Ha'Nephilim


Ha'Nephilim is a television programme which was broadcast on Yes written by Ruby Doanias and Chen Kliman. It is named after the biblical Nephilim, who are referred to in the show. The second season was broadcast on the Israeli Kids Channel.

Promotion

Before the show was premiered on Yes Israeli, it was advertised online using teasers, that requested the public's help in finding a missing teenager, Zuri Barlev. Visitors who clicked the banner, arrived to a website stating Zuri is missing, and that assistance of the public is requested. In addition, a blog and a website were opened by an account with the same name, to add more features to the promotion. The comments about the promotion were mostly negative, stating this way of promotion is highly unwanted due to its danger of confusing the public.

Plot

The story tells about Zuri Barlev, who moves with his father, who was fired from the ministry of education, to a city in the southern part of Israel called the NRV, where technology is much more sophisticated than everyday technology. NRV residents have different colored tags, going from blue to green and red - the highest level, only given to administrators and researchers. The village was started during Moshe Dayan's years, when Dayan and Noah's father found a portal in the Negev, and began researching it. Before Noah's father died, he gave a special "key" to his son, and told him to hold onto it, because it is the world's only surviving artifact from the Earth's first years.
Zuri afterwards discovers that some NRV residents had a relative, who died two months before they moved in. Afterwards, he and his friends discover it was Noah who killed these people, in order to bring them to the NRV. Some time later, Zuri arrives to the "-5" floor, where he finds the portal, enters it, and discovers the spaceship. The spaceship contains a dangerous combination of various gases, which cause people to go insane and lose control of their actions, but it somehow has no effect on Zuri. Later on, he discovers that the alien owners of that spaceship, used to throw their criminals onto our "jail" planet using the portal. However, the special alignment and ingredients of the atmosphere, caused the criminals to obtain "super-powers". Therefore the locals called them "Ha'Nephilim" – "The Outsiders".
Several days later, Zuri discovers he is one of them, when the computer's hologram, a female "human", shows him a video recording of the past spaceship commander. Some time later, he enters the spaceship with Noah, which disables the force field, set by the previous commander, to stop other "unique people" from using their abilities. Noah succeeds, and suddenly a lot of people discover their abilities, ranging from freezing, controlling people and putting them to sleep through dreams, to super-speed, super-strength, super-stretch, duplicating, starting fires by mere thought, and more. Due to this, a person named Assaf, which discovered his abilities as super-strength and shield creation, teams up with Noah to find the other outsiders and take control of the spaceship, as it can control the entire planet it's facing.

Character histories