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The combination of Ofira Asaig and Dana Weiss was not supposed to work.
In the end we did not miss Barco
Dana Weiss' long resume had bigger highlights in the world of journalism, but it's hard to remember two more happy and smiling hours in her career.
The two hours in which she replaced Eyal Berkowitz, who was sent to solitary confinement, presented a winning and mostly surprising female team.
Then came the interviewees who brought us back to the harsh reality
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Dana Weiss
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Saturday, 31 October 2020, 08:48
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Instinct means to oppose the whole business in advance.
Dana Weiss on the Eyal Berkowitz standard?
News 12's political commentator would despise her journalistic status in order to fill the place of a former footballer sent to solitary confinement?
Keshet and Avi Nir's hostile takeover of the last ethical principles left for the news company left so few expectations that a senior journalist's move to the entertaining screaming show of "Pira and Barco" should get down her throat so easily?
There are a thousand reasons to oppose Dana Weiss' team alongside Ofira Asaig, who is not supposed to work on paper anyway.
But then something surprising happened, Dana Weiss joined Ofira Asaig's eclectic show for two hours, and it was really nice.
Nice.
no more.
No need to go for exaggerated superlatives and empty compliments.
In Dana Weiss' long professional resume, this evening of folklore on Barco's chair will be no more than a small stop.
Weiss was signed to important scoops, she conducted poignant interviews and conducted weighty panels in the weekend edition of the important and influential television channel in Israel.
Still, nice.
it was really nice.
Even fun.
That's quite a bit given the circumstances.
Around the stormy day, great difficulty and sorrow, but there is something to rejoice about, Ofira and Dana present a relaxed broadcast.
It could be that precisely because we are so used to seeing Weiss in her tighter, more serious and competitive situation, it was suddenly so much fun to see her loose and flowing.
It's not that we've never seen her smile before, to her credit it should never have fallen into the stereotype of the cool, expressionless journalist - but yesterday she smiled more, not as a professional tool, but wholeheartedly.
She had fun, and it passed on to viewers.
it's not taken for granted.
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Attack of smiles.
Ofira and Dana (screenshot)
This was not Ofira and Berkowitz's most exciting show ever.
This is a constant problem in the show that has accustomed the viewer to an exaggerated stimulus threshold on the verge of pornography.
Anything less than a government office that uses vulgar methods of the Sicilian Mafia to threaten one of the presenters on the broadcast, and we might get a little bored.
But while Berkowitz's unique serving style is built on emotions and pulls from the sleeve, Dana Weiss came to work.
Still, a journalist.
Weiss did the minimal research on the guests on the show, and together with Asaig presented not only a masking of shouts and quarrels with the interviewees, but real conversations.
It is doubtful that in the age of instant gratification and ratings anyone would consider continuing the crew of this “weird couple”.
Beyond the popularity of Berkowitz's blatant style and the pearls he brings out of the interviewees, it is doubtful whether Keshet's conservative broadcast schedule (a laundered phrase meaning: "outdated") is due for a show with a completely female panel dealing with burning hourly issues.
About since the mythical "Live Friday" of Merav Michaeli, the Israeli screen has shied away from strong women during strong hours.
For local TV people it is better to fill the screen with photogenic women in the morning, and even then they should talk about recipes and toiletries.
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tinsmith.
Judy (screenshot)
And here yesterday, just before Studio Friday (starring the same Dana Weiss), the relatively light-hearted current affairs program featured serious panels on the purity of the female sex in a completely nonchalant way.
I wish it was so obvious that there was no need to address it, but it is not, so we will address it.
It started with an interview with Judy Shalom Nir Mozes and Nava Boker about the economic and political situation.
The two interviewees have been ridiculed a lot in the past, sometimes rightly so, and the multimillionaire Shalom Nir Mozes' call for a tax boycott sounds populist at best and embarrassing at worst.
It is likely that if Berkowitz had been in the studio, the discourse that began from an explicit call to anarchy would only have deteriorated.
Instead, Weiss and Asaig redirected the conversation to a more important and relevant place.
The interview emphasizes the rift created between the public and the Israeli police, including Weiss' sharpening of the separation that must be made between the police and the police themselves.
It was sensitive and important.
The tears of former MK Nava Boker (a police widow herself) at the end of the interview came from a place of real pain, and this is an angle that is important to present to the public.
Corona committee chairman Yifat Shasha Bitton came to the studio for an open conversation about the day's affairs, and in her unique and refreshing way did not come with a page of messages. This was supposedly the interview we were supposed to miss Eyal Berkovich, but without hurting his dignity, at no point was his absence felt. Shasha Bitton is a dream for every interviewer. She is smart, eloquent and mostly does not shy away from difficult wishes. Berkowitz's presence would probably have made her tighter, more defensive, while the combination of Weiss and Asaig managed to soften Shasha Bitton until she revealed almost all the political cards She came in small and talked about her dream of becoming Minister of Education, and her political opponents, probably within the Likud, were probably much more frightened by this minimalist statement than if she had been crowned the next prime minister by Berkowitz.
Is not aware.
Eliraz (screenshot)
Most of the interviewees were still men, as if there was another choice.
There was the outgoing corona projector Roni Gamzo in a long and matter-of-fact interview, MK Eli Avidar and other political discussions with Barak Sri and Eldad Yaniv, as well as a completely unnecessary visit by Eliraz Sadeh on the bibist standard, which gave the prime minister a score of 8.5 on the Corona crisis. (This is after he was forced to close a store following the crisis, which is probably why he did not give His Majesty a score of 10).
But Weiss and Asaig's crew shone in the "softer" places, which is why the program exists.
This was especially noticeable in an interview with Mickey Kam and Rebecca Michaeli.
Two women who, if they were born in California or London, would become millionaires with huge estates, sharing several Oscar statuettes.
Instead, they were born in Israel, and became part of it, and of us.
This is not a cliché if it is true.
Corona or not Corona, Rebecca and Mickey can not turn off their talent for a moment.
Their magic dripped from the screen and the waves of laughter in the studio were completely authentic.
The two came to promote The Order of the Hour, the Nacht family's philanthropic music venture, which helped scatter some livelihoods for dozens of Corona-era artists - but the women in the studio seem to have talked about almost everything except the charming musical project.
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Men Men Men.
Avidar (screenshot)
Even in Barko's absence, it was a classic "Ofira and Berkowitz" conversation, moving between a variety of topics with the stream of consciousness of the facilitators.
In the studio sat four women who talked about the Adi Beatty storm, Rabin's legacy, the next season of "Stisl", the relationship between Miki Kam and Yehuda Adar, the injustice done to active adults during the Corona period and of course the political situation - while promoting Keshet programs like Ning Israel and playful explanations and complaints about the temperature in the studio.
The conversation was smiling and saturated with laughter, including an unexpected homage by Rivka Michaeli to the well-publicized quarrel of Miri Regev and Eyal Berkovich.
We would not expect them at least.
Still, the humorous conversation stood in the gloomy shadow of the plight of the cultural world.
The two did not come to whine or get angry, but it is clear that they must address the systematic, and almost sadistic, neglect of the local entertainment industry by the government.
Rebekah Michaeli, 82, who saw this country being established and going through all the possible wars and disasters, and no traffic light model is going to imprison it at home and stop creating even today, expressed the situation well when she concluded in sharp language: "I promise all politicians that the songs will be heard. "That voice will remain. And them? They did not know who they were for a few more years."
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