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Anat Zeltzer and Modi Bar-On first met in the hallways of Israeli Educational Television on the youth magazine show Hakol Patuach ("Everything is Open"). There, while filming a special episode on Theodor Herzl's visit to the Land of Israel, they discovered not only a shared passion for local history, but also an artistic language that allowed them to bring that passion to the screen.
This encounter launched an extraordinary creative partnership that spanned nearly a quarter of a century. Together, they produced an extensive body of work combining in-depth documentary storytelling with an intelligent, accessible approach. The duo created several milestone series on Israeli television, including Hakol Anashim ("It's All People"), which became a staple in the education system; In the Land of the Jews, an Academy Award-winning series tracing the history of local humor and entertainment; as well as Tel Aviv-Yafo, The Kibbutz, Route 90, Just One More Story, and Homeland Lesson.
Through their collaboration, they succeeded in deconstructing and rebuilding Israeli myths, bridging archival history with reality, and connecting the personal to the national.
Modi Bar-On passed away in 2022.
Just One More Story
100 Years of Hebrew Children's Literature
Something of the magic every parent feels when sharing the classics they grew up on with their child infuses this sweet series, with moments moving enough to bring a tear to the eye. It makes you want to finish watching and sit down to read a good book together.
Highway 90
A journey along the country's longest road
The new series by Anat Zeltser and Modi Bar-On documents a journey along Highway 90 and through Israel's most neglected periphery. While its critique may be a bit soft, it still delivers a compelling mix of rage and delight.
Secularism
A series grappling with the complexities and paradoxes of secularism in Israel and the fluidity of secular identity
The series courageously and thoroughly illuminates unexpected places. Even if it does not bridge the divide between camps, it serves as an insightful document of crucial, urgent social developments.
The series documents the immense influence the bold kibbutz experiment had on Israeli society as a whole, as well as on the psyche and lifestyle of those who participated in it. On the surface, it is a story of a dream and its disillusionment; however, the dream was a harsh and demanding reality, and the disillusionment serves as an opening for new growth and new dreams. Read more > 
The city with a hyphen at its heart. How Tel Aviv was born out of Jaffa, yet convinced itself it was born from the sands. How it adopted the image of the "White City" and how it confronted the "black and gray" city that developed in the shadows of that image. The series follows the city’s trajectory of development—from Jaffa northward across the Yarkon River, and then back to the city center, reviving it as a coveted real estate treasure. Read more > 
What is it about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that prevents it from ending? Is what happened between us truly so unforgivable and insoluble? These are the questions "Homeland Lesson" seeks to answer. The series returns to the roots of the conflict, retracing the collision course that led from the Balfour Declaration (the "deal of the century" of its time) to the war that shaped and fixed the conflict to this day—the 1948 War. Read more > 
