Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol

Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Daniel Lappin
Written by	Daniel Lappin Ofer Knispel Haim Idisis Amit Lior Gaya Wildman
Starring	Avi Kushnir Anat Waxman Idan Alterman Yael Leventhal Motti Katz Nurit Cohen Shlomo Vishinsky Florence Bloch (seasons 4–present) Lilian Berto (seasons 5–present) Avigail Lappin (seasons 5–present) Yuval Segal (seasons 5–6) Roni Herman (seasons 9–present)
Opening theme	"Send Me on My Way" by Rusted Root
Country of origin	Israel
Original language(s)	Hebrew
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	149
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	JCS Productions
Release
Original network	Channel 2 (Telad) (seasons 1–4), (Reshet) (seasons 5–present)
Original release	July 2, 2001 – September 20, 2011
External links
Website
Production website

Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol (Hebrew: החיים זה לא הכל‎‎; lit. Life is Not All) is a sitcom on Israeli television. The show ran on Channel 2.

With 9 seasons in the course of 10 years, It is the longest-running israeli sitcom to date in terms of number of seasons, though not in number of episodes.

Important Figures

• Gadi Neuman (Avi Kushnir) - 38 years old, a writer of Benny Knobler's comedy talk show, Married to Dafna, divorced her and returned to her in the last episode of the series, the father of Michal.
• Dafna Ringel (Anat Waxman) - 36 years old, was married to Gadi and Divorced him in season 4, studies communication throughout most of the seasons, in Season 9 she is a doctor of communication.
• Mickey Bernstein (Idan Alterman) - 28 years old, friend of Gadi, Orly's partner, marries her at the end of Season 3.
• Batya Neuman (Nurit Cohen) - Mother of Gadi, married to Meir, not satisfied with life, always hopes that Gadi and Dafna will marry each other again.
• Meir Neuman (Shlomo Vishinski) - father of Gadi. Married to Batya, loves discoveries and science.
• Orly Bernstein (Yael Leventhal) - married to Mickey, Absurd and decisive woman, in season 9 she's a hygienist.
• Benny Knobler (Motti Katz) - A television talk show host, Married to Doris, became the channel CEO at the end of the series, conniving, hurtful and rude.
• Doris Knobler (Florence Bloch) - A woman who marries Benny in season 4, and shares a similar rude pattern of behavior like his.
• Michal Zilberman (Lilian Barreto) - Gadi's life partner through seasons 5-7, Mother of Noa Zilberman.
• Noa Zilberman (Avigail Lappin) - The daughter of Michal, she's a manipulative teenager who tends to blackmail people for her own needs.

Minor characters

• Ehud Tal (Yuval Segal) - Dafna's boyfriend in seasons 5-7.
• Big Mickey (Dvir Benedek) - A boyfriend of Orly throughout season 7, almost married her before she reunited with Mickey, Loves Orly and lets the two live in his apartment because of his affection for her, but still he is always rejected by her.
• Michal Neuman (Ronnie Herman) - Gadi and Dafna's daughter, born in the second season finale, First seen as a grown child in season 9.

External links

• Official website (Hebrew)
• Ha-Chaim Ze Lo Hacol at the Internet Movie Database