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See the full story · 3 sourcesIt’s a Date!
In honor of Tu Be’Av, the Jewish calendar’s version of Valentine’s Day, a bunch of us were in the office, sitting around our beautiful pine-wood table and talking about dates: Unusually awkward ones, surprisingly good ones, total catastrophes and blissful delights. As the conversation went on, we were reminded of what we all intuitively know – that dates are, and will forever be, fine fodder for stories. So set the table – we have a full menu of stories of (very!) Israeli dates. As a prologue, we decided to host a blind date in our studio. But who, in their right mind, would subject themselves to a date that's not only watched by half our staff, but also recorded for posterity? In act one, Hagar Yanai and Eran Ben Yaakov choose to reinvent the familiar plot structure of dating, mating and procreating. With true love – and what might seem like a bit of genetic science fiction – their family is proof that writing one’s own romance need not remain solely in the realm of fantasy.