Men of Israel

Men of Israel is a 2009 gay pornographic film released by Lucas Entertainment studio. Journalists from The Atlantic, Out Magazine and Yediot Aharonot noted it as a landmark film as the first pornographic movie shot on location with an allIsraeli cast while Tablet magazine and the Los Angeles Times remarked on it being the first to feature an allJewish cast. Director Michael Lucaswho is Jewish and obtained his Israeli citizenship made aliyah in 2009undertook the film as a bold move to promote Israeli culture and tourism and to counterbalance what he saw as biased portrayals of Israel in mainstream media.

His New York Blade columns on UltraOrthodox Judaism and Islam sparked a campus debate at Stanford University in February 2008 when Lucas was invited to give a speech to students. The New Republic and the New York City media have called him the Lion of Chelsea and the last of the New York porn moguls. He contends that his film Michael Lucas La Dolce Vita is the most expensive gay porn film ever made, with a budget of 250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos. In 2009, Lucas was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame, noted for his stature as an Alist director and performer.According to Lucas the intent of the film is to help viewers see Israel for its geographic features and history, and a place not much different than Prague or Palm Springs an inviting LGBT vacation destination where handsome men have sex. The global media has created an image of Israel as wartorn nation, which streets are lined with destroyed debris and crumbling ruins, wrote Lucas on the films site, Never are we shown Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Red Sea, the Dead Sea resorts, the beautiful beaches, the amazing architecture and the embracing culture that allows its citizens to thrive. ........

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