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Gal Gadot (born April 30, 1985) is an Israeli-American actress. She gained recognition for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe films (2016–2023). In 2018, Gadot was named one of Time's 100 most influential people and ranked by Forbes as the tenth-highest-paid actress, later rising to third in 2020. She became the first Israeli actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025. Gadot grew up in Rosh HaAyin, and first gained attention locally after winning the Miss Israel 2004, followed by two years of service in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat trainer. During this time, she participated in a Maxim photo shoot that boosted her public profile. Gadot then began modeling and endorsing various brands. She made her television debut in the Israeli drama Bubot in 2008, followed by her film debut in a supporting role as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), reprising it in multiple sequels. Gadot first portrayed Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman. The success of the film led to her starring in Wonder Woman (2017), which became a major box office hit. She also reprised the role in Justice League (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), the latter of which she also co-produced. Since then, she has starred in Red Notice (2021), Death on the Nile (2022), Heart of Stone (2023), which she co-produced, and portrayed the Evil Queen in Snow White (2025).
Noa Shalem, 37, left Jaffa at twenty-two for a career in architecture in New York and built both a career and a life she is genuinely proud of. When her mother's declining health brings her back to the ancient port city of Jaffa — where Arab and Jewish Israelis have lived in complicated, beautiful proximity for generations — she finds a city that is being rapidly gentrified and a community navigating the specific tensions of that transformation. Her return is intended to be temporary; the series is about everything that makes it not. The central romance with Sami — an Arab-Israeli architect who has spent his career fighting to preserve Jaffa's original character and who is both Noa's professional equal and her philosophical opposite on what the city needs — is the series' central love story. Two seasons track Noa's reintegration into a place she thought she had left and a love she did not plan for.
