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‘Degania’ – The First Kibbutz Fights its Last Battle

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Documentary / History

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews

Runtime: 60 Min

The drama surrounding the privatization of the world's first kibbutz is an ironic allegory to current global crises as the world financial bubble bursts together with our strong belief in capitalist dream.

At the center of this drama is a bitter dispute over the privatization of the world's first kibbutz, 'Degania', established 100 years ago on the banks of the Jordan River. 'Degania' was the Utopian flagship of a Zionist-socialist experiment copied by 400 other kibbutzim.It's ethos was "From each member according to his ability, to each member according to his need". Einstein, Kafka, Gandhi and Masaryk came to see and learn from it.It reflected a struggle between the ideals of cooperative life with shared responsibilities and values versus a community of individuals each responsible for his own destiny. The social fabric woven over a period of 100 years is torn to pieces as the ideological rift widens. This is a local as well as a universal story of the struggle between values of social responsibility against economic and individual freedom.

Israel, 2008

The Last witness

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Rochus Misch is the last living witness of Hitler’s final days. He was Hitler's typist, bodyguard and personal assistant through the drama that marked the last months of the Nazi regime.

Rochus Misch stayed by Hitler’s side in the Fuhrerbunker throughout the last months of his life. He witnessed the turbulent conclusion of the last Nazi drama: the moment of realization when Hitler knew that the war was irretrievably lost, the dismissal of the bunker personnel, the typing of Hitler’s last will and testament, the preparations for the collective suicide of the Goebbels family and the failed attempt by the pilot Hanna Reitsch to get their six children out of the bunker, the suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun, the removal of their bodies from the bunker and their cremation in the garden.

In this profoundly important piece of evidence and testimonial, Misch describes the workings of the most evil man-made machine of our history - the Nazi regime.

Being Here – Being There

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Special award of merit in Intercom Chicago International Film Festival

Told from the angle of families of Holocaust survivors, the heroes of this film are respectable people who function socially and have rehabilitated their lives in an extraordinary way. But when the camera follows them in their everyday lives at home, the skeletons in the cupboard are revealed. We meet people who have lost their childhood in the Holocaust and in their old age continue to play with dolls, people whose nightmares bring abnormal behavior and others who have tried to commit suicide as a result of their deep guilt feeling at having survived. Most of them suppress and hide the past because of their shame and their wish to protect their children from knowing the horrors which haunt them. We discover how a part of Israeli society rejects the survivors, believing that the victims went like lambs to the slaughter. The existence of such a state of mind leads to confrontations within the family, some of the tragic results of which are shown in the film.
Here also, the second generation’s psychological state of mind is examined. They inherit a pattern of survivalism from their parents. Mostly because of tension in their home, they try to detach themselves from parents who are so obsessive about protecting their children. The film shows how this curse of the Holocaust is also inherited by the third generation who carry a survivalistic pattern of behavior from their parents and grandparents.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews

Udi Adiv, A Broken Israeli Myth

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Documentary / Biography / Politics / History
Director: Itzhak Rubin
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Language: Hebrew with English Subtitles

The sensational espionage story of Udi Adiv - first grandson of the Gan Shmuel Kibbutz and paratrooper from among the Western Wall liberators during the Six-Day War, who was accused of spying for Syria - was one of the most exciting events in Israel during the early 70s.
During the 1950s, a friend of the Adiv family, Uri Ilan, emerged from the same kibbutz (Gan Shmuel). He was one of the heroic figures of the Israeli myth surrounding the issue of spying in Syria. He was caught and tortured and when his body was returned to Israel, a note bearing the mythological sentence “I was not a traitor” was found between his toes.
Udi Adiv and the other members of the Jewish-Arab network headed by Daud Turki (Udi Adiv’s instigator) and an Israeli Arab resident of Haifa’s Wadi Nisnas were accused of secretly traveling to Damascus to plan a Marxist revolution in Israel under the auspices of Syria.
The network members’ trial was the most widely discussed event in the State of Israel in those days. For the first time, an Israeli court of law allowed television cameras into the courthouse. Some claim that from this moment on, the image of the kibbutzim began to deteriorate in the eyes of the Israeli public. Udi Adiv and Daud Turki were sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment. Daud Turki was released 12.5 years later during the famous Jibril deal and Udi Adiv was released by the prison service release committee further to a public campaign to reduce his sentence.

Festivals and Screenings:

Israel - Channel 2