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THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND

by Shai Gal

SYNOPSIS

This rare documentary retraces the moment in history when a terrorist plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, was prevented. A moment that could have sparked a nuclear war in the Middle East, Director Shai Gal interviews those involved; from members of the Jewish Underground, a right-wing terrorist organisation, to the Israeli secret service.

Tracing the events in the form of a detective story and using interviews with key figures including the perpetrators, who claim they have nothing to hide, Gal builds an account of this potentially catastrophic event.

This political thriller goes on to expose how the members of this Isreali right-wing terrorist organisation have now paved their way into the heart of Israel’s current power.

DETAILS

91 mins

2017

Israel

Hebrew

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TRAILER

CREDITS

Director: Shai Gal

Production: Kobi Nussbaum - July August Productions

Executive Producer: Lisa Shiloach & Amit Stretiner - July August Productions

Cinematography: Uriel Sinai, Ram Shweky, Eyal Ben Yaish, Daniel Kedem

Editing: Erez Laufer

Sound: Tully Chen

Sound Design: Rei Elbaz

Music: Shmulik Noifeld, Roi Noifeld

Screenplay: Shai Gal

BIOGRAPHY

DIRECTOR - SHAI GAL

Shai Gal is an Israeli investigative TV journalist and filmmaker known for The Jewish Underground (2017). Gal grew up on a kibbutz, where he discovered his journalistic curiosity by accidentally overhearing some of the sessions his psychologist mother had with her patients.

After 13 years as a reporter for Channel 2 News, Gal is now a correspondent on the award-winning, prime time investigative TV show “Uvda” (“Fact” in Hebrew). Over the years, his in-depth reporting has often had an impact on events in Israel: his profile on Naama Margolese, an 8-year-old girl terrorized by ultra-Orthodox men in Beit Shemesh in 2011, led to a backlash that resulted in hundreds of thousands demonstrating. A heart-wrenching story he aired on poverty among Israel Defense Forces soldiers was credited with improving their conditions.

SELECT FESTIVALS

CPH:DOX 2018〡IDFA 2018〡DOCAVIV 2018〡ATLANTA JEWISH FF 2019

PRESS

"Startling."
- The Jerusalem Post

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