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- The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
- Shortly after the birth of the state of Israel, Susan (Diane Baker) arrives from America to see where her Zionist fiancé was killed in the early days of the Arab-Israeli War. There, she is surprised to find herself falling in love with Dan (Tom Bell), a man secretly supplying guns to the Israeli cause. After Dan is caught in a terrorist ambush, he is rescued and given shelter by a pacifist Palestinian named Daoud (David Opatoshu), who happens to be the father of Dan's attacker.
- A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to audition for parts in the "film" (cinema 'verite' style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to void apartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing Zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality.
- Daliah sneaks into a cargo ship bound to Israel. The sailors will do anything to hide from the though captain her and catch her attention.
- A charming film about a group of children on a kibbutz in Israel who foil a plot by spies to blow up a Mirage jet during a military parade.
- A group of children embrace an eccentric old man, and working together, build a ship on a rooftop.
- The Simhon family was a radio show on Army Radio in the 1960's. The show was broadcast three times a week in 10 minutes each. In 1964, this film adaptation was produced.