Split (, Khatzuya) is an Israeli supernatural drama series. It is directed by Shai Kapon and airs on the HOT VOD Young channel. It is produced by the Dori Media Group through its subsidiary Dori Media Darset (formerly Darset Productions).
Overview Split is created by Ilan Rozenfeld and Shira Alon. Shai Kapon directs the television series, which is produced by the Dori Media Group for the HO VOD Young channel. Amit Farkash plays the 15-year-old Ella Rosen, who finds out that she is half human and half vampire. Yon Tumarkin supports her as the 600-year-old vampire Leo. The series became the most popular show at the HOT VOD Young Channel. Until January 2010 seven million viewers watched the series. Split became also popular outside of Israel. The Boomerang Channel bought the series and broadcast Split in South America. According to TSN Split was sold to 78 different countries. The first season was filmed within 30 days. They started filming in the middle of February and ended at the beginning of April 2009. Split was influenced by the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and True Blood and Stephenie Meyers Twilight series.
Plot summary
First Season The series centers around 15-year-old Ella Rosen who begins high school along with her best friend, Omer Teneh. The school is managed by the stone-hearted Amnon Green, who is secretly the head of The Order of Blood, an order founded 1,000 years ago to cleanse the world of vampires.
During the series there are three major plot lines which are all connected: First line of action – Tells the story of Ella Rosen (who is involved with all three lines), a confused, introverted teenage girl who is sure that no one who understands her. Ella is a Split – half-vampire and half-human – and has a major part in a conflict between the two races. A 600-year-old vampire (but with the appearance of a high school student) named Leo is sent after her in intention to help her find out who and what she is and what she is destined to do. A love triangle is created between Ella, Leo and Omer, who is secretly in love with her. Second line of action - Reveals the story of Zohar, Sushi (Moshe) and Guy (Ella's Brother), who represent the school's fencing team. Guy fancies Zohar, daughter of the principal. Eventually she responds to his advances and they become a couple. Together, they try to help Sushi overcome his stage fright, which leads to a love triangle among the three. When Zohar's father loses his memory, she has to take her father's place as the head of The Order of Blood. Sushi stands by her when Guy is bitten and becomes a vampire which conflicts his relationship with Zohar. Third line of action - Reveals the story of the vampires. The Vampires' Prophet (also known as The Blood Chosen, who provides blood replacement and has the authority to make the decision in arguments) is a Split named Ardak, who realizes that his life is about to end and that he has to choose a successor. Phaton, his brother, is about to be crowned, but the coronation is interrupted because of Ardak's vision, which reveals another Split, their younger sister, who was believed to be dead. Ardak sends his guardian, Leo, to find her and tell her about her being a Split. Phaton is angered for not being crowned and he undermines Ardak by a secret mutiny and does severe actions such as incitement against the Prophet, releases prisoners for his own benefit and murdering The Vampire Council members (a council of vampires with the authority to judge and define laws, which has to obey the Blood Chosen's rules).
Nicky (Nurit), is a character who is involved with all three plot lines. In the first one, Nicky befriends Ella, and is willing to listen to Ella's troubles and fears, which helps Ella deal with what she finds out about herself. In the second plot line, Nicky is the one who proves to Zohar that a war against the vampires is not the solution, and that it will not stop the vampires' attacks (a result of a shortage of the blood replacement, following Ardak's death). Plus, Sushi and Nicky become a couple at the end of the season. In the third plot line, Carmel (Leo's past lover) is released by Phaton and possesses Nicky's body, in order to distract Leo from guarding Ella (to overcome Ella, and win the title of the Prophet). Carmel also bites Guy and turns him into a vampire. Later on Leo gets back on the right track and releases Nicky by vanquishing Carmel.
At the end of the season, the vampires are exposed in front of the school's students and staff, and Ella, who is opened up and bolder changes during the season, is presented as the new prophet, in front of the vampires and humans both, during a concert in the school. Amnon thinks he won and wants to kill Ella and eliminate the blood replacement, but backs down after Ella shows him (in a vision) that he should stop the war. According to the vision, Zohar will die if he does not do so. Meanwhile, in The Order of Blood, Zohar (who had already understood that war is not the answer), Guy, Sushi and Nicky seek and find video cassettes which document vampires in order to reveal them to the world and expose the vampires. However, as they try to leave the place, they are interrupted by Tamar, a high-level vampire exterminator, a member of The Order of Blood. Tamar stops them and tries to kill Guy, who is now known as a vampire. According to Ella's vision, which was shown to Amnon, Zohar is shot by Tamar after defending Guy with her body, sacrificing herself. But since Amnon had backed down, another thing happens: Zohar shows Tamar her personal file, which reveals that Tamar's parents got into an exchange of fire between The Order of Blood and vampires, and due to that were killed by the order's fire. Tamar herself survived thanks to a vampire who saved her. Tamar, who always thought that vampires killed her parents, stops the war. The video cassettes are released, and the world is exposed to vampires. At the end of the season, Ella has to choose between Omer and Leo, both in love with her. Ella chooses Omer. The last scene seems as madness, insanity: Dima, a fencing teacher at the school and also the Guardian of the blood replacement fountain, is shown in the fountain's cave, surrounded with doubles of him in different outfits doing different actions. Dima says "Finally, the end of the blood period has come to an end. Now it's our turn". He repeats the last sentence several times, as he starts to dance around the cave. The rest of the doubles disappear, and the real Dima turns directly to the audience and roars like a lion. This indicates a dramatic change that is probably going to apply in next season.
