When we were students, then in high school, we all sat like good kids and learned lesson after lesson – math, language, literature and the list goes on. As we grew up, most of us looked back on our 12 years of schooling and pondered the issues that might be a pity they didn’t get another hour in the system and prepared us for real life. The new series of Here 11, “Zero Hour,” is exactly that lesson we needed, hoping it’s not too late. Watch the trailer of “Zero Hour”, here 11:
Let’s start with the summary of events: the series focuses on the “explosion” between a teacher (Doron Ben David) and a student during a citizenship class that puts on the discussion table the issue that will forever remain relevant, racism. The different worldviews, within the stubborn youthful revolt of the student Lian Zarchi (starring Mia Landsman who has already become the face of here 11), become a kind of snowball with devastating results. Both on their personal world and on the entire Israeli reality.
If the story sounds familiar to you, remember an incident that took place in 2014, when a citizenship teacher named Adam Verta was fired from his job at the ORT network after his student, Sapir Sabah, complained against him for expressing his leftist views. But as they say, any connection between the characters and reality is absolutely coincidental.
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The first episode, which aired yesterday (Monday) at 9:15 p.m., provided a platform for political and social views from both sides of the spectrum, and mostly made me realize that this is not what, but how. At the beginning of the episode student Liane got into a minor argument with a language teacher, which led her to engage in a social problem of her choice. Out of contempt for the teacher’s attempt to get her out of the pit she ran into, Liane threw in the air the matter of “the Arabs in the pool harassing young Jewish girls.” This charged issue, with regard to the positions of most of the students in the class, led to a heated debate between the left-wing teacher representing the old generation, and the right-wing Z generation.
Although the author of the series, Dikla Keidar, chose to deal with a rather specific situation, it seems that “Zero Hour” is beyond another conversation about racism or human love, it is the lesson we have never been taught.
After watching the episode I fell silent for a second, definitely a lot to digest. I felt like I wish I was a 17 or 18 year old girl and I would have been privileged to have such a broad perspective on worldviews. Although in my eyes the creators of the series have chosen to put the right in an incendiary and fixed light, while the left is liberal and open, the choice of which side to choose belongs solely to the viewers. This drama series, which was apparently designed to reach an adult audience, is generally a clever and fascinating youth series that I have no shadow of a doubt that can open the minds of students, who are used to hearing about probability problems or grammar rules.
“Zero Hour” was shaky for me. And I want to believe that she will move something in her heart to everyone who watches her. This is a series that makes the viewer understand what his worldview is. Where I place myself on this broad scale called living. Although the series deals mainly with areas such as racism, divorce or love, in practice it is a mirror of each and every one of us about us as human beings. When does the difference between us stop and where does the respect begin. Having seen this episode, and it’s just the first on the list, I want to believe that people will look inside and see how they can be better.
And in this optimistic tone – in the Israel of 2022, when the social divide and division is only deepening, I hope we learn to spread morality and love. That we know how to set boundaries, but also allow true freedom of expression devoid of any violence and evil intentions. The language teacher said at the beginning of the chapter, and rightly so, “What we have to say is important. But much more important is how.”
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