Het waargebeurde verhaal over de kaping van een vliegtuig van Air France. Vier kapers dwingen het vliegtuig inclusief passagiers te laten landen in Entebbe, Oeganda, waarmee ze proberen tientallen Palestijnen die vastzitten in Israël te bevrijden.
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the recent history of Israel and the Palestinian territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, from 1967, when the Six-Day War took place, to the present day; an account by filmmaker Avi Mograbi enriched by the testimonies of Israeli army veterans.
The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience. The two earlier documentaries, "Porquoi Israel," and "Shoah," have had great effect on the ways documentaries are produced. "Tsahal" zeroes in on the crucial role of the military in Israeli society and politics. The film uses many in-depth interviews to present the many feelings and thoughts about the Israeli military.
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the mistreatment of Palestinians, they battle the old guard to create a new movement opposing Israel’s occupation, and recentering Judaism itself.
Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark secret in her past, comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and then to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don't seem to like strangers and foreigners, and that the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday for Jews), will bring danger to her and her young volunteering friends. What begins as a time of fun and the celebration of youth turns into a menacing and bloody night of terror, which will give a new meaning to Yom Kippur of 1973.
Zeven jaar na het voltooien van een Israëlische Defensiecursus voor vrouwelijke gevechtssoldaten keert regisseur Hen Lasker terug om dieper in te gaan op de plek waar ze voor het eerst verliefd werd op een vrouw. In de loop van 66 dagen en nachten maakt Lasker een fly-on-the-wall-documentaire die ongekende intimiteit in de levens van de stagiaires en commandanten van het Israëlische leger mogelijk maakt. De onschuld van deze stagiaires met babygezichten en de zware last van de militaire dienst is een centraal thema van de film, geïllustreerd in een scène waarin ze bespreken hoe ze hun maagdelijkheid verliezen terwijl ze wachten op hun beurt om een machinegeweer af te vuren. Maar het is de relatie van de regisseur met Smadar, een adembenemende commandant die worstelt om haar zachte ziel te maskeren met een strikt militair karakter, wat de film echt betoverend maakt. Het kruispunt van liefde, plicht en persoonlijke groei bloeit tot in het verrassend ontroerende einde van de film.
Gaza Fights for Freedom depicts the ongoing Great March of Return protests in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine, that began in 2018.
De film speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van de terugtrekking van Israël uit Libanon in mei 2000. Drie reservisten, die tevens lid zijn van een militaire rockband, raken verzeild in een grote drugssmokkel georganiseerd door hun corrupte commandant.
A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart as they witness and film the Qana massacre. They secure video evidence indicating that Israel deliberately bombed a UN camp killing 106 refugees.
The last years have seen a steep rise in the number of Arabs signing up to Israel's army. Considered traitors by many in the Arab community, what drives these young men to fight for a country traditionally in conflict with Arab interests? Does this provide a path for Israeli/Arab integration? In this insightful doc, we follow the first Arab battalion fighting for Israel.
Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli occupation. His only weapon is a camera.