Moshe Dayan

"My Father My Lord" is an impressive first feature that stands out for its emotional qualities, its ambition and its brevity. In this day of endless epics, this 73-minute Israeli film manages to do a lot with very little time. Written and directed by...

Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone. "I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!" Lockwood was...

His long political journey took Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from a role as warrior to peacemaker, from responsibility for the worst atrocity in modern Middle East history to the first unilateral withdrawal from settlements he had helped build....

Behind the sandstone walls, down a narrow road from a two-lane highway cutting through Israel's sprawling urban coastal Plain of Sharon is hidden a man-made oasis of orange groves, avocado trees and sheep pens. This is Kfar Malal, a cooperative farm...

"Time of Favor" is one of the most successful, provocative and intensely contemporary of Israeli films, so much so that to watch it is to feel the country having a passionate argument with itself. Israel's entry for best foreign language Oscar and the...

LOD AIR FORCE BASE, Israel - Near the end of the space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated mission, American astronaut David Brown sent a short e-mail to the wife and children of his Israeli crewmate, Ilan Ramon. Moved that Ramon had honored his Jewish religion...

Sometimes a movie interests us less for its artistry than for the world it opens up. A case in point: "Time of Favor," which won six Israeli Academy Awards in 2000. Despite the heavy acclaim in its native country, this first-time feature by U.S.-born...