The next time someone throws you the sentence "Give me a recommendation for a good series," throw it back to him "Look at the trap for a lawyer at the National Library" - the name I gave to the three-episode docu created by Ayala Hasson.
Series like "Manich" and "FMTA" revealed to us how in the holy of holies of the law and justice systems cases are sewn, charges are unleashed and people are held "in the throat." The reality is that the star of the story is the one who headed the system that exposes such conspiracies, former State Attorney Shai Nitzan.
This is a seemingly small story, a chamber at its core, about the appointment of a library director who develops in unexpected directions and reveals the bookworm of the field of auction sewing - how a prestigious position that the entire academic literature world looks up to can be tailored to the only candidate who sat "dozens of hours" for an interview .
The fact that this is a true story only gets more annoying (assuming a privilege is unfamiliar to you).
A library has always been a quiet and boring place, until all the elements of a good story for a docu-series came to it as well: inventing a role and puzzling recruitment of candidates, tailoring a tender to the talents of one talented man, and suspecting a sore throat around silenced sexual harassment.
Without spoilers, we will find that the first chapter dealt with telling us what the National Library is, and how a public body juggles hundreds of millions of shekels a year from the money of each of us, and from donors whose literary treasure of the Jewish people is important to them. Content ", on the all jobs website and in other puzzling places, and chooses a unique individual without a professional background and previous skills for the job.
Ayala Hasson's research,
"Where Shai Nitzan comes from, it has long been suspected that the tender was tailor-made," says Hasson to David Bloomberg, the powerful man and chairman of the board of the National Library, who led the move. Others, and how such a senior role is advertised under a puzzling title by all accounts, Bloomberg provides evasive, stuttering, and arrogant answers.
The second chapter brought further responses from senior members of the library, which reinforces the perplexity surrounding Nitzan's choice over seemingly more worthy candidates, and drew questions in the discussion in the studio that followed, already hinting at the possibility that it was important for someone to name Nitzan.
In the third episode, which came only last Friday, an intriguing twist appears in the plot, and suddenly a story unfolds around the silencing of sexual harassment, paid for by the same Bloomberg, with his former employee.
We know former State Attorney Shai Nitzan from that famous quote from Spokesman Mandelblit "He holds me in the throat of this maniac" and from countless cases in which the figure of a sophisticated, controversial person with unlimited legal power arises. Hasson probably did not expect the third chapter In the sexual harassment silenced with money, by the same Bloomberg - will emerge two weeks after the interrogation with suspicion of another throat of a senior who is reinforced in our districts by the justice system.
It is worth noting that the controversy that the appointment provoked among many elements in the library over the fact that Nitzan lacks any professional background for the position - was published by Amar Lachmanovich in "Israel Today".
Hasson's investigation explained how apparently everything actually happened.
Those who have not yet seen, can throw a bag of popcorn into the microwave and imagine how the academic and legal elites are fed up with budgetary pensions seemingly taking care of their best sons the day after their retirement.
Just be careful that during one of the episodes one of the corn kernels that has not cracked will not get stuck in your throat.
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