Parpar Nechmad

Parpar Nechmad
פרפר נחמד
Genre
Created byShoshana Tzachor
Directed byYael Graf
Titi Ax
Arie Ben Tzion
Bobby Lex
Presented by
  • Dudu Zar (original series)
  • Uzi Hitman (original)
  • Ofra Wingerten (original)
  • Shlomit Hagoel-Triger (original)
  • Ofra Haza (original)
  • Effy Ben Yisrael (original)
  • Adva Edni (original)
  • Guy Fridman (original)
  • Elanor Aaron (original)
  • Rama Messinger (original)
  • Meshi Klinstein (reboot)
  • Uri Banay (reboot)
  • Ester Rada (reboot)
  • Ben Yosifobich (reboot)
Voices of
  • Ayelet Levin
  • Irit Shila
  • Itzik Gayar
  • Jil Ben David
  • Avi Yakir
  • Yoni Chen
  • Tzlila Yanai
  • Galia Yishai
  • Ami Weinberg
Country of originIsrael
Original languageHebrew
No. of seasons17
No. of episodes212
Production
Executive producerShoshana Tzachor
ProducerEinat Dekel-Weitzman
Running time25 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkIsraeli Educational Television
Release31 March 1984 (1984-03-31) 
2004 (2004)
NetworkKan Educational
Release5 September 2021 (2021-09-05) 
present

Parpar Nechmad (Hebrew: פרפר נחמד, Nice Butterfly) is a long-running Israeli children's television programme, aimed mainly at pre-school children. The series premiered in January 1982 and ran until 2004. It was produced by Israeli Educational Television (IETV), and to this day, remains successful in repeats on IETV's former home network, Channel 23, and via a reboot of the series that debuted on 5 September 2021 on Kan Educational.

The programme was originally produced by Shoshana Tzachor. Its head writer was Datia Ben Dor, who provided scripts for most of the early shows, as well as lyrics and music to many of the featured songs. The puppets were all designed by Yehudit Greenspan. The show's title refers to a then well-known nursery rhyme by Fania Bergstein, "Come to Me, Nice Butterfly".