Season 1 • Episode 22
LatestThe story of Israel's first fifty years of statehood, TKUMA brings to the screen the tragedies and joyful milestones of Israel's first half century: the ingathering of the exiles as the fledgling state becomes a haven for Jews around the word. Dramatic, personal accounts and documentary footage of the wars fought over five decades, along with rare behind-the-scenes insights into Israel's efforts to make peace. Who is a Jew Israel wrestles with its national identity. Israel's economic revolution takes the country from the orange to the computer chip in a few years. The people, the places, the spirit of Israel in its first fifty years.
Direction
Esther Dar weaves personal testimony into brutal historical clarity.
Editing
Rare archival footage hits like a time-traveling gut punch.
Creator
Esther Dar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
TKUMA aired during the Oslo Accords' collapse, making its optimism feel almost haunting in retrospect.
Igal Naor later played a Saddam Hussein double in 'The Devil's Double' — his voice here carries that same uncanny authority.
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