonstrations against him have been derailed in terms of incitement, and they are not democratic because a prime minister replaces an election. I look at the demonstrations and understand that this is not an economic crisis. In all the demonstrations, even of the Ethiopians, you will always see anarchist forces, Antifa, the new foundation, breaking the silence, and other far-left associations that are taking a ride.

"I do everything out of love for Israel and tell my truth. There is a Creator for the world, who sees everything, and I try to do as much commandment as possible, respond to everyone and engage in social action. On the other hand, I also do not spare criticism and know I draw fire, but it's something that burns in me." .

Constant worrying about debts

Asaig, who will celebrate his 50th birthday next month, is the youngest son of the Asaig family from Tirat Carmel.

The youngest of eight, a year and a half younger than his comedian brother Shalom Asaig.

He grew up in the 1970s, which means memories of street games, from catch and rope to a new donkey and seven stones.

"Until the '80s we lived ten people in a four-room house. Mom and Dad had one room, another room for my three sisters, and five more children were left. So sleep everywhere, even in the living room. Scatter mattresses. Abnormal fun. People can not understand That thrill. Everything was exciting to us. New shoes were a celebration. Today the abundance is no longer exciting. Do you know what fun it was to build a scooter yourself?

The audience votes at the sign.

"The 80s" // Photo: Ohad Romano

"I've never had a bicycle, and that's a scar. Once Shalom and I managed to arrange money and finally bought an impressive red mountain bike from some guy in the castle. Shalom was in eighth grade, I was in seventh grade. He made a turn, came back, and suddenly a police car stopped Next to us. A policeman comes out with a father and a child. The boy who stole this bike from him. They wanted to stop Shalom, open a case for him, and we even bought them from some bastard who stole them. At the end my mother came down, there were screams and she got us out of it, but we were left without bikes. And without the money.

"Until the children got married, there was no financial well-being at home. I did not think there was a reality in which parents of children could save. And you see, we were still one of the smaller families in the building. The Cohen family had 12 people, Bitton 11, Gigi's family eight and Harush ten. We lived in Amidar's rental, until my father could no longer go up the stairs and we bought them an apartment with an elevator. He died a little later, unfortunately.

"And yet, he passed away worried about the debts. That's how I remember my father, from childhood until he passed away - constantly worrying about how to pay for the grocery store, how to pay for the electricity. Even after we all got married, and we could help him and explain to him 'you have nothing to worry about anymore,' It is still assimilated in him.

"He was a sole breadwinner, so he always had a concern for the family. For years he worked in the Autocars factory, which produced the Susita and the Carmel Duke, and after that he worked until retirement as a painter in the 13th Fleet. And there were falls. I remember one day we saw 'This is it. It!'

And knocked on the door because they came to pick up the TV because of all kinds of debts.

"Before I was drafted, I worked for Zim for a year, and instead of investing my salary in a driver's license, I transferred everything to my father, who would have to pay. My sisters did not enlist, got married early and started helping their parents. , So she was asked to prepare for all the exams and events. And she was not willing to take money, even just for the raw materials. It's all about us. In the pantry my mother had vegetables in a quantity of vegetable store. Boxes on boxes. She would prepare food for the battalions, so most of the money went on Food.

"It hurt me to see the drunks in the neighborhood, but 30 years later you can make a series out of it."

Asaig // Photo: Pini Silok

"It was a different time. The respect for parents was different. Mother was at home. When mother is at home, and forgive me all feminists, it's good for children. Today when women are careerists, and I wish them success, there is some unnatural distance from the children. "And they lose. Career women it's good for the economy, for society, for women, but for children less. That's the reality. That's nature.

Did you feel discriminated against or discriminated against on ethnic grounds?



"Well, at home we almost never heard 'these Ashkenazis did this and that to us.' My father was a humble man, went to work, returned to the synagogue. A funny man. We were not instilled in hatred. That's why, when my sister met the Ashkenazi in 1981 Ofer (Gidi, in the series '80s'), so the Asaig family welcomed him with open arms, in the series I extreme as if he was in a conflict with my father, but it was not really like that because my mother would not allow such a thing, because she controlled the house.

"But apparently it has permeated over the years. Today I look at how Moroccans or Orientals are portrayed in a 'wonderful country,' and unfortunately, they are presented as idiots. It started from the late Uzi Cohen, through Miri Regev and Dudi Amsalem to Amir Ohana.

They're not dumb.

