REPORTING FOR DUTY: WHAT YOU WON’T SEE ON PBS
The following are excerpts from interviews conducted in Tel Aviv, Israel, in June 2009 for the NOW on PBS. NOW adapted FilmAt11′s original documentary, Reporting For Duty, for its episode, “Inside Israel’s Army”, which aired on July 17.
Israeli actor and IDF reserve army engineer OHAD KNOLLER speaks on the state of Israel today with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli settlement building, and Israel’s place in the world.
3: “Shallow Solutions”
4:”I Don’t Think Peace Will Come In This Generation”
5: “Why Not Build the Settlements?”
6: “I’m Not A Bully”
7: “Real War…”
8: “Only 60 Years Ago”
9: Dangers of Assimilating
10: “To Say Hypocrite Is Not Enough”
11: “The Same Conflict For 60 Years”
12: IDF Values
13: “Human Efforts”
14: “In The Process Of Founding”
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1: “A Place That Only One Can Be”
2: “I Don’t Want To Irritate Anyone”
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RONEN HERSHKOVITZ is an actor living in Tel Aviv. In addition to acting gigs, teaches drama at a high school, volunteers with a humanitarian organization, and, when necessary, serves as a medic in a reserve IDF unit. He saw action in the 2006 Lebanon War, an experience which affected him profoundly, leading to a reevaluation of some of his core beliefs about his coutnry and place in it. In the following series of posts we present excerpts from an interview with Ronen conducted in Tel Aviv in June, 2009.
1: “BUSINESS CARD”
2: “NOBODY LIKES WAR”
3: “YOU’LL LEAVE YOUR FAMILY AND YOU’LL GO TO WAR”
4: “CRAZY MR. HERSHKOVITZ”
5: “NOT ALL ARABS WANT TO KILL YOU”
6: “VERY DIFFICULT”
7: HOW WE FIGHT
8: “A VERY DIFFERENT WAR”
9: “I.O.U.”
10: Live From Lebanon
11: “Values”
