{"id":441592,"date":"2026-05-23T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441592\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:41:12","slug":"fauda-star-netta-garti-on-trauma-war-anxiety-and-life-after-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441592\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauda star Netta Garti on trauma, war anxiety and life after Oct 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long ago, in the mid-1990s, at a Monica Sex concert in the town of Aseret, a 14-year-old girl stood by the stage watching the handsome guitarist Peter Roth. Suddenly, in line with the rural setting\u2019s reputation, a huge green praying mantis landed on Roth\u2019s microphone. The stunned guitarist burst out laughing, and so did the 14-year-old girl (\u201cI looked like I was six\u201d), and their eyes met.<\/p>\n

Years passed before Netta Garti and Peter Roth met again \u2014 a meeting that would turn into a relationship and later parents to two children, Leny, 18, and Arik, 13. Even today, every few weeks Garti likes to go to Monica Sex concerts, stand in the crowd on the guitarist\u2019s side of the stage, and look at him through the eyes of a fan.<\/p>\n

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Netta Garti <\/p>\n

(Photo: Shay Franco)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s an incredible gift,\u201d she says. \u201cIt resets something, brings you back to a very primal place of appreciation. It\u2019s like going back in time \u2014 you\u2019re not thinking about anything at home or what needs to be done, you press a button and I go back to being a 15-year-old girl listening to Monica Sex. He feels something similar when he comes to see me in the theatre. Seeing your partner at their peak is very good for a relationship \u2014 I recommend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while at concerts Garti easily slips into the perspective of an excited fan, in her professional life as an actress reality can sometimes feel too intense. During filming of the new season of Fauda (currently airing on yes and coming to Netflix in August),<\/a> parts of which were shot near Beit Kama in the Gaza border region, the production asked cast and crew to sleep in a nearby kibbutz to save travel time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kibbutzim were still not populated, and I asked the crew if they were managing to sleep at night,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThey said there were such strong booms that they didn\u2019t sleep at all. I told the producer I would just drive back and forth \u2014 if I want to film 12 hours awake, I need to sleep at home and not inside a trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Netta Garti and Peter Roth <\/p>\n

(Photo: Dana Kopel)<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was inside a trigger and we still are. Something in me wasn\u2019t ready yet to process the trauma \u2014 it was too early to contain it. In order to process trauma you need to understand it deeply, and personally I feel that the lack of clear explanations, the lack of a commission of inquiry, not knowing exactly what happened to us \u2014 that healing hasn\u2019t happened. There\u2019s a kind of demon there that feels like there is no logical order in the mind, and when you don\u2019t know what really happened, it traps the trauma. You can\u2019t process it or break it down. That is part of why we are still stuck there. I haven\u2019t managed to get out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, Fauda being on Netflix is one of the most effective ways to bring understanding and bridge gaps \u2014 to explain what we are going through through the heart and the soul, not through logic or rational analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this season is also dominated, at least so far, by a theme of revenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue, but there is also trauma there, and for foreign audiences who are not necessarily sympathetic to us, it can create a deeper understanding. Because it\u2019s the personal story of characters the audience has known for four seasons, and suddenly they experience their break. When you watch television you open emotionally and connect \u2014 it doesn\u2019t pass you by like news or current affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From ‘Fauda’ – Season 5 <\/p>\n

(Photo: Elia Spinopoulos, courtesy of Yes)<\/p>\n

The relationship between Gali and Doron, played by Garti and Lior Raz, has gone through ups and downs over the previous seasons. It is not easy being the wife of Doron Kavillio, a covert operative who sometimes lives more in his work than in his life. Their story is one of ongoing erosion, as Gali tries to maintain a stable home and push Doron to retire, while he remains trapped in the world of operations. In season two their relationship collapses, in season four there is some reconnection, and in the current season \u2014 set two years after October 7<\/a> \u2014 they are reunited again, but Doron is quickly pulled back into action, leaving Gali behind once more.<\/p>\n

