10—THE BULLETIN—Friday, August 24, 1973
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JERUSAELM—The Yitzhak and Leah Rabin forest near Baram (Lebanese border) was inaugurated with contributions by
American Jewry as a token of appreciation to Rabin for "Jewish and Lsraeli pride" while Israel's Ambassador to the U.S.
Made-in-lsrael film lauds WW I intelligence network
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JERUSALEM — The story of Nili, the pro-British intelligence network organized by Aaron Aaronsohn during World War I to help free Palestine from the Turks, is the subject of a $1,000,-000 film to be made here for international distribution.
Its Hollywood-based writer-director, Henry Jaglom, says it will show the still unrecognized debt that modern Israel owes to this brave group of men and women.
Jaglom, who recently directed Orson Welles in "A Safe Place" for Columbia, says "that the idea of a film on the Nili was "sold" to him by Meira Dor, a former employee of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, who had done research on the Nili and thought it would make a good film. Her husband Sabi had studied with Jaglom at the Actors' School in New York some 10 years earlier.
The film will revolve round the five leaders of Nili - Aaron Aaronsohn, the brilliant agronomist who discovered wild wheat and whose experimental station at Athlit served as cover for the . group (as well as the receiving point for tlie gold which saved the country's 60,000 Jews from starvation); Aaronsohn's courageous and beautiful sister Sarah who was tortured by the Turks and committed suicide rather than be forced into betraying the group; Yosef Lishansky and Naaman Belkind, who were both hanged by the Turks . in the notorious Damascus Square; and Avshalom Feinberg, whose remains were fbuhdiin the Sinai 1 Desert after the Six Day War and reinterred on Mount Herzl.
A documentary thread running through the film will be the occasional commentaries of Nili survivor Eytan Belkind, now 76, who was imprisoned in Damascus together with his brother and Lishansky but who managed to escape.
BY JACK LEON The Jerusalem Post
The full story of this small group of heroic men and women — whose work was even opposed by the understandably apprehensive leadership of the Yishuv at the time — has not been officially told to this day.
Jaglom is optimistic that his researchers working in London on the British Foreign Office's newly-opened archives of the period will throw more light on aspects still shrouded in mystery.
Jaglom would like to have either Candice Bergen or Liv Ullmann in the central female role of Sarah, but the cast will consist mainly of local actors, with Sabi Dor already slated for the part of Avshalom Feinberg.
The film crew will be entirely Israeli, with Jerusalemite Ilan Rosenberg as chief cameraman. Jaglom has prepared a rough outline of the, script and back in America he will look for a writer to help him put the screenplay together.
Jaglom recently spent three weeks in Israel doing preliminary shooting "and generally setting the Nil! project in motion."
Jaglom has been "very emotionally attached" to Israel since he first came there in 1959. His latest visit to Israel was his twelfth. It will be followed by several more before the main shooting on the Nili production starts.
By coincidence, it was the attachment to Israel that led Jaglom to an expanded career in the cinema, whicli included directing. Previouslyj an actor and writer, he came to Israel in June, 1967, hoping to offer his services in some capacity. But, as with so many other volunteers, the Six Day War was over by the time he arrived.
So, with a journalistic friend, he travelled the length and breadth of the newly occupied territories, shooting 25 hours of film with an 8 mm. Kodak. Though this was
Hebrew U. expands research on Isroeli-Arab relations
JERUSALEM — New activities of the Hebrew university's "Mount Scopus Centre for Research on Palestinian* Arabs and Arab-Israeli Relatipns" were reported at a recent press conference at the Truman Research Institute on the University's Mount Scopus campus.
Functioning in its present form for over a year, the Centre amalgamates the research unit on Israeli-Arab relations which operated in the Truman Institute since 1968 and the Research Centre on Palestinian Arabs in the University's Institute of Asian and African Studies.
Prof. Moshe Ma'oz, centre dir-rector and head of the university's institute of Asian and African studies, told correspondents of present research projects of the Centre, including studies of the municipal system of the West Bank under Jordanian and Israel control and a work on the development of the Palestinian Arab national movement.
He also discussed future plans concerning research and documentation.
Dr. Yehoshaphat Harkabi, senior lecturer in international relations and Middle Eastern studies, reported on the Centre's first publication, a 3,000 title bibliography, in Arabic, of Arabic books and publications on the Arab-Israeli conflict and a new Hebrew bulletin to include material concerning the Arab fedayeen movement.
Co-ordinator. of the.Centre, Shai
Lachman, said that material from abroad is being collected and classified, including reports of Arab activities in Europe. For example, the Centre has material on activities of Arab students and lalK>rers in Europe during and after recent Arab terrorist actions. This material will be registered and eventually computerized.
One of the major projects of the Centre, he announced, is the computarization of the files of the "Arab Executive Committee" (the leadership of the Arab Palestinian movement in the 1920s and early 1930s). The long-range project, started in April 1972, is conducted in co-operation with the Israel State Archives.
Studies on the Arab educational system and on the Druze family in Israel are among other projects.
Panel discussions, research seminars, and exhibits are part of the Centre's program as well.
the first time he had used a camera of any kind, the three-hour film which he produced was much admired by friends.
Among them was Burt Schneider, who had just finished producing Columbia's "Easy Rider," and asked him to edit the piece.
His debut in movie editing was followed by a brief meteoric career as a movie actor, culminating in a starring role with Orson Welles in "The Other Side of the Wind," which Welles directed.
The roles were reversed when Jaglom made his debut as a director with "A Safe Place," featuring Welles, Jack Nicholson and Tuesday Weld. Jaglom himself wrote the screenplay of what he describes as "a modern parable, or midrash, incorporating some of the stories of the Chasidic scholar Rabbi Nachman of Brat-slav."
Welles plays a Jewish character for the first time of his screen career in this movie, which was shown at the latest Cannes Film Festival.
A tall, intense man of 35, Jaglom is always being asked how a "greener" like him had the "chutzpa" to direct the great Orson Welles.
He recounts: "The first day's shooting certainly went very badly, with Welles inost distrustful of my ideas. By the end of the day, when we were really hostile to each other, he told me in front of the whole crew that I was the most arrogant director he had ever worked with, and that I should not forget this was my first attempt at directing.
"I replied that he should hot/ forget that Citizen Kane had been the first movie he had directed. "Welles smiled broadly and agreed. From then on he was a terrific help to me and cooperated to the utmost at all times."
Jaglom's younger brother, Michael, has been in Israel for the past seven years; he runs a jewellery gallery in Haifa.
They are both nephews of World Wizo President Raya Jaglom.
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