TIMES OF ISRAEL
In new film, Tel Aviv leftist picks up and moves to a West Bank settlement
by Jacob Magid
May 22, 2018

In one of the first scenes in Iris Zaki’s new documentary, “Unsettling,” the Tel Aviv film director taps into a unique dissonance being lived out by residents of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa. Sitting at a small circular table she sets up outside the town’s minimarket, Zaki explains to her new friend Matanya that the reluctance of many locals to engage with her stems from their discomfort with addressing the political reality in which they are living. READ MORE

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