‘Fauda’s’ new sea­son is a grip­ping, mov­ing trib­ute to the vic­tims of Oct. 7

A nation is civ­i­lized if it can trans­mute its suf­fer­ing into art. The lat­est sea­son of the Israeli thriller series Fau­da neat­ly demon­strates the prin­ci­ple.

That sea­son, the show’s fifth, is avail­able on Net­flix in its entire­ty and con­cerns the events of Oct. 7, 2023, and their after­math. As in the show’s ear­li­er runs, the lead char­ac­ter is Doron Kabilio (Lior Raz), an Israeli Jew trained to oper­ate under­cov­er among Arab mil­i­tants. In the show’s first four out­ings, released in Amer­i­ca from 2016 through 2023, Doron and his com­pa­tri­ots took on Hamas, the Islam­ic State, Hezbol­lah, and Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist cells. The lat­est edi­tion thus rep­re­sents both a con­tin­u­a­tion of, and a depar­ture from, the norm: “con­tin­u­a­tion” in the sense that Doron’s abid­ing mis­sion has not changed; “depa …