Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.

It also won the 2012 Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Television Series. In addition to translating the original scripts from Hebrew into English Raff acted as an executive producer on the US show and co-wrote the pilot episode. His father is Eitan Raff who served as Accountant General in the Israeli Ministry of Finance and was Chairman of the Board of Bank Leumi.

Gideon "Gidi" Raff (Hebrew: גדעון "גידי" רף‎; born 1973) is an Israeli film and television director screenwriter and writer.