Meshulam

Yahud 1994. A minor construction dispute on Passover Eve turns into a live drama that occupies the whole country during 50 days. Rabbi Uzi Meshulam, a popular and charismatic Yemenite leader, barricades himself in his house with his armed followers, demanding to set up a commission of inquiry for the disappearance of thousands of Yemenite children during the first years of the State of Israel. While the media was lunging itself onto the story, politicians were making visits to the house in Yahud, and the police was threatening to violently break into the site, the Yemenite children’s affair rose on the public agenda with unprecedented force, revealing wounds that were never healed and stirring historical and political conflicts.