Second Season The season begins with an event that occurred 1,000 years prior to season 2 in the Woods of Green. Ardak fights Lilth, the queen of the demons, and stabs her in the heart with his sword. Once she's killed, all of her demons vanish. Ardak permits letting Lilth's Servant to flee; the Servant is revealed to be Dima.
1,000 years later, a new School year is starting in Green High. Ella decides not to move to Ardak's Tabernacle, and wants live her life like a normal teenager. The situation causes clashes between her and Leo. Meanwhile, Dima discovers the body of Lilth in the fountain's cave and also discovers the cave is full of demons eggs. During an earthquake, one of the eggs hatches and the newly-born demon flees. The target of the demons is to draw vampires' souls, create a stone out of it, and bring it to their queen so she can create new demons.
Soon after the demon flees from the cave, he arrives to Green High, there he draws a vampire's soul which enrolled as a student at the school (demons automatically draw vampires' souls when a vampire is near them) and takes over his identity. From that point forward, the name of the demon is Adam. Adam is not aware of the fact that he is a demon and doesn't know how to control his powers. Adam first meets Ella when he tries to attack her and he discovered he can not do so when she's around.
Ella gets a premonition in which she brings Adam back to life, which later revealed to be an initiative by Dima, who realizes he could bring Lilith back to life with the help of Ella. Dima's soul is poisoned, and Adam, who draws it by Dima's demand, dies. Dima summons Ella to the Cave and she brings Adam back to life. Ella feels there is something different in Adam and takes him under her wing, while trying to figure out what creature he actually is. Dima demands that Adam ingratiate himself with Ella, so when the time comes he'll ask her to use her powers to revive Lilth. If Ella won't do this, Adam will die.
Leo is heartbroken, because Ella chose to be with Omer instead of being with him. Leo is slowly dying. He is fired from his job as the prophet's guardian and attempts to make Ella realize he is her true love, not Omer. In the meantime, Adam continues to draw vampire'ss soul and create stones out of them in a slow and painful process. Jamon, who was a senior in the Vampires' council, is now Ella's advisor and manager of a new nightclub in town (a main location in the season) open exclusively to vampires who prefer to stay away from humans. The humans and the vampires now have secret agreements. According to the agreement the humans will provide blood to the vampires and in exchange the vampires will provide their knowledge to humans.
The human who signs on the agreements with the vampires is Amnon Green. Amnon asks Tamar (who was his assistant in the Order of Blood) to spy for him after Andrea Fox, and old friend of his and a hater of vampires, who owns the box of blood, an ancient box which contains the powers of an ancient vampire. The box can be opened only with the blood of 10 vampires and one Split. Tamar proves to Andre she is loyal to him by "shooting" Amnon, but in fact she warned him before that and Amnon pretends to be in coma in the hospital.
Ella and Omer break up during the season and Ella starts dating Leo. Adam tells Ella he is a demon and she promises him she will protect him. When the vampires discover Adam's true nature, they try to kill him but Ella saves him. Therefore, Leo opens the Box of Blood and is trying to kill Adam with the powers he receives from it. Ella brings Lilith back to life so she could help her save Adam.
Lilth kills Leo after she kisses him and begins producing a new species: new creatures which are half vampire, half demon. Although he is being loyal to Lilth, Dima brings Leo back to life. In the school's gym, Ella fights against Lilth and is about to lose but then Adam draws Lilth's soul, killing her for good. Adam then dies. The new offspring of Lilth hatched and the humans attack them with archery, successfully destroying all of them.
Michael, Ella's foster father, manages to create a new blood replacement for the vampires, and Leo agrees that Ella does not have to move to the tabernacle.
Just when everything seems perfect, the last scene of the season shows us one last offspring has survived and stands in the woods of Green. Her fangs and demon's nails are revealed to the viewers.
Third Season: Split – The True Story The third season of Split is a show within a show telling the story of a young group of actors and actresses which is starring in the successful youth-vampire series Split
While filming the second season of Split Yon (who plays Leo) and Amit (who plays Ella) were a couple, Yon turned down an offer of playing the lead-role in a new movie abroad to stay with Amit, Amit thinks she's hunted by ghosts and is freaking out saying Yon is the only one who could save her from the ghosts. Yon, who's confused because of this, breaks up with Amit, Quit his role as Leo in Split and is taking the offer to star in the movie abroad.