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Shot during a span of 3 years, Ichilov portrays the lives of 5 residents as they make their transition to become Attendings. This is at a time when the theories they have learned at the School of Medicine begin to clash with the intense reality of human pain. The series presents a intense and uncompromising documentation of the medical dramas, the professional conflicts, the pressures at home, and the pursuit of love and compession.
DIRECTOR / Adi Barash & Ruthie Shatz
ICHILOV S1
YEAR / 2011-12
EPISODES / 5
ICHILOV S2
YEAR / 2016-17
EPISODES / 6
REVIEWS SEASON 1
Brilliant, unflinching realism.
TIME OUT
Ichilov is a powerful show because of the density and fragility it describes real life and the most powerful manner.
HAARETZ
The Brilliant Shatz and Barash are loyal to the truth while giving the doctors the dignity they deserve.
YEDIOT
If someone must watch it, I would say: Please Miss minister of health — watch it and change the reform at last Ichilov TV show has some ideas for you!.
YEDIOT
REVIEWS SEASON 2
Letting the cameras into the operating room lends the documentary authenticity and integrity…
not something you often encounter on Prime Time Channel 2.
YEDIOT
…and perhaps no less important is the accolades the filmmakers of “Ichilov” deserve for placing trust in their viewers; for choosing not to spoon-feed us the content or to assail us with bombastic statements, but to leave the task of gathering and deciphering to the intelligent viewers, so we can understand for ourselves how meaningful these people’s job is, how overwhelming and ungrateful.
YEDIOT
Shatz and Barash don’t leverage the rare accesses granted to them to create tear-jerkers or peep shows. Among the many means at their disposal, they use a minimum of meaningless effects.
The medical staff doesn’t look as though they were taken out of a glossy brochure, granting authentic and emotional insight into the dilemmas that arise from their work.
YNET
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