Miri Regev, a friend of mine, sometimes utters nonsense, but she's not a dumb woman.

She was a real officer in the IDF, did not receive ranks like Oded Ben-Ami. So you can criticize, not like what she says, but take her and make her stupid on TV, obscure and loud? This is a line they take there.

"Fouad also got a boob out of the land of fools there. This is not done for an Ashkenazi character. In Israeli satire, people like to stick the image of fools to Mizrahis. Gantz is not taken out as a fool. "Not just politicians. Even if it's a singer, or a man of culture, they will go in the direction of being less wise than average."

What culture did you grow up on?



"A lot of synagogue and traditional culture. We had a lot of encyclopedias at home and I would read them all. I acquired knowledge from there. And we were crazy about TV shows. We saw everything that was broadcast. 'Polti's hotel,' 'Does anyone take care of you?', 'Love ship'. , 'Close relatives', and even 'the big restaurant'. Only in retrospect do we understand today that the whole culture we got was Ashkenazi. Say, we loved Avner Dan's tape, but we rarely saw it on TV. That was the time. You had to be close, and from Ashkenazis were probably close because they lived in the center.

"So my parents said goodbye, 'Do you dream of being in' This Is It '? You have no chance. Take it out of your head and you will learn." This is reflected in the series we did, about the boy no one believed in because it didn't make sense. And in the end He really broke the road, smashed glass ceilings and succeeded. "

How was the relationship between you when you were kids?



"Shalom and I slept together. Sometimes head and tail in the same bed, when uncles would come to sleep with us. So also physically we were very close and we spent most of the childhood together. At some point there was a bit of a disconnect because Shalom is different from me, he is more Blaine Early. To be a good boy. I would get up at six in the morning, do the morning shopping for the whole family at the grocery store; he would go out, make trips to Tel Aviv, which for us was like traveling abroad.

"Already at the age of 15 he appeared on the big stage of Independence Day in the city, but only before the recruitment, when he won first place in 'Youth City 87' and returned home with an organ, after winning cannons there like Avi Greinik, Michal Yanai and others, only then my parents Understand that he can succeed in his profession. " 

"80s": The Bet That Succeeded

He and his brother's adolescence experiences were translated with his brother into the successful series "The 80s," which ended its fifth season on the network 13 this summer.

"Of course I was a bit extreme, but I remember full of guys walking around the street. Every neighborhood had its drunks. As a teenager it hurt me to see their children, but 30 years later it can be made into a comedy. Most of them also do not identify themselves in the series. There are some. I mean, I mean, there's some Gocha who knows the character is based on him, and the narrator knows it's him too. They're kicking. Nobody's complaining.

Asaig // Photo: Pini Silok

"By and large the plot is more accompanied by Shalom's dream, while Manny is the close brother who supports him, the more considerate person within a family who is struggling financially and struggling with the crazy neighbors. I only introduced Manny's love of basketball last season.

"I was sick of basketball. This was my life from sixth grade. I dreamed of being a basketball player. I was a talent. In eighth grade I played for Maccabi Haifa, but the trips killed me and in the absence of financial abilities I had to leave. At 16 I came to Hapoel Haifa, where I thought I would answer Mickey Berkowitz "Next. I played with Guy Goodes and Koren Amisha. I was an outstanding player in the youth and they raised me to train with the seniors. But then the army came, I didn't get an 'outstanding athlete' and they put me in a tank workshop. I went down two leagues to combine basketball with the army, but there it started. Career decline.

"After the army, I returned to Hapoel Haifa and started working for Bezeq. At the same time, I also played for Bezeq's team (in the Workplace League), where I tore the cruciate ligament and was injured. In 1994, tearing a cruciate ligament was usually the end of my career. "Today, God willing, my two children are following me - the eldest played in lower leagues, and the youngest is currently on loan from Maccabi Haifa to Afula in the national league."

Michal met his wife that year, 1994, and within a year we were married.

She came from a "cute Romanian family" and today works at the Haifa District Attorney's Office as a human resources manager.

They have been living in Kiryat Motzkin for years.

"I love Motzkin, but Tirat Carmel is always in my heart, and I am there twice a week."

They have three children.

The eldest Kfir (24) works in sales at Amazon, Tomer (21) plays basketball, and the young Noa is an eighth grader.

"They are good, educated children," he boasts.

"It's an education I grew up on. When a guest came into our house - everyone would go to sleep." 



While you may have encountered an aggressive farewell campaign from the '80s, the announcements of the end of the comedy series were merely a publicity stunt.

