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M usician Leonard Cohen’s
momentous trip to the Sinai
Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers
in the wake of the Yom Kippur War
is being turned into a dramatized TV
series. “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the
Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan
Indursky, a co-creator of “Shtisel,”
the landmark Israeli drama about
an Orthodox family in Jerusalem,
according to Variety.

The limited series, an adaptation
of journalist Matti Friedman’s 2022
book of the same name, will film in
Israel in 2024. It’s being co-produced
by Keshet, the Israeli company that
has also produced shows such as
“Prisoners of War,” which was adapted
for U.S. audiences as “Homeland.”
The singer-songwriter’s trip to the
frontlines of the 1973 war became
a turning point in the way the
folk troubadour incorporated his
Jewishness into his songs — for
instance, his 1974 album “New Skin
for the Old Ceremony” featured
“Who by Fire,” a song inspired by
the Yom Kippur “Unataneh Tokef”
prayer. Despite being internation-
ally famous, Cohen slept in an army
sleeping bag, ate army rations and
performed a series of concerts for
on-edge soldiers, who decades later
told Friedman that they were moved
by his support.

Leonard Cohen performs in Hamburg, Germany on May 4, 1970.

“In October 1973, the poet and
singer Leonard Cohen — 39 years
old, famous, unhappy and at a cre-
ative dead end — traveled to the
Sinai Desert and inserted himself
into the chaos and blood of the Yom
Kippur War,” according to the show’s
press materials. “Moving around the
front with a guitar and a pick-up
team of local musicians, Cohen dived
headlong into a global crisis and
met hundreds of fighting men and
women at the worst moment of their
lives. Cohen’s audience knew his
songs might be the last thing they
heard, and those who survived never
forgot the experience.”
— Gabe Friedman
Gunter Zint/1970 K& K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns/Getty Images
1973 Yom Kippur War Concerts
to be Dramatized in TV Series by
‘Shtisel’ Writer
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