Ruah Kaddim – Chronika Marokait

The story of Moroccan Jewry in Israel is presented through six characters from the second generation of immigrants to Israel, telling their personal, stories about the process of absorption, a process that was accompanied by racism and oppression. The film moves from the dramatic events beginning in 1948 and up to the present: the mass immigration, the selection, the period in the transit camps, settlement of the border areas and the creation of development towns, the protests, the Wadi Salib riots, the demonstrations of the Black Panthers, the creation of Shas, and up to Ehud Barak’s plea for forgiveness.The new immigrants from Morocco who obeyed their longings to return to Zion, believed that in Israel they would find a historical safe haven, but instead found themselves thrown into a crucible that threatened to eliminate them entirely. The film raises questions of « oriental » identity as part of the broader question of Israeli identity. It is a piercing and critical look at the failure of sionism and the left in Israel over the past 50 years.