“It was a marketing campaign that I didn’t connect to, but I flowed with it with no choice,” he explains.

"It was half true that we really broke up with the '80s and moved on to the' 90s."

Meanwhile, the leap in a decade to the sixth season has yet to be written.

"It's in my head, I still have to work on it," he reveals.

"We will jump a few years forward, to '93. Hello in the entertainment team in Eilat, knows the British Debbie, who gets pregnant, and how it falls on the family, who was not used to getting pregnant out of wedlock. With all the pressure he has to marry her. The significant figures will change. Halbi will go through a phase and an offender will try to get back to the beneficiary.

"Network took a big gamble with the series, who at first did not know how to eat it. Peripheral creators who get a stage to create in prime time is not something we were used to, maybe never.

"Think what it used to be. A Hungarian Ashkenazi wrote 'Saleh Shabati'. Although Kishon is a genius, but I saw the lack of authenticity there, he did not know how to present the character, who came out lame and a little too idle. If I had the honor of writing 'Saleh Shabti' with him ', I would pinpoint to him the figures of the Moroccans. 

"It does not detract from the genius of man, but just as I will not write a series on how Hungarian Jewry experienced immigration to Israel, because I am not Hungarian, then it is better for a Moroccan to write Moroccans. On the other hand, if someone Moroccan were to write 'Saleh Shabati', then even One would not take it and turn it into a movie. " 

The writing broke out - and so did the anxiety

Asaig worked for Bezeq for 14 years.

Started as a service technician and progressed to management positions.

He received a company car, and spent the days installing and repairing telephone and Internet lines.

"I remember that during the trial of the high-speed Internet, I would install ADSL lines in the homes of mobsters in Carmel," he recalls.

"I did not think for a moment about writing and comedy. It was the world of peace. I would have been funny guys too, but unlike him I did not dream of making a career out of it. I would just support him and argue with my parents that 'he will be great'. I have nothing to do with this world, until Shalom turned to me in '99 and said, "You have a good head, throw me some clips. I want to write a stand-up show."

"I lived in Kiryat Yam then. I sat in the kitchen, took a yellow writing pad and filled it with funny situations. Suddenly piles of booklets spilled out of me. Madness. A bomb show came out of it. All the TV he has been doing since, I write for him. I started writing for others, like Rotem. "Abohav, Nancy Brands, Yaakov Cohen. I was the lead writer of 'Laughter from Work', I wrote to all the stand-up comedians there."

And how do you combine that with a career at Bezeq?



"For years I worked nights writing. Sometimes I took extra time off and managed to maneuver. Bezeq executives praised me because they felt I was not neglecting work. In the end I came to the conclusion that my career should be in writing. Hales. In 2007 I took a huge risk because I was with three children , Neat work with lots of benefits, and I left everything.They were surprised I wanted to retire, but I wanted a new way.

"In those years I also suffered from insane anxiety attacks. Shortness of breath, feeling like I was going to die. A bit like a heart attack. And I did not know who was against whom. I went to the emergency room about 200 times, every week they would check me and release. It was a nightmare. 

"I was referred to a Rambam psychiatrist, who determined that I had Panic Disorder and it would not help anything.

I was addicted to Valium.

I took everything, but only one specific pill helped me - 'Seroquest'.

I took it a year, and when I stopped the attacks came back 10 times worse.

Since I'm with this ball.

For 15 years I have been taking one pill a day.

It suppresses the attacks, but also dulls the emotions and makes me a little epic.

"Sometimes there are also depressions, which I have no doubt are related to this pill, but by and large it prevents the anxieties, so I don't care."

Have you perhaps tried any psychological treatment to try to understand where this is coming from?



"I was once in my life to a psychiatrist, and she gave me this pill. She asked if I had been through trauma, but I do not know. It erupted during the run-off shows of Shalom, my son suffered from fever attacks and we kept running to hospitals. I was terribly stressed.



" This too has always happened in situations of gatherings.

I would feel it happening and start walking and coming back, lying down, getting up.

It is not pleasant to die next to people, so I would walk away and deal alone.

In short, an abnormal nightmare.

It ruined my life.

That's why I did not care what the doctor would give me.

By and large, this is a chemical problem in the brain. "

Hope to hurt the other side

Asaig, as you understand, is outraged by many things.

From leftist satire to feminism or even the term “rape culture”.

