He became one of the great poets of modern Israel.

"The foundation of modern Israel had a rational attitude, not a mystical, religious one," he said.

He was the first ultra-Orthodox leader who seemed to live in modern Israel.

"It has no place in modern Israel," he said.

That was a reference to a fateful choice made at the beginning of modern Israel's existence.

Some reviewers point to the film's political tone and social commentary about modern Israel.

After the founding of modern Israel in 1948, families from Yemen joined the village.

In those early years, not long after the war that attended the birth of modern Israel, gunfire often marred the cease-fire.

Many of the Jews in China later moved to found modern Israel.

Three separate films focus on independent women grappling with day-to-day life in modern Israel.