The Ancestral Sin

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Returning series

First aired

May 15, 2017

Last aired

June 5, 2017

Episodes

4

Original language

Hebrew

Spoken languages

Hebrew

Creators

David Deri, Elisha Efrat, Erez Tzfadia