Keshet International has acquired Keshet 12’s “Murder at the Dead Sea,” a gripping new crime thriller starring Niv Sultan from “Tehran” in the lead role.

The seven-episode drama is set to premiere on Keshet 12 on December 22, taking viewers to the Dead Sea and a quarantined hotel during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

The whodunnit series is set in a COVID hotel, and opens with the mysterious death of a pop icon whose body plummets from the ninth floor.

During the coronavirus pandemic, local hotels were managed by the military’s Home Front Command, as part of an effort to ease the load on hospitals as they dealt with the rising number of patients diagnosed with the COVID-19........

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