Gaza Sderot - Life in spite of everything - Time

Episode 40 // Gaza // Conclusion

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Abu Khalil, Heba, Khalaf, Madeha and Sefian talk for Gaza/Sderot last episode.

Episode 40 // Sderot // Assessments

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Dreams and future intentions for everyone.

Episode 39 // Gaza // On journalists and shoes

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

While fixing a hi-fi, Khalaf and a friend talk about the shoe attack against George W. Bush.

Episode 39 // Sderot // A real wedding is Moroccan

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

For her daughter, Simi organized the Hena ceremony. Without it, the wedding would not be a true Moroccan style wedding.

Episode 38 // Gaza // We are surrounded on all sides

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Two fishermen tell us about their difficulties to sail out.

Episode 38 // Sderot // Southern anger goes to Tel Aviv

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Avi's first show in Tel Aviv. He is not sure the hedonisitic Tel Avivians understand his anger.

Episode 37 // Gaza // Waiting for the end of the truce

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The ambulance men are having some relaxing moments. Male humor.

Episode 37 // Sderot // The merchant from Hebron

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Yafa's cheerful weekly meeting with Palestinian merchants from Hebron is suddenly interrupted...

Episode 36 // Gaza // To leave is to loose one's soul

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

In the end, the strawberries harvest is lost. How can she go on producing if she cannot export her harvest? Should she just go?

Episode 36 // Sderot // Should I stay or should I go?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Haviv's wife cannot take it anymore. She wants to leave Sderot with the children. But for Haviv, it's out of the question.

Episode 35 // Gaza // Meat for the Aid

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Amjad looking for a calf for Aid's sacrifice day.

Episode 35 // Sderot // Show fever

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The premiere is for tonight. Daniele is late, "pressure". But all well that ends well.

Episode 34 // Gaza // Aid days

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

By the light of a lamp of oil, Sefian and his wife ask their children what gifts they would like for the feasts.

Episode 34 // Sderot // Sason closes the shutters

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

After his election defeat, come the debts and the threats of being sued. Sason has decided to stop everything.

Episode 33 // Gaza // Volley ball game

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Volley ball game : Heba and her friends chat. Joking in hard times.

Episode 33 // Sderot // I quit boxing

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Andre has decided to quit boxing. But looking at the fights, and after his coach made fun of him, who knows what will come next ?

Episode 32 // Gaza // Creating a local currency

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Khalaf and his friends around a fire : jokes and songs.

Episode 32 // Sderot // Fishing to forget

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Haviv fishes, respires and gets inspired at the seaside.

Episode 31 // Gaza // We are broke here

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

At a woodfire light, Madeha speaks with her other son in Denmark and tells him about her daily life.

Episode 31 // Sderot // Yafa gets wider

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Yafa returns to her big salon. Small talk with the customers, especially about people who left Sderot

Episode 30 // Gaza // We'll have to get used to the dark

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A family night around a candle. Abu Khalil's mother remembers old times.

Episode 30 // Sderot // A first love is never forgotten

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Simi and her husband tell about their first, second meeting.

Episode 29 // Gaza // Gaza-Amman via Internet

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Amjad is on the verge of chatting on Internet with his family. But in Gaza, nothing is to be taken for granted.

Episode 29 // Sderot // My daughter is in the army now

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Haviv's daughter announces him she is drafted in a week. She has been dreaming about it. He's not that enthusiastic.

Episode 28 // Gaza // Heba : shopping before the exams

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Some days before her exam, Heba and her friend go shopping.Not easy to prepare exams without electricity.

Episode 28 // Sderot // Avi pushes his CD at the radio station

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Coming to sing live on IDF's radio station, the most popular in Israel, Avi tries do push his CD. Not very successfully.

Episode 27 // Gaza // At the barber's

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sefian has his beard trimmed. Jokes and humor with the usual customers.

Episode 27 // Sderot // Let's play Red Alert

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Daniele is babysitting in a sheltered playground. She plays "Red Alert" with the children

Episode 26 // Gaza // Madeha's anger

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Hope for a border's opening, through which she could export her products, is vanishing. As well as Madeha's hope for an improvement.

Episode 26 // Sderot // Running between 2 shelters

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Resolved to make it to the boxing championship, Andre resumes his daily running regime. His only problem : planning the route ahead according to bomb shelters

Episode 25 // Gaza // All that for a coffee

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Abu Khalil has a hard time making himself a coffee. He calls his wife for help.

