
Israel: The Enemy Within?
Israel's greatest threat, this film argues, comes less from outside its borders than from the fractures inside them. It tracks the widening split between secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox communities who reject any compromise with Arabs, alongside the growing pull of the extreme right as zealous new immigrants settle in and militant settlers push deeper into Palestinian territory. The film covers the social protest movement that erupted the previous summer over corruption, inflation, and cuts to public services, a wave that brought roughly half a million people into the streets, the largest demonstrations in the country's history. It sets that domestic unrest against the continuing occupation of the Palestinian territories and what it describes as an apartheid system affecting Palestinians living inside Israel. Interviews and footage move between protest camps, settlements, and religious communities to show a state pulled in several directions at once. The question running through it: can Israel actually be secular, democratic, and Jewish all at the same time?