Unpromised Land

In 1912 a group of Yemenite Jews followed their spiritual leader, Rabbi David Ben-Israel Tze'iri, to the Sea of Galilee, where they drained the swamps, built shelters, grew vegetables, and sold produce in Damascus. Then, in 1914, the land was given to a group of Ashkenazi pioneers, now celebrated as the founders of Kibbutz Kinneret. Filmmaker Ayelet Heller challenges the official Euro-Israeli narrative and gives voice to the Tze'iri clan and their descendants, who can finally mourn the loss of their sacred plot and confront those who erased the Yemenite presence from history.