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For seven centuries, the ancient Jewish community of Aleppo (Syria) has safeguarded a sacred treasure worth millions: the Aleppo Codex. Until one night, riots set the synagogue on fire, and the Crown began its dangerous journey. In 1957, while secretly on its way from Aleppo to the hands of the president of Israel in Jerusalem, a third of its pages disappeared. This is the story of the attempt to solve the mystery of the lost pages. Were they simply...
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A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his grip on the 'family business', sending them on a rigid and unsure transition from Monarchy to Democracy.
4) Noble Savage
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Hebrew-speaking with English subtitles. Winner of 2 Israeli Academy Awards. A teenager live spins out of control when he attempts to reunite his junkie mother with his alcoholic unemployed father.
6) Kippur
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The story of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights of Israel. Told from the perspective of the Israeli soldiers.
9) Bethlehem
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Bethlehem tells the story of the complex relationship between Razi, an Israeli Secret Service officer, and his teenage Palestinian informant Sanfur. Sanfur is the younger brother of Ibrahim, a highly wanted Palestinian militant. Razi, determined to capture or assassinate Ibrahim, recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, investing all his energy in the kid and developing a very intimate, almost fatherly relationship with him. Sanfur, who has always lived...
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Of Land and Bread is a series of vignettes about the daily life of Palestinians in the West Bank. It is a story of constant vulnerability where one's life is lived under the specter of state violence and the whims of settlers, and a camera is one's only defense.
In 2005, human rights organization B'Tselem established a video department, seeking to amplify the impact and power of their written reports on human rights violations in the Occupied Territories...
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Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. The man who led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish manuscripts from the Nazis, survived WWII due to Stalin sending him a private rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and immigrated to Israel in 1947 where he led Yiddish culture, while writing in astonishing vitality.
12) Frozen Days
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A lonely young woman survives a suicide bombing and assumes the identity of one of its victims. As she moves into his apartment her grip on reality starts to crack.
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Just For Today volume 8
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Anat finds overdosed Niko on the brink of death. She saves him using a Narcan injection, which only helps for 3 hours. Niko asks her to let him die. Furious, Anat puts another shot next to him & leaves. But as the 3 hours had almost passed, she returns. She sees Niko failing to inject himself & quickly calls an ambulance. By the time the medics arrive, she realizes that Niko managed to get away.
14) Song of Life
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Song of Life' follows the Israeli Philharmonia Singers choir on a tour to Poland where they perform at the ceremony commemorating 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the rehearsal in Tel Aviv, they sing the famous requiem by Verdi. 76 year-old Greta Klinsberg has just joined the choir only to realize that she sang this requiem 62 years before, as a child in the ghetto of Terezienstadt. Then she was sent to the...
15) All Eyes Off Me
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Three loosely connected chapters portray a confident generation of young Israelis who are ready to try anything and everything.
16) Night Shift
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Rafi Melles, an Ethiopian beat cop is the only person in charge of the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Israel. But unlike most cops whose task is to maintain law and order, Rafi's work revolves around helping the immigrant residents adapt to life in Israel.
17) Amor
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Daniel returns to his childhood home in a small town in Israel after a very long time of living abroad. He seeks out Lilah, who was the love of his life that remained in his town when he left. Lilah, a former ballet teacher, has been paralyzed and bedridden for the past three years. Realizing her situation, Daniel is going to commit an unbelievable act of love.
18) Golden Voices
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Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film dubbers. As the USSR collapses, the couple must immigrate to Israel and start anew by putting their vocal talents to unexpected use in the underground economy.
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Menachem Begin led Israel for six dramatic and tumultuous years, which produced waves that are still felt deeply within the fabric of Israel's social and political landscape. During Begin's shortened one and a half terms of office, he faced a maelstrom of challenges and made a handful of fateful decisions that led to both creating peace and launching a bloody, seemingly never ending war.
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Rabin In His Own Words is an "autobiography" of sorts, the story is told entirely in Rabin's own voice. Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold before the viewer's eyes - from his childhood as the son of a labor leader before the founding of the State of Israel, through a change of viewpoint that turned him from a farmer into an army man who stood at some of the most...