From its storyline to its searing soundtrack, season five of “Fauda” is indelibly shaped by the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught on southern Israel.

The music, composed by Gilad Benamram and featuring vocalist Marina Maximilian, reflects the past three traumatic years, with track names such as “Like a Dream,” “Pray,” “Dance Again,” “Ten Seven,” “I Will Wait for You” and “Never Forget.”

The new season, which premiered worldwide on Netflix on Tuesday, was rewritten by creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz after the massacre and ensuing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Inevitably, it was influenced by what the writers, cast and crew experienced.

Later episodes were based directly on the events of October 7, 2023, during which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel and slaughtered some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 251 to the Gaza Strip.

Benamram, who has scored all five seasons of “Fauda,” told The Times of Israel that he was aware that he was composing the new music in a world irrevocably shaped by the massacre.

“I already knew what I was writing for; I was on set, and we were writing specifically about the trauma, the anger, the sadness, all of those feelings that began on that day through the present,” said Benamram, who has also scored other shows, including 2022’s “Suspicion” for Apple TV .

‘We were writing specifically about the trauma, the........

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