Delet Haksamim (, lit. "''The magic door''") is an Israeli educational children's television program which deals with

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intended for its main target audience, primary school students. It was produced by the Israeli Film Service and co-product Israel's

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and

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and written

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and Yitzhak Ben Ner. The program was aired in 1974 on the

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(IETV), since aired in reruns at the 1980s.

Background

The program follows after a magician called Yehoyakim Kook (

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), who taught two siblings, Yoav and Hagar Bergman about road safety through a door to beep each time when someone has non-observance of the road safety laws. Then he is summons and shows them through a magical eye how they misdeeds to be finished with disaster. Usually each episode the siblings getting on the nervous of old pharmacist Dr. Tuvia Guttman ( Mordechai Ben-Ze'ev) and then sent his assistant, Hertzel (

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) out of his store to chase them due to different problems.

External links

* Israeli children's television series Black-and-white television shows Israeli Educational Television 1974 Israeli television series debuts 1970s Israeli television series Words and phrases in Modern Hebrew {{Israel-tv-stub