Leonard Cohen’s visit to the Yom Kippur War frontlines in 1973 will be dramatised in a new limited television series from Keshet International and Sixty-Six Media. Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai is adapted from Matti Friedman’s book of the same name, which describes Cohen’s 1973 performance on the battlefield.

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The executive producer of the show will be Jill Offman of Sixty-Six Media, who presented Keshet with the idea. The Israeli television series’ plot will be written by Yehonatan Indursky (Shtisel), and filming will start in 2024.

Who was Leonard Cohen?

Leonard Cohen was born on September 21, 1934, into a middle-class Canadian Jewish family in Westmount, Quebec. His father, Nathan Cohen, died when Cohen was nine years old, and his mother was Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky. Cohen wrote poetry and learned how to play the guitar while studying at Westmount High School. He went to McGill University to study. He never wed but had two kids with his lover Suzanne Elrod: Adam and Lorca.

Additionally, he shared close relationships with Janis Joplin, Rebecca De Mornay, and Marianne Ihlen. Cohen passed away on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82, in his Los Angeles home from complications related to a fall and leukaemia.

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian singer-songwriter began his writing career as a poet and writer. He didn’t begin his musical career until he was 33 years old, in 1967. Three more folk albums by Leonard Cohen—Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971), and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1973)—were released after his debut (1974).

Phil Spector co-wrote and produced his album Death of a Ladies’ Man, which was released in 1977. The musician made a comeback in 1979 with the more conventional Recent Songs, which fused his acoustic approach with jazz and elements from the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The song Hallelujah debuted in 1984 on Leonard Cohen’s studio album Various Positions. The piece that made Cohen famous was this. Cohen’s most well-known album, I’m Your Man, featuring the song Everybody Knows, was released in 1988.

Ten New Songs, released by Cohen in 2001 and a huge success in Canada and Europe, marked his comeback to the music industry. In 2004, his eleventh album, Dear Heather, was released. Following a series of lucrative tours from 2008 to 2010, Cohen released three albums in the final four years of his life: You Want It Darker (2016), which was released three weeks before his passing, Old Ideas (2012), and Popular Problems (2014).