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

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