Hitganvut Yehidim / Infiltration

Based on one of the most popular Israeli novels by Yehoshua Kenaz, this film unravels the making of Israeli national identity through militarism as well as the ethnic, national, and class distinctions that still characterize Israeli society. Set in 1956, enforced conscription affects a diverse group of outcats with physical and mental disabilities. They represent a broad spectrum of immigrants such as Ashkenazim Jews, North Africans, and Holocaust survivors as well as residents from cooperative settlements and kibbutzim.