The photo that opens "Jesus and His Joy" shows Aki Avni standing frozen in front of an IDF medical committee.
Because Lucky Avni has no hands.
It's mesmerizing and intriguing and puzzling, because not every day Lucky Stones has no hands.
And although the interruption is not the main story, and the effect is computerized, it is still impossible to ignore the special and perhaps most amazing frame seen on Israeli television.
Avni plays a war hero who is wounded in battle, an over-poisoned officer who rolls into the role of Chief Military Rabbi.
The appointment means joining the military rabbinate base to command a unit of low-profile soldiers, at the forefront of which is the military rabbinate choir led by Cantor Natan Datner.
"Jesus and His Joy," whose premiere episode aired last night (Monday) here 11, is a series without God about God's messengers in the IDF, which was given a free hand to go on a rampage. Choosing rice and washing bodies and dealing with ego, disability and keeping in touch.
From the point of view of religious soldiers, it presents a different IDF, flooding with strange plots and subversive criticism in an extraordinary military environment. 20 years.
But with a hand on heart, in a country that so sanctifies militancy, it seems that it is precisely the anomalies of "Jesus and rejoice" that may be at its core.
To captivate viewers you need a lot more maki stones without hands.
"Jesus and be glad", here 11
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