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The Ancestral Sin

The Ancestral Sin

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2017

Runtime

1h 49m

Original Title

סלאח, פה זה ארץ ישראל

Director

David Deri

Description

The story of Israel's "development towns" in a chilling documentary, as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. The director's family, like others, was taken to Yeruham, a development town in the Negev desert. Their personal stories recount of the price immigrant-families pay and the price still paid by Israeli society, unwilling to deal head-on with those early years and forgotten towns.