‘Fauda’ & ‘Tehran’ Co-Creators Detail How They Are Helping Israeli Relief Efforts As Ted Sarandos Pays Tribute To Sound Tech Who Was Victim Of Attack

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The co-creators of Fauda and Tehran have detailed how they are helping the relief efforts as Ted Sarandos pays tribute to Lior Weitzman, a sound technician on Netflix’s first Hebrew-language original series, who was killed on Saturday during the Hamas-led attack on Israel. “A lot of folks are still reeling from this horrific terrorist attack from Hamas,” said Netflix co-CEO Sarandos at the top of an on-stage talk with Bloomberg. “Many of us have probably lost friends and family.

At Netflix, one of the victims, Lior Weitzman, was working on our first Netflix original series there, called Bros.” On Saturday morning, an unsuspecting Weitzman went out cycling, before the attack began.

A short while later he texted his wife to say there had been a shooting. “That is the last we heard from him, as he was a victim of that terrorist attack,” said Sarandos. “It’s a horrific thing that has happened in the world and I just want to say our hearts are out to Lior’s family, and to anyone else who may have lost someone in Israel.” Weitzman had a stellar CV, working on Apple TV+’s spy series Tehran among other shows.

Key production figures in the country have paid tribute to the sound tech, who was most recently working on Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon’s TV drama Bros. “Lior was just 32 years old, and a really sweet guy,” Tehran co-creator Daniel Syrkin told Deadline. “Our colleague has died and we are devastated.