The Israeli series, Red Alert, which tells stories of heroism on October 7, received a nomination for a Critics Choice Award in the Best Foreign Language Series category.
The awards will be presented on January 4 in a star-studded ceremony in Santa Monica, California.
Red Alert debuted on Channel 12 in Israel (where it is known in Hebrew as Or Rishon, or First Light) and globally on Paramount+ in October.
The series is named for the phrase that signifies that a missile attack is imminent in Israel, and it dramatizes true stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, many of whom became unlikely heroes.
Rotem Sela, who won a Best Actress award for her role in A Body That Works at the French television competition, Series Mania, in 2023, plays Bat Sheva Yahalomi, who lived on Kibbutz Nir Oz and managed to save herself and her daughters from being kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza but was unable to rescue her son, who was released in the first hostage deal.
Hisham Suliman portrays a Bedouin who must keep his infant son quiet as they hide from the terrorists. Sarit Vino-Elad plays a mother and kindergarten teacher in Ofakim who spends the day driving wounded soldiers to a medical clinic under heavy fire after her son joins the fighting.
Israel Atias has the role of a counter-terrorism officer, also based in Ofakim, who fights to defend his neighbors.
His wife, played by Chen Amsalem Zaguri, is a border police officer working at the Nova music festival, where she tries to evacuate the thousands of partygoers trapped there, alongside her colleague, Liat (Rotem Abuhav), as the terrorists overrun the festival venue and the surrounding area.
Series written, directed by Lior Chefetz, produced by Keshet Media Group
The series was created, written, and directed by Lior Chefetz, and was produced by the Keshet Media Group and Academy-Award nominee Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds), with Green Productions and the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Israel Entertainment Fund.
The other nominees in Red Alert’s category include the Korean thriller series, Squid Game, which won the Critics’ Choice Award in 2022 and 2025.
Sinners leads the movie nominations, and the limited series Adolescence leads the television categories. The interfaith comedy series Nobody Wants This on Netflix received five nominations.
Jewish-American comic Chelsea Handler will host the show.
The Israeli series, Tehran, was nominated in this category in 2023.