In Israel, laity and religious clash over a satirical series

Correspondent in Jerusalem

Moses presents the Tablets of the Law to his people at the foot of Mount Sinai. His sister, Myriam, is surprised that there is no condemnation of rape in the Ten Commandments. The prophet then adds an eleventh to the chagrin of his tribe. “No rape? Why? Even though she's unconscious? Even though she's dead? ” , ask the men. Full of Biblical references and inspired by Monty Python, the satirical series The Jews are comingplays the card of transgression without too much subtlety. It traces in an irreverent fashion marked by pop culture, the history of the Jewish people, from the exit of Egypt to the occupation of the West Bank, from the Burning Bush to Hitler, from Abraham to Adolf Eichmann. His detailed references to the Torah have earned him the use of teaching material for Israeli high school teachers in search of engaging videos. But the hit program of the Kan television channel is not, but then not at all, to the taste of the religious.

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