As for the next docu, I should announce in advance that I am biased. Countless stories from my father's home who immigrated from Iraq and hours of Arabic music played at home and featured in the docu, made me love him and recommend him. But above all – the never-ending thirst to know the hidden stories about the contribution of the Jewish community from Arab countries, and the price of cultural oppression it paid along the way. Let's start with the fact that "The Orchestra" is a wonderful docu.
Through one radio frequency, he tells endless stories about the fascinating world of the Aleppos, the Baghdadis and the Messers – media and cultural figures who were at the forefront of the war against the Arab enemy. It was called "The Orchestra" because that's what the Arab media called the Israeli propaganda orchestra. At the beginning of the 50s, Jews immigrated from Arab countries, and by order of the government, Kol Israel in Arabic was established, a radio station that is a psychological warfare machine that positively maddens the peoples of the surrounding countries and drives the rulers crazy.
On another frequency, it tells the story of the music stars from Arab countries, who one day descended from Igra Rama and landed in Bira Amiqta, and were forced to lose their greatness and engage in black work. The most interesting frequency is the psychological warfare broadcasts used by the state, hits by Abdel Wahab and um Kulthum that served as codes for spies across the border, broadcasters who also relayed messages to the Iraqi MiG pilot who betrayed his country, to the broadcasts of the frustrating hit "Nasser is waiting for Rabin, CIA."
All this wonderful work, which is also packaged as a radio show, is conducted by Ofer Pinchasov, who reaches out to some of the exciting people who made history, Jews and Arabs, and manages to gather the Jewish and Arab broadcasters (from those who remained) who tell about the methods of operation, and the radio legends that all over the Arab world have become a voice that carries "the truth" from Israel. They take out plastic bags of old cassettes instead of the recordings of the fascinating story being resurrected in the museum. Maybe it's not too late to do that.
The Red Prince
The film "The Mossad and the Curse of Lillehammer," which premiered last night on HOT, tells the story of the well-known fiasco in the town of Lillehammer, Norway, does not make assumptions for the Mossad and does not say, "It's going to be okay, we have the biggest story of failure in the history of the Israeli Mossad."
It's amazing how 50 years later, and after endless documents surrounding the event, it is possible to innovate. The target of the Mossad was the "Red Prince," Ali Hassan Salameh, the last card in the series of assassinations of Israeli athletes in Munich. In practice, Mossad officials killed the poor waiter Ahmad Boushiki.
While the film reveals every detail of the purpose of the sin of arrogance that accompanied the failed operation, it lays out the sequel to the curse that accompanied the operation's participants. The personal stories of some of the squad members included lonely lives and early deaths.
As part of the campaign to eliminate the Israeli sin of arrogance, the film also draws a direct line between the smugness that led to the failure of Lillehammer and the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, which, as we know, also sat under the same familiar Israeli disease.
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