"It hurts me that no one has the courage to criticize the female side either. It is forbidden. If I say, 'Think a little about your modesty', no matter how I phrase it they will say 'you blame the victim'. I am also against the pants protest. Say Primitive, but I still see a difference between female exposure and male exposure.A man without a shirt is not like a woman without a shirt.

"I hate the concept of misogyny. It does not exist. The word means hatred of women, but women are half the people, and I do not know a man who hates women. I do know a man who does not like a specific woman, or can generalize and say 'gossipy women', but hate Women sweeping?

"Misandria? It's there. Men's hatred. It's feminism, and it exists. A man can be critical of a female organization, like mine. There is criticism of women's loops doing crooked work. They impose their opinions on a lot of women who did not ask for it at all. My sisters are women, my wife is a woman.I love women.Extreme chauvinism exists, I agree, but it exists mostly in certain communities in the country or in underdeveloped countries.

"There are men who have been raped by life and life. The feminists who lead the radical line, who influence the media, have determined that there is a culture of rape in Israel. Rapists in Israel are socially denounced, they are punished. Everyone condemns. These cases are shame for the male sex.

"Look what is happening in the African countries where the infiltrators come from. I do not invent anything here. There is a rape culture with the female circumcision, and when a woman is raped there, then she is stoned - she is guilty, as in the days of Hamorbi. I just came here to protect the male sex. "I hear what's going on in clubs in Tel Aviv, and maybe there are things I do not know. In the area where I live, I do not know any troublemakers."

Are there things that are not laughed at?



"I will never laugh at Muslim clerics. I know it hurts them a lot. I respect them. If I had any qualms about the Holocaust, it would be in the taste and as part of a stand-up show. In season 4 I did an episode about the Demjanjuk trial, that Gidi's grandfather is a Holocaust survivor "Who wants to kill Sheftel. But there was no mockery of the survivors or contempt for the tragedy. There are those who have no God, do not make an account. You can not laugh at everything. Can you laugh at pedophilia?"

Who makes you funny?



"Hello Asaig, Shahar Hasson, Katorza, Adir Miller. The girls I wrote to, Rotem Abohav and Anat Magen, make me laugh. Eddie Murphy in his strong days. Dave Shappel also turned around. Seinfeld is too sophisticated for me, does not bring me down. By and large I am hardly a consumer of "American stand-up. The pace of Israeli stand-up is much faster."

Did it bother you that they claimed you were advancing only because you are a brother of peace?



"At first I hardly heard it because Manny Asaig was not an independent entity as a well-known writer in his own right. I was behind the scenes and there was no reason to insult me. In the early years I walked around with zero ego, I carried tools. Only over time did I develop ego. When I set out independently and also started To express yourself politically, so it was a trigger for people on the other side to come down on me. It was always, 'Your brother arranged a job for you,' 'What are you worth without your brother arranging for you. 

"There is a public that loves me very much and knows that Shani Asaig, for God's sake, is today a name in itself that is very popular among dozens of comedians and productions and TV channels.

"Today I choose who to work with, and it's the best place a creator can be. People turn to me a lot, I just do not find enough time to work with everyone, so there are some stand-up shows of well-known guys that I help them, but in a big way right now Right-wing satire is the thing that winks at me the most. "

Asaig is expected in the near future to take command of the production of the satire program "Latma", which is broadcast on Channel 20, to write it together with Tal Gilad and also to direct. 

"Right-wing satire is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I know how to thread messages, like I threaded social messages into the '80s, and sting the other side properly. And I hope it hurts the other side.

"Satire is supposed to hit back without account. You can also put in self-humor and go down here and there on the right side, but the main goal is to make a satire that will expose their face. Of the left. That's what they do in 'Great Country', in 'Back of the Nation'." And elsewhere - using their abilities to convey messages with a lot of venom.

And yes, my first goal is to sting the left. "

In preparation for Yom Kippur, is there anyone who should apologize to you?



"He who needs to know how to reach me personally, if it is terribly important to him. And if it is not important to him, then it is also not important to me. I would like to apologize to all those whom I judged before I knew. Those who came to me unkindly. I am also a sinner Sometimes in stigmas, in prejudices and automatically, and I apologize for that. "

From whom would you like to apologize and you can not?



"From my wonderful parents, peace be upon them. As much as I tried to respect, appreciate and delight them, I still think it was not enough and I could have done more than that because they deserved more than that. I very much hope that my actions and social work, and spreading Torah and tradition, land them up there in kindergarten. Eden".

Source: israelhayom

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