Kanaan, a symbol of dining across religious and political divides, will shut its doors ‘probably in March’, say owners
An Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin conceived as an “island of peace” will close in the spring, but its Jewish and Arab owners say their dream will live on in a television series based on their unlikely partnership.
Kanaan, a decade-old casual eatery in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital, gained an international profile for its message of “unity over hate” after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas and the outbreak of the Gaza war.
Now as the owners Oz Ben David, an Israeli, and Jalil Dabit, a Palestinian, say they will wind down operations, the German production company Traumfabrik Babelsberg has announced plans for a miniseries based on Kanaan.
Called Breaking the Binary, it is described as a politically charged “dramedy” with echoes of The Bear, the hit US series set in a hectic restaurant kitchen.
