Adora
Nava Mizrachi
Israel | 2005 | 52mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Danielle Sheffi was shot and killed as she sat in her bed on a Saturday morning in the small settlement of Adora in the south of the Hebron Mountains. Two local Palestinians went from house to house and shot everyone in sight. Several weeks later, Sela Amar, a released army soldier, was arrested and charged with being a member of a network that traded in weapons and ammunition with Palestinians from the Hebron area. Sela’s younger brother Roi was arrested as well.

The people of Adora found themselves dealing with two events of unmanageable and devastating magnitude. Those who remained had to deal with the treachery of the sons whose greed had led them to exchange weapons for money with the Palestinians. The circumstantial connection between the Palestinian bullets that hit the residents of Adora and the bullets sold by the men of Adora to the Palestinians made the situation almost inconceivably monstrous.

This documentary follows the events and the people of Adora for almost two years and in particular Shiri Sheffi, mother of the murdered Danielle, and Jacqueline Amar, her neighbor, mother of Sela and Roi Amar, who were tried and sentenced to prison for their part in the weapons deal.

Will be screened with First Lesson In Peace