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The light in Fauda — that flat, white Mediterranean light that strips the West Bank hills down to their geology and turns every checkpoint into an industrial installation — has always done half the show’s argument before any dialogue begins. For ten years, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff’s series has understood that landscape is not backdrop but text: the dust, the hills, the distance between two faces on opposite sides of a barrier say things that neither character could say in a scene. Season 5 m

He never played the game professionally. He banked a game-show cheque, bet all £725 on himself, and turned it into a Champions League dugout — the making of Sabah’s Valdas Dambrauskas.

Reported as a clarification, his second night opening for Ed Sheeran was the opposite — a wider, older refrain delivered from inside the performance, not around it.