Movie Details
Original Language:Hebrew
The Ancestral Sin on the Web:Official Website
Cast & Crew
R
Ruth Yuval
Writer
D
Doron Galezer
Writer
T
Talia Aloni
Researcher
The Ancestral Sin
1 hr 49 min
Plot
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.
