Yehoram Gaon Movies

A woman seeking to embrace both her faith and her culture finds that neither is as simple as she imagined in this drama from Israel. It's 1981, and Rachel (Michaela Eshet) has become a single mother of two teenage girls after the unexpected death of her husband. Looking for a new identity as she starts her life again, Rachael decides to pull up roots and leave Jerusalem for a new settlement on the West Bank. Rachel's daughters have become acclimated to city life and are unenthusiastic about their mother's decision, but that doesn't change her mind. However, Rachel's neighbors soon make their own feelings felt; they obviously aren't happy with the prospect of a single mother living in their community, and she soon finds herself subjected with any number of matchmaking opportunities from fiftysomething men. More seriously, daughters Esti (Maya Maron) and Tami (Hani Furstenberg) don't feel safe or accepted in their new environment, especially Tami, who has a traumatic experience while on a camping trip with a Zionist youth organization. Campfire was the winner five Israeli Academy Awards in 2005, including Best Picture. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The film is also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

This documentary is a celebration of pop singer/actor Yehoram Gaon's love affair with the city of his birth. He narrates this combination travelogue, history, and poetic hymn of praise. In one dramatic sequence we see the process by which a gentile woman seals her conversion to Judaism. A notable feature of the film is the many names, synonyms and ways used to allude to Jerusalem which color the narrative. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A widow struggles to buck tradition and tries to find a new life in this Israeli drama. Tamar lost her husband to the Six Day War, and now wants to put her pain in the past and find a new love. Unfortunately, her late husband's friends and family insist that she adhere to the old customs by remaining in mourning for the rest of her life to keep his memory alive. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A young boy is lonely when his family moves into a Jewish settlement in what will one day become Israel. His only playmate is his sister, as the two attend a small school set up for the children of the settlers. The community votes to bring in a doctor instead of another teacher for the older children, and the boy's parents send him to a Christian school run by missionaries. The move causes the neighbors to shun the family and accuse the couple of turning their backs on their heritage and religion. The boy returns home, but his mother is sick with typhoid fever and he runs away. He is befriended by children his own age at an agricultural school before his is discovered and returned to his family. The boy pleads to return to the farming school where he has finally made friends in this feature specially made for children and those who have not forgotten what it was like to be one. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

This concert release features an extended live set by Israeli pop superstar Yehoram Gaon. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi