Hashminiya

Infobox Television
show_name = Hashminiya


caption = "HaShminiya" title
format = Drama
Science fiction
runtime = approx. 25 minutes (per episode)
creator = Giora Hamizer
starring = Yedidya Vital
Hili Yalon
Adi Himmelbleu
Danny Leshman
Michael Aloni
Shira Vilenski
Avi Kornick
Don Lenny-Gabay
Limor Atias
opentheme = "Mul Kol HaOlam" by Liron Lev
country = Israel
network = HOT Children
first_aired = June 5 2005
last_aired = February 2 2007
num_seasons = 3
num_episodes = 165
list_episodes =
website = http://www.shesh.co.il/programmes/shminia3/
imdb_id = 0778441
tv_com_id =
followed_by =

"HaShminiya" (English: The Octette) is a television series that broadcasted in the Israeli channel HOT Children. Although the show was designated to children and teenagers, it was hugely watched by adults too. The show was one of the most successful shows in Israel and its prosperity was nearly hysterical.

Season 1

Amos Dvir, Avner HaLevy and Roberto, three scientists investigates the cerebral energy, called "The Lambda Ripples". They want to have an experiment that will include six amnestied kids. After the development, Avner and Amos decides to delay it for some years. Disappointed Roberto is co-operating with Lillie Dvir, Amos' wife, and these two operates the experiment on Amos and Lillie's kids, three-year-old Maya and Jonathan. It doesn't work and explodes, but the kids are staying alive. Roberto is going to jail for six years and Lillie is leaving Israel after divorcing Amos.

The show starts 7 years later: Amos is dying of cancer, so he decides urge his kids adolescence - to the age of fifteen with his machine Turbo-Time, there you can change your age, and changes their names to Aya and Nini. Avner raises a project for amnestied students and Amos is asking him to attach Aya and Nini to the project. Amos is flying to medical treatments in Switzerland, when Aya and Nini is in thoughts that he's dead.

Avner formes "The Octette" and recruits eight amnestied students with lambda ripples in target to investigate the ripples. In addition of riddles solvings and saving the countries and themselves from hostile factors, the octette is acting like a similar class with loves and friendships: Aya and Adam is in love at first sight. Nini and Roni and Mika and Avi are becoming couples too. Lillie, in a surprising method, is coming back from abrod to raise her children. Parallel, she and Roberto is co-operating and follows the project in target to avenge Amos and Avner.

A substitute teacher, named Dedi joins the school and begins a relationship with Dganit, the class' teacher. At the same time Lillie gains control the prjicet and is ready to use the octette like batteries and pump the lambda energy from them. Lillie threatens the octette, almost kills Adam and Dganit, going to jail and disappointed her two kids. Aya and Nini are shocked to know that her father is alive, and he is a person that they knew so far as their History teacher - Dedi. In spite of the project's success, Avner and Dganit decides to finish it because of the student's risk and a possible exposure of the project. The students scattered in couples all over the classes. Dganit and her son, Ben-Ben is moving to Dedi, Nini and Aya's place. The season ends when Nini is returning to be Jonathan and Aya is having doubts, when Adam is asking her for not doing this.

Second Season

The second season opens in an illustrious law of Dedi and Avner, in guilt that they used the kids in illegal ways. They are going to lose it, but the testimony of Yair Noam, the Prime Minister (that was the head of the project as the education minister) prevents it. In the continuation, Dedi, Dganit and Avner starts a new projects, and having the country's confirmation, this time. They are getting aelaborate watch-tower, in the top of the Azrieli towers, there they can work easily. The formal reason is solving some of the contry issues, but in fact, the country is trying to use their lambda. The project is well funded by the Prime Minister and his assistant, Muli Noam.

Nini decides to be 15 again, and Aya is visiting Lillie in jail and even to Patmos, her asylum. When Aya is on the plane to Patmos, it suddenly crushed in the sea and all the proves shows that Aya was on that plane, although there was no corpse founded. At the same time, Dganit meets an orphaned girl named Nitzan and adopts her to her house. Nitzan sleeps in Aya's room and start to spend time with the group. At first, she's dating Dori, but finally she's dating Adam, after he's defeat Aya's death. Avner recognizes lambda ripples in Nitzan too and she joins the project, instead of Aya. At the same time, it is seen that Aya is not dead, but in an insulated desert in the middle of nowhere.

Aya confronts the snatcher which is Muli Noam. Muli is a member of a sect named "Scorpio", destructive sect that want to spread their ideas using the lambda ripples and having the domination on the world. The sect is trying to pump Aya's energy and even threatens to hurt Adam's sister, Rotem. Later, they kidnaps Dedi. At the same time, Daniel Harris, a 19-years-old millionaire is getting into Natascha and Roni's life. He's dating Roni and taking Natascha as a beginner artist under his patronage. But, he is a member of the Scorpio sect too. And as he is, Lina, Natascha's cousin, does too. Nearly at the end of the season, it is purified that Lillie was a member of the sect also, but for saving her ex-husband and daughter, Dedi and Aya, until she is going to jail, again.

The sect members kidnaps the octette and bring them into the temple where Aya, Dedi and Lillie is in. Finally, Dedi shoots Muli and all the sect members are halted by the police, except Daniel, that escapes. The octette members, and especially Adam, is shocked to see Aya alive. Aya is coming back home, but she is broken-hearted and feels hard and uncomfortable with her friends. Nitzan is moving to Roni's place, instead of Roni's sister, Elli, that is flying to London as a MTV emissary. Dganit is telling Dedi that she is pregnant, ant they are getting married.

Season 3

The third season starts in Mika's aunt villa. It's summer holiday.When a weird guest is coming to the villa, everybody in the octette, except Aya, joins police secret organization "HaMoatza". Aya prefers to spend her the summer holidays in helping pregnant Dganit and reading books. The octette introduce themselves to Alex, Lillie's sister and the head of "HaMoatza", and the three procurators, Yoel, Dafi, the weird guest, and Omri. At the same time, Avi, that becomes the Shminiya commander, breaks up with Mika and is moving in to Czechov's place, a member of "HaMoatza" too, and an old friend. Avi doesn't know that he was chosen to be commander because his relationship with Czechov. Roni and Nini are coming back together, Nitzan and Adam keep on their relationship, although Adam still have feelings to Aya.

At the same time, Dganit's doctor, Yulius Calderon, arousing suspicion in Aya, and later it is exposed that he was the doctor of all the octette members' mothers, when they were pregnant. Yulius combines Daniel Harris and Lina, that escaped jail, and together, they are trying to get the Crypton gene, the gene of making a human with lambda ripples a physically perfect human.