Hamechabel sheli . My Terrorist
Soros Documentary Fund In 1978, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, an El-Al flight attendant, is wounded in a terrorist attack in London in which another young Israeli woman and two of the attackers are killed. The attack strengthens her patriotism and soon after she fulfils a childhood dream of becoming an offic...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Cohen Gerstel Productions
2002
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:fa1e2b26-51eb-45ad-8b11-55a06496b2e1 |
| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
In 1978, Yulie Cohen Gerstel, an El-Al flight attendant, is wounded in a terrorist attack in London in which another young Israeli woman and two of the attackers are killed. The attack strengthens her patriotism and soon after she fulfils a childhood dream of becoming an officer in the Israeli air force. But in 2001, 23 years after she was attacked, her patriotism has now become a personal quest to break the cycle of hatred and fear. She begins a correspondence with the man who attacked her, still jailed inside an English prison. Farhad, it turns out, is a sensitive and intelligent man, remorseful of his past actions and seeking to make amends. Yulie becomes an advocate for his release. But with the Intifada raging again, fear is a constant in Israeli life, and public pressure against those advocating a peaceful solution are on the rise. A moving and personal account of one woman’s struggle to step outside the cycle of retribution, to understand, to forgive, and to make peace. |
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| Published: | 2002 |