Expectations ran high for Miral, a Palestinian saga directed by Julian Schnabel, an award-winning American Jewish film director. Based on an…
Deir Yassin was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 people near Jerusalem. It had declared its neutrality during the civil war between Arab and Jewish Palestinians. It was depopulated after a massacre of around 107 of its residents on April 9, 1948 by paramilitaries from the Irgun and Lehi groups. The village buildings are today part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, an Israeli public psychiatric hospital.






















