Published: 3 August 2020
Last updated: 5 March 2024
IN ONE OF THE dramatic scenes in the 2013 mini-series Operation Typhoon, which tells the story of a group of Soviet combat soldiers fighting the Nazis, the unit’s paramedic is forced to treat a bleeding female soldier who is wounded by a bullet that penetrates her shoulder.
A moment before the paramedic exposes her shoulder in order to remove the bullet, a warning bubble suddenly pops up on the TV screen: “Paramedic treats a woman with a shoulder wound.”
In the pop-up window is a "Skip" button that can be pushed so that the pious Jewish viewer can refrain from viewing the scene – for reasons of modesty.
This feature will soon be available on a new platform for video streaming in Israel called Tov (Good) – a kind of “kosher" Netflix that will offer censored content for religiously observant Jews.
The content is censored to various degrees, according to the piety/modesty preferences of the viewer. Occasionally during the course of a scene a small warning text will pop up – offering a choice of whether or not to watch what is about to come.
(Jewish religious law forbids men to hear and/or see women singing, to see them dressed revealingly and so on, due to reasons of modesty.)
FULL STORY Press to skip the immodest women: 'Kosher Netflix' launches in Israel (Haaretz)
Photo: A scene from Tzini Baribua, due to be streamed by Tov. The pop-up message warns of "women humming and dancing" – which the viewer can opt to skip (TOV.tv)