Episode 25 // Sderot // Proposing in a shelter

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Avi and his wife Laura tell how they fell in love. The proposal was in a shelter...

Episode 24 // Gaza // Amjad in the line

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Time for Amjad to buy his daily bread. A buy that might last an eternity.

Episode 24 // Sderot // When a reptile turns into a butterfly

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The sculptor Haviv has conceived a reptile made of concrete for a playground. It is a symbol of Protection and cradling inside, but also of hope that, one day, it will turn into a butterfly

Episode 23 // Gaza // Let the party begin

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Electricity problems have been fixed. Khalaf Qassim's group finally gets up on stage.

Episode 23 // Sderot // Happy days of coexistence

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Yafa, her brother and customers remember the happy days when people visited each other between Gaza and Sderot, when there was no fear.

Episode 22 // Gaza // A noisy generator

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Without electricity, organizers use the generator. But it's too noisy, so they decide to put it elsewhere.

Episode 22 // Sderot // At training at last

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Andre finally made it to training. But his coach informs himhe won't g o to the championship

Episode 21 // Gaza // Madeha looking for crates

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Madeha has to sell her onions on the market. But the crates aren't here yet

Episode 21 // Sderot // Daniele is rehearsing

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Daniele is at a rehearsal. The play is about daily lives in Sderot. The premiere is on November 27th. Show fever.

Episode 20 // Gaza // Closed checkpoints : no good for diabetics.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Abu Khalil and his family are invited to the World Diabetes. Abu Khalil's daughter is diabetic. Topic of the day : the difficulty of accessing to diabetis care. Abu Khalil makes a public speech addresse to the representative of UNWRA, the UN office in charge of refugees.

Episode 20 // Sderot // Hope

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Avi records songs that express the desire of life, in spite of everything, with a group of young people from Sderot

Episode 19 // Gaza // Woodfire cooking at the Bakers'

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Without gas to cook, the Bakers switched to wood, just as the whole neighborhhod in Gaza

Episode 19 // Sderot // The day after defeat

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

After his heavy local election defeat, Sason is badly hurt. Will he keep on writing letters for the needy, or will he turn his back on those who betrayed him?

Episode 18 // Gaza // Amjad's family has a party

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

With no electric power at home, everyody gathers at the near park to party

Episode 18 // Sderot // Yafa and the media

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Outside, a demonstration against the Kassams that have started falling again. Bitterness towards the medias that look for blood

Episode 17 // Gaza // Heba with her girlfriends

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Her girlfriends visit Heba after her tonsil operation. She probes her voice with a song. Talks about projects

Episode 17 // Sderot // Andre the boxer as a barman

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Andre starts his new job. Once again, he misses a training. His coach doesn't like it

Episode 16 // Gaza // Abu Khalil and human suffering

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

As he is working out, Abu Khalil tells how he is haunted by horrors he sees in his job as an ambulance man.

Episode 16 // Sderot // Simi and his disabled son

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

One of Simi's sons is "special". Concerns about the future.

Episode 15 // Gaza // Desperately seeking for a car axle

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Amjad is desperately looking for a spare part for his car. And cannot stand the shortages caused by the borders' closure any more.

Episode 15 // Sderot // Elections and lies

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The results are coming in. Disappointing. Sason : "I've been lied a lot".

Episode 14 // Gaza // Rehearsal under tension

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The band rehearses, one day after a show has been cancelled because of an Israeli incursion that killed six people.

Episode 14 // Sderot // Election day, in Sderot :

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

D Day in Sderot. Sason, a small independent candidate, forgot to bring ballot papers and can't find his ID. Yafa promises him her vote, but...

Episode 13 // Gaza // A plant is to be taken care of like a child

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

For Madiha, it's time to cover her strawberries. She protects them and talks to them as to her children, gone away

Episode 13 // Sderot // Red alert for the children

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Daniele helps her sister to move into a new apartment. The most important is that it has a sheltered room. Her nephew has traumatic memories from Kassams

Episode 12 // Gaza // Heba at the clinic

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Heba is going to have her toosils taken out. At the clinic, she talks about people who have suffered or even died because of the closure.

Episode 12 // Sderot // Andre the boxer and his little sister

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Again, Andre missed a training. But he found a job. He takes care of his little sister, whom he teaches a bit of maths and some boxing.

Episode 11 // Gaza // No entry for a pregnant woman

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Abu Khalil rescues a pregnant woman who was refused entry at rhe border, in spite of a due permit

Episode 11 // Sderot // Family story and false alarm

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

While Simi is cooking she recaps her early days as a young immigrant, the hardships and the regrets. She concludes with love that her country is like no other, At that very second a red alert is heard and Simi and the family duck to the floor. False alarm...

