Movie producers often close sets to protect the secrecy of their films, but they don’t usually do so to protect the physical and mental health of those nearby.

That’s just what happened with the four-part series “Red Alert” about the Israeli heroes, who rose up in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel. During a scene about the terror attacks on Kibbutz Nir Oz, Lawrence Bender, executive producer of the series, told the crew to line trucks up around the set, so that children in the nearby town wouldn’t see the actors dressed like Hamas terrorists.

The children “were sent to a kids park for most of the day,” Bender told JNS. “We paid for them to go have a fun day.”

The producer also worried about what adults in the village might do if they saw the staged scenes, particular

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