the promise girls on a gap year go to isreal

The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.

Rachel, a juvenile woman in her late twenties steals her younger sister’s passport and all-expense-paid youth-group ticket to Israel to chase down her ex-boyfriend in Tel Aviv. But after illegally entering the country, Rachel finds herself unable to escape her sister’s organized tour.

Over half of Israel's youth takes a backpacking trip after finishing mandatory army service. Vacillating between extremes, this unique trip represents a transformation in Israeli culture.

Non-Israeli Jewish kids join a summer excursion to the Holy Land, where they are encouraged to take pride in their roots.

When a five girls are brought to Israel from Russia for prostitution, one of them (Jana) loses her bag near the Israeli border. Zeltzer, a farm owner from Negev, finds it and sees Jana's photos...

An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening in their lives since their paths parted while we get a glimpse of different Israelis.

Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. The frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank sees the young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories, and share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping.

Best buddies embark on their long-awaited "Spring Break" adventure in the vacation city of Eilat, Israel to live the American dream as they see it. But this night they are going to face the fact they are not sharing the same fantasies.

Documentarians Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg traveled to Israel to interview Palestinian and Israeli kids ages 11 to 13, assembling their views on living in a society afflicted with violence, separatism and religious and political extremism. This 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary culminates in an astonishing day in which two Israeli children meet Palestinian youngsters at a refugee camp.