Sallah Shabati

Sallah Shabati Hebrew is a 1964 Israeli comedy film about the chaos of Israeli immigration and resettlement. This social satire placed the director Ephraim Kishon and producer Menahem Golan among the first Israeli filmmakers to achieve international success. It also introduced actor Chaim Topol Fiddler on the Roof to audiences worldwide.

The film begins with Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant, arriving with his family in Israel. Upon arrival he is brought to live in a maabara, or transit camp. He is given a broken down, one room shack in which to live with his family and spends the rest of the movie attempting to make enough money to purchase adequate housing. His moneymaking schemes are often comical and frequently satirize the political and social stereotypes in Israel of the time.Sallah Shabatis irreverent and mocking depiction of core Zionist institutions like the kibbutz provoked strong reactions among many filmgoers and critics. The kibbutzniks in the film resemble bureaucrats and are clearly divided into veterans with managing roles and simple workers, a division which contradicts the myth of Socialist solidarity and collectivist idealism. The kibbutzniks betray total indifference, furthermore, to the miserable conditions of the poor maabara next to them. ........

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