As Garti sees it, the role of the woman who stays at home has taken on a broader collective meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more on the other side \u2014 Peter wasn\u2019t in reserve duty \u2014 but Leny enlisted and I experience it through friends as well. The feeling is that you stay at home holding the anxiety and the normality. This is no longer just a story about that one woman \u2014 it is a story about women in Israel, about the weight that remains at home. Those who did not go to fight are left carrying unbearable anxiety about the fate of loved ones, and also trying to maintain sanity and the life we used to know. At the premiere, I felt we are carrying so much baggage that it is impossible to separate what happens on screen from what you are living.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is part of the processing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than anything, I think examining what we went through is critical for everyone. It\u2019s not about right, left, center, religious or secular \u2014 it crosses all categories of society. I can only speak from what I feel and understand, and for me personally I need to understand. Families of the fallen especially need to understand how it happened in order to begin rebuilding this trauma. You cannot repair fractures without understanding where they came from. I struggle to see how a society can rise from something without shape or order.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Turn Left at the End of the World <\/p>\n

(Photo: Courtesy of yes)<\/p>\n

And Leny is now in the army. Where is she stationed?<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s close to home, she comes back every day, everything is fine, I can breathe. But it\u2019s always a milestone at this age. And it\u2019s amazing \u2014 her entire environment, people her age, are very patriotic. I didn\u2019t feel that at their age, we were in completely different times. But COVID, the ongoing war, the trauma \u2014 it probably creates that sense of commitment. They understand on their own skin what it means to live here.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Garti regained some of her free time, she knew exactly how she wanted to fill it. At 46, she now walks daily to Tel Aviv University, where she has been studying film for two years. You might think that 25 years on film, television and theatre sets would teach you everything you need to know about the profession, but Garti wanted to expand.<\/p>\n

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Netta Garti <\/p>\n

(Photo: Amit Naim)<\/p>\n

She first entered Israeli culture with a charming role in Turn Left at the End of the World, continued with an extensive theatre career at Beit Lessin and the Cameri Theatre, is still identified in public as \u201cCookie\u201d from The Arbitrator, and recently also starred in Tom Nesher\u2019s Ophir-winning film Come Closer, based on her brother Ari Nesher.<\/p>\n

Now she studies video editing, cinematography, film history, and tries to communicate with students in their twenties who dream of cinema.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very funny,\u201d she admits. \u201cStudying with such young people is like learning a new language \u2014 especially things connected to technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, it\u2019s cinema \u2014 we watch Godard,\u201d she laughs. \u201cBut yes, things my acting experience doesn\u2019t necessarily prepare you for. I\u2019ve never opened editing software, never held a camera. They mostly see me sitting at the computer almost breaking the screen from frustration because I don\u2019t know how to do the simplest thing. Then they come over and in a second say, \u2018you move this like this and cut it like that.\u2019 And at the same time I read their scripts and give them feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frome ‘Come Closer’ <\/p>\n

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\u201cI will always be an outsider because I\u2019m the age of their parents, but I\u2019ve always felt a bit like that in different places in life. On the outside I cover it in different ways, but inside I know how to feel like an outsider and live with it. I\u2019ve reached an age where I accept it. I don\u2019t fight that part of me anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do they like having a celebrity in class?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are very kind and accepting, but it takes time to build trust \u2014 especially from their side, for them to believe I\u2019m serious and not losing it. It took a while, but once they saw I show up every day and do the work, they understood I wasn\u2019t losing it \u2014 this is really what I want to do. I\u2019m still an actress, and that is something I still dream about, it still beats strongly in me. But my creative side also wants to grow. I want to write, I have aspirations to direct. A director needs to know how to shoot, lenses, editing, lighting. I\u2019m from the old school that believes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Netta Garti <\/p>\n

(Photo: Amit Naim)<\/p>\n

But you come from the field, you know how it really works, and they are still in the innocent fantasy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s nice to be in the fantasy. Sometimes I also catch that hope that everything is still open. As an artist you need that space of innocence and dreaming. And you never really know \u2014 a short film you make in school can suddenly go out into the world. For me it comes from a need for knowledge. Many of my friends my age are going through a kind of awakening, a need to grow, curiosity that suddenly takes over. It\u2019s not as unusual as it sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long ago, in the mid-1990s, at a Monica Sex concert in the town of Aseret, a 14-year-old girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-441592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}