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The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

With the ever-changing landscape of the Middle East, one thing remains constant through the decades: the unending struggle of the state of Israel to live at peace with its neighbors.   In the new and absorbing documentary The Prime Ministers, produced to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the 1973 war between Israel and Egypt,  history comes vividly alive through some familiar and more often rare archival footage of  the statesmen who guided Israel through some of its most turbulent and troubled times to the present day.

Director Richard Trank has done an extraordinary job in compiling and editing thousands of hours of footage of such well-known figures as Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Levi  Eshkol and Menachim Begin.   The fervor, passion and commitment of these Zionist leaders comes across in every frame of this film which was produced by Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

As narrated on-screen by the author of the original book, Yehuda Avner  guides us back through the all too omnipresent past and present history of  terrorist bombings, plane hijackings and the heartbreaking and seemingly endless cycle of failed attempts to broker a lasting peace that would allow the state of Israel to  just simply exist amongst those nations determined to see her annihilated. 

The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers opens in various theatres all over Los Angeles beginning the week of November 6th.

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