When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot.

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.