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Inyan Shel Zman () or ''A Matter of Time'' is an Israeli
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broadcast from 1992 until 1996 on
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. The series focused on stories of
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students in
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and talked about issues of adolescents such as school,
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, love, drafting to the army, social gaps, rape, violence and more. The series would focus in each episode on various secondary characters and show their world and their problems, in addition to the central plot which evolved around the main characters. The series was directed by Yael Graph and Shirley Stern, and written by Ronit Weiss Berkowitz and Eyal Graph. The theme song to the series was written by
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, composed by
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and performed by
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. In the years 1998-1999 a
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to the series was produced called " Esrim plus". The show ran for 2 seasons. In 2010
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announced a continuation of the series would be produced.. The revived show, which premiered in 2012 under the same name, revisits many of the characters from the original series, 20 years later. This show ran for one season consisting of 13 episodes.


Cast and characters

* Ido Markovich () ( Moshe Ben-Basat) - Weizmann's best friend. A handsome and charming guy who was the boyfriend of quite a few girls in the class (among them are Dana, Sharon and Omer). * Yehezkel Weizman() ( Shai Kapon) - Ido's best friend. His mother lives overseas and left him alone to live in Israel. * Dana () ( Dana Berger) - A mischievous, gossipy and somewhat flamboyant girl. Sharon's best friend in seasons 1-2 and Gali's in seasons 3-4. Later, the girlfriend of Dean who turns out to be a drug dealer and lets her try them. As a result, she becomes addicted and her condition worsens. Aviv is in love with her. * Sharon Cohen () ( Sharon Haziz) - Ido Markovich's good friend * Noga Caspi () (
Ayelet Zurer Ayelet Zurer (; born ) is an Israeli TV and film actress. She began her career on the Israeli teen drama '' Inyan Shel Zman'' and has starred in numerous Israeli TV and film roles. She received awards for Best Actress at the Israeli Academy Awa ...
) - A
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bish teenager. She is very smart and often gets good grades. * Gali () ( Esti Yerushalmi) - A teenager without confidence and a good friend of Noga * Tomer Ben-David () ( Uri Banai) - A good boy from a poor family who had to fight the social gap. He came from Sharon's neighborhood "Neve Yigal". * Matti Harel () ( Amit Lior) - The
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teacher. He is very strict, but cares a lot about his students outside of class. * Menashe Gabay () ( Amikam Levi) - A grumpy and boring
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teacher * Fogel () - The school principal, an
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* Aviv () (
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) - A slightly unusual boy, sensitive and rebellious, in love with Dana and used to give her strange gifts, such as a
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and turtle food. * Alon () ( Uri Gottlieb) - A sensitive boy, desperately in love with Noga. Suffers from a problem in his heart and because of it finds it difficult to enlist in the combat force as he wanted. * Saar () ( Saar Badishi) - A sensitive musician who came to school after his friend was injured in a car accident and became unresponsive. Later befriends Sarit. * Sarit Ochayun () ( Galit Giat) - A confident student who comes from an adoptive family. Later in the series she becomes Saar's girlfriend. She refused to receive a Bible because of the
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by a religious man. * Dean Bernstein () ( Eran Advir) - Joins the class at the beginning of the third season as a resident returning from England. A boy with a tendency to delinquency who later turns out to be a drug dealer. When he was Dana's boyfriend, he tempted her to try drugs and caused her to become addicted to them and as a result her condition worsened. * Dafna () ( Michal Kapata) - The school ''beauty queen'', she is rich and spoiled * Michal () ( Hagit Shamli) - Weizman's girlfriend, whom he calls " Mufletta". A clothes designer. She tends to fight with her little sister who suffers from mild mental retardation. * Omer Pikovski () ( Neta Sobol) - A quiet and shy girl, who experienced mental and physical abuse from her mother. She befriends Dean and Sarit and later falls in love with Ido. * Itay Katz () ( Yaron Motola) - A student who returned from the
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at the beginning of the second season and befriended his classmate Alexandra, who immigrated from Russia. Itay suspected for a certain period that he had homosexual tendencies, but finally decided that he did not have such tendencies. Later he became the boyfriend of Keren. * Lior () ( Lior Halfon) - Dafna's boyfriend. * Yaron Segal () (
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) - A rebellious, intelligent student who moved from every class in the grade and slowly integrates into the class focused on in the series, is in love with Noga. His friend from
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has AIDS. * Nir Benbenisti () (Nir Friedman) - A student who's a fan of metal music and comes to school wearing shirts of rock and metal bands. He falls in love with Liora, the new librarian. * Doron () ( Mark Ivanir) - Drama teacher * Keren Amiel () ( Merav Shoa) * Aviv's brother () ( Oded Menashe) - In seasons 1


External links


Inyan Shel Zman - All Seasons
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