The Ancestral Sin

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.

Country:

Israel

Genre:
Duration:

109 minutes

Year:

2017

Director:

David Deri

Cast:
David Deri

Himself

Elisha Efrat

Self

Erez Tzfadia

Self

Crew:
David Deri

Writer

Ruth Yuval

Writer

Doron Galezer

Writer

Talia Aloni

Researcher

Jonathan Bar-Giora

Music