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- Ein Beira is transliterated Hebrew, meaning "No Choice."
- Gideon was wounded in battle near Jerusalem by an Arab sniper. He was saved by a woman, and then evacuated to recovery in the hospital. After recovering, he decides to return to his kibbutz and his girlfriend, but soon he realizes that he prefers the woman who rescued him.
- The War of Independence, the in gathering of the exiles and land reclamation during Israel's first two years.
- Produced in Israel in English with an international cast, "The Faithful City" depicts some of the courage, patience, bravery and understanding that attended the birth of Israel as a free and independent nation. The larger story is told within the framework of a simple story regarding the rehabilitation of orphaned-children from war-ravaged Europe. Sam, a counselor from a boy's camp in New York state, is at first confident that children are children no matter what their backgrounds. He soon finds the young refugees to be mature, tough, and living by the creed of 'survival at any cost.' One of the children,Max, frustrates Sam by his dishonesty and cockiness.
- A little boy doesn't know what to do when his favorite animal, a cow, no longer provides milk.
- In 1948, four Israeli soldiers recount the events that led them to take up arms while preparing for a final mission in the hours leading up to a truce.
- The story follows a truck which is brought into British occupied Palestine during the secret arrival of Jewish refugees and is later used during the war for Israel's independence and the combat against the Arabs.
- This is the story of a small band of Jews who traveled on foot from Yemen to Israel in 1926. Naomi (Shoshana Damari) is a Jewish woman who was orphaned as a child and works as an entertainer in a coffeehouse. There is antisemitism in the town, and when a little Jewish boy's parents are murdered by marauding Arabs, the local people take the boy to live with Naomi. At this time, a group is forming to make the trek to Israel, and Naomi and the little boy join the group. Zadok (Shaike Ophir) is a Zionist emissary who has been sent to lead the group on the grueling journey.
- A Tel Aviv taxi breaks down, and while the driver attempts to repair it, the passengers take shelter and relate tales to each other. One man relates how he became a hero, in a comic fashion, while on Army maneuvers; an elderly woman tells of her first visit to the big city; another woman tells how she and her husband invited his boss and his wife to their home for dinner, with the intent of getting the husband a raise, and they wound up in a hospital thinking they had food poisoning. Another story concerns how the police caught a demented-thief who stole from a bank to give money to the poor.
- A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.
- Hand-painted illustrations move following the music.
- The recreation of the establishment of a nineteenth century settlement in Eretz Yisrael by ten Russian Jews. They had to build the land and also contend with the Arab resentment and the Turkish military.
- An Israeli woman wants her daughter to marry Mike, the rich American son of an oil tycoon. However, she is already in love with a poor soldier, and Mike only has eyes for a Yemenite whose picture he sees in the paper.
- The actual trial of Adolf Eichman held in Israel in 1961.
- The story of the Biblical Joseph and his coat of many colors.
- A Bedouin woman hides an Israeli pilot from Egyptian soldiers. While the Egyptian soldiers torture her to get information, the Israeli soldiers rescue her.
- Considered by many as one of the most poetic films ever produced in this country, and as a milestone in Israeli documentary cinema, In Jerusalem is composed of 10 engaged observations of the city, before it was united.
- Gidi "the tall" and Jako "the short", are two bums who colourfully paint the gray streets of Tel Aviv, trying to make some money and find a shelter.
- The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
- A charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.
- Daliah sneaks into a cargo ship bound to Israel. The sailors will do anything to hide from the though captain her and catch her attention.
- A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to audition for parts in the "film" (cinema 'verite' style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to void apartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing Zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality.
- The Simhon family was a radio show on Army Radio in the 1960's. The show was broadcast three times a week in 10 minutes each. In 1964, this film adaptation was produced.
- A group of children embrace an eccentric old man, and working together, build a ship on a rooftop.
- A German Jewish engineer is the only survivor of a concentration camp where he would work in a counterfeiting unit.
- A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel.