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Following Matzpen
In 1997,
after years of stories and newspaper items, I decided, as a
student at Tel Aviv University, to write a seminar on Matzpen.
At the end of that year the Hebrew University held a conference
to mark 35 years since the organization was formed. I went there
to document the conference with a camcorder, and found myself
launched into a journey to follow people and ideas that until
then I didn't know much about. I made the film because I met
Israelis, most of them native-born, whose personality, their
command of Hebrew, their abilities and connections, could have
taken them to any position they might have wanted in Israeli
society - but their values and their courage to stick to them
and act accordingly put them on a collision course with the
whole society in which they grew up. To me, younger than them by
30-40 years, born when Matzpen was already starting to break up,
it was a great privilege to know these people, to thank them,
and above all to recall the ideas for which they fought.
Eran
Torbiner, April 2005 |
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