Fauda Season 5 Sets September 8 Netflix Premiere with Rewritten Story Centred on October 7

Netflix will premiere the fifth season of Fauda on September 8, 2026, with the Israeli espionage thriller returning for an eleven-episode run that places the October 7, 2023 attack at the centre of its story (Deadline).

The season is set two years after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Lead star Lior Raz returns as Doron Kavillio, a veteran operative in Israel's undercover counter-terror unit, racing alongside fellow fighters to stop a catastrophic attack on Israel while haunted by the trauma of October 7.

The path to this season was not the one originally planned. Raz and co-creator Avi Issacharoff, who first launched Fauda out of their own experiences in Israeli military units, scrapped their initial Season 5 scripts following the October 7 attack and rewrote the season with that event as its anchor (Deadline). Issacharoff, who serves as co-creator, writer and executive producer, acknowledged the weight of dramatising recent history: "This is a TV show, not reality. But we thought that there is still a story here to be told."

The show's renewal itself came as a surprise. Deadline confirmed in September 2023 that Fauda — which had been expected to end with its fourth season — was coming back for a fifth (Deadline).

Season 5 broadens the cast beyond its Israeli core. French actress Mélanie Laurent joins as Anne Aubert, and Hakim Djaziri plays Saïd Al-Khatibi. Returning series regulars include Yaakov Zada Daniel and Doron Ben-David alongside Raz (Deadline).

Omri Givon directs, with a writers' room that includes Issacharoff, Raz, Omri Shenhar, Sari Azoulay Turgeman, Yona Rozenkier and Nir Berger. The season was filmed across Israel and Hungary, with Liat Benasuly producing. Yes TV — the Israeli network that originally commissioned Fauda — and L. Benasuly Productions are co-producers, and Yes Studios handles international distribution. Netflix has carried all seasons of the series globally, debuting each after its first-run broadcast on Yes.

For a series whose title means "chaos" in Arabic, the decision to build its fifth season around an event as raw and recent as October 7 carries a particular kind of weight. The show has always drawn from real geopolitical flashpoints; this time, the flashpoint was one the creators lived through while writing.

Deadline also published first-look images from the new season alongside the release date announcement (Deadline).