The Ancestral Sin (2017)

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.

First aired

2017-05-15

Seasons

1 (4 episodes)

Status

Returning Series

Created by

Elisha Efrat, Erez Tzfadia, David Deri

Directed / written by

David Deri