“HaMisrad”: the boundary-expanding Israeli version of “The Office” | 20,000 Leagues from Hillel
English comedian Ricky Gervais created the original British version of The Office, which quickly jumped across the Atlantic to the U.S. Here, no one was quite sure the hit NBC comedy could ever be the same after Michael Gary Scott left Dunder Mifflin, but this hasn’t stopped other countries from playing on the formula the British series developed. Enter the…