Nachum Shemesh

Nachum Shemesh, mostly known as Shemesh, is the owner of the "Sun Empire". Married to Eti Hillel, brother-in-law of Ravit Hillel. Born in Be'er Sheva, lives in Tel Aviv.

He's portrayed by actor Tzvika Hadar.

Biography
Nachum Shemesh (נחום שמש), born in Be'er Sheva to a Romanian mother as an only child. He is very cynical, cheap (as for the Romanian sterotype), and is a huge fan of the soccer club HaPoel Be'er Sheva. When he's 26, he opens the "Sun Empire" as word-play on his name (Sun = Shemesh in Hebrew).

Season 1
It is discovered in episode 14, "Memories from Father's home" (זיכרונות מבית אבא), that as a child, he used to play the trumpet, but stopped when he was 13 years old, on the day of his Bar Mitzvah. In the same episode, he finds out that actor Paul Newman is his father.

Season 2
In season 2, he's renovating the "Sun Empire". He doesn't like the relationship between Eti and Mano, the new Italian neighbor, and struggles the whole season to tell her how he feels for her. Also, it is discovered that Shemesh's first name is Nachum.

Season 3
In season 3, he almost marries Sivan, a TV producer who tries to control everything in his life. But when she thinks he ran away from their wedding, she decides to leave herself. Eventually, when Shemesh finally arrives, the wedding was really off. At the end of the season he takes the "Empire" staff to a vacation in Haifa, which ends up with him and Eti at the same bed...

Season 4
At the first episode, after coming back from Haifa, Shemesh and Eti declaring themselves as a couple, but that doesn't last long. At the second episode, after going almost bankrupt, Shemesh is asking Tenzer for help. They turn to Marcos Emek, a "combinator" that could save the "Empire" from bankruptcy, and enters the business as a co-owner of the place, with 51% of owning. In the triple-final-episode of season 4, he was taken to prison by the suspect of "buying" a game of HaPoel Be'er Sheva, that ended to be one big misunderstanding.

Season 5
In season 5, he and Eti are becoming room-mates in an apartment above the "Empire", and eventually start to date, after 5 years of confused feelings for each other. At the finale episode of the season, he proposes to her, leaving the viewers the option to choose what Eti should answer.

Season 6
The season opens with Shemesh and Eti getting married at the "Empire", right after the circumcision party for Yaakov "Yaakubu", Ogen, Sasi and Hemi's son, also at the "Empire". Being mad at Eti for letting her sister Ravit to stay in their spare room and letting her be a waitress at the restaurant, he agrees just not to make Eti mad. At the second half of the season, after being fired from her soap-opera, Eti and Shemesh are trying to have a baby. At the final episode of season 6 and the entire show, Hemi is accidently throwing a pot on his head and dies, arrives to heaven, meets his future son, and then coming back to life just in time for Tenzer's wedding party and Eti's pregnancy results from the hospital.

Behind the scenes
In the real life, just like in the show, Zvika Hadar is coming from Be'er Sheva, is a Romanian, and is a fan of HaPoel Be'er Sheva in soccer.