The extremely tense Israeli series Fauda, Season 3

Like its predecessors, Season 3 of the Israeli series Fauda is as tense and gripping as anything on TV, start to finish - and of course it leaves the door open to a 4th season. The story continues with the adventures of a small team of Israeli agents assigned to undercover, anti-terrorism work against the radical Islamists and Palestinian activists at work on the West Bank, the Palestine-controlled segments of Jerusalem, and - in this season - on the extremely dangerous (to the Israelis) Gaza strip. The season begins as the central character, Doron, is undercover working as a boxing instructor in an Arab community (on the West Bank? - like most American viewers, I'm not familiar with all the geography and the names of the many competing armies and interest groups, making it a little hard to navigate some moments in this series) to gain intelligence about planned terrorist attacks; he's "outed" leading to a # of crises and culminating in a complex and daring series of episodes in which the Israeli team penetrates into Gaza in an attempt to free and rescue two young Israelis held captive as bait for a prisoner exchange. I think what really makes this series is the terrific editing and use of sound, which makes just about every moment a point of high tension and anxiety - but it does so w/ relatively limited violence, it's just anticipation - as, for example, the team works its way through an underground maze of tunnels leading into Gaza or as Doron shelters a wounded comrade as they hole up an a commandeered apartment as a manhunt takes place across the maze of Gaza neighborhoods. A # of story lines, some involving the often-strained relationships among the team members and the inevitable stress these paramilitary operations put on marriages and families - but that said the series is mostly about action and risk, though action presented in what feels like a realistic and credible - not a "superhero," comic-book - manner. The series has been criticized by many factions in and around Israel, with many Palestinians believing that the series always portrays them as perpetrators rather than victims of oppression and many Israelis believing that the series goes too far in portraying the Palestinians, particularly in their family life, as sympathetic characters. Fauda must be doing something right!