Episode 10 // Gaza // Medicines in bad shape in Gaza

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Dr Amjad checks medicines to be delivered to World's Doctors, often stuck or damaged at the border by Israeli security forces.

Episode 10 // Sderot // at Yafa's home, upstairs and downstairs

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A visit at Yafa's home, which she is very proud of. Upstairs, the kids' rooms. Downstairs, the shelter in case of Kassams, "a whole house". The son is singing. Friday night's atmosphere

Episode 9 // Gaza // Surprise party for the champion.

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Everyone came to celebrate Ahmed Quffah' s success as his achivements are now in the Guinness Book Records. The only one who was not aware of this celebration was the happy awardee!

Episode 9 // Sderot // Simi at the market

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Simi goes for her weekly outing besides the health clinic) : shopping in the market. She meets friends and family (her son, "always on time to help"), and tells us about her rocket-alarm route

Episode 8 // Gaza // Heba at coffee shop

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Heba, a young journalist, documents Palestinian youth distress under siege in her films, how they kill time and dream of emigrating from Gaza,

Episode 8 // Sderot // Making it by boxing

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Andre, boxer, 3 times Israel's champion, must practice despite his work (currently, he doesn't find any) and Rel Alerts. In 6 weeks, Israel' championship.

Episode 7 // Gaza // A little violinist

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Khalaf Qasem sent his son to Uncle Abu Ahmed to teach him violin. But for the child, if borders open, he will find nobody else to teach him...

Episode 7 // Sderot // Sason's campaign

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Grocery store owner Sason Sara is tired of trying to make a difference from behind the counter: he is running for mayor, launching a self-funded campaign. He's confident he can win, but even his most avid supporter says he's got "no campaigners, no inner circle, no workers, nothing".

Episode 6 // Gaza // Just an ordinary kidney failure

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Abu Khalil, the ambulance driver, is bringing someone with a kidney failure. He just hopes this day will be a normal ordinary day.

Episode 6 // Sderot // Daniele's dream

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Daniele Mordechai, 16, decides to leave her religious school in Sderot to persue her dream of becoming an actress. Her new school, she hopes, will support her as she juggles between school and work: Daniel is part of a satrical play written by youth from Sderot, comically describing life with Kassam Rockets.

Episode 5 // Gaza // A Kung Fu player

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Ahmed believed that the Guinness Book was going to change his life... But bitter reality makes him feel hopeless...

Episode 5 // Sderot // Avi goes to his 3rd wedding

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Only a month after getting married for the first time, Avi is about to travel to the U.S to get married again-- to the same woman, Laura, a film maker from California. The first wedding was in Sderot, and Laura's parents almost refused to come, fearing rockets. Now, Avi is going to another wedding celebration, in California.

Episode 4 // Gaza // An optimistic Fisherman

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sefian is in better mood. Fishing has just been good. But going fishing still entails taking risks with the Israel navy.

Episode 4 // Sderot // Tonight, 30 guests to feed

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Simi Zubib, 65, says she was probably born in the kitchen. She still makes the traditional Morrocan dishes she learned from her mother. But tonight, not all her 11 children will show upâ€”one is afraid to come to rocket-hit Sderot.

Episode 3 // Gaza // Strawberries in risky times

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Madeha is worried about her annual harvest because of the continued closure of borders. She faces the risk of having her land ruined any time ...

Episode 3 // Sderot // Yafa and the Kassams

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Women flock to Yafa's hair salon to enjoy her touch but also her company. Over a cup of coffee, they talk about hair colors and clothes, but also about survival in the world of 'Red Alarm'

Episode 2 // Gaza // A dry fisherman

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sefian is a fisherman from Gaza. With no gasoline, he cannot fish in the sea. He meets with colleagues to kill time.

Episode 2 // Sderot // The grocer who wants to change the world

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sason the grocer, a former school teacher, writes letters for the needy, helping them with various problems, from settling a divorce to fixing their rocket-torn homes

Episode 1 // Gaza // A wedding without gasoline

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

No gasoline nor diesel, but Khalaf must take the transportation to celebrate the wedding...

Episode 1 // Sderot // Sderot Blues

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

In an underground shelter turned into a music studio, 31 years old Avi Vaknin plays 'Square of the Fools', a single he recently released to the radio. An up and coming musician, Avi writes from and about Sderotâ€”its beauty and its pain.