Eight hours Eti Alon, unassuming mother of two, waits at the police station in 2002 Israel to turn herself in. The bank employee claims to have embezzled more than $100 million in customer funds to pay off her gambling-addicted brother's debts. Money that mostly illegal casinos used to help raise a new generation of criminals who would soon engage in bitter power struggles. An incredible true story.
"True crime" is a genre that has fallen comparatively short in Israel. That should change with the success of "Embazzlement," in which documentary filmmaker Yotam Guendelmann takes on a sensational case in recent Israeli criminal history. Led by the impressively performing Dana Ivgy and with the slick look now typical of Israeli series, the seven-part nailbiter may already be counted among the year's great series discoveries.