USA Premiere
Sunday, April 3, 4:30 pm
Filmmaker Present: Orna Ben Dor
Israel, 2004, 60 min,
Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Orna Ben Dor

Filmmaker Orna Ben Dor’s new documentary focuses on five women whose husbands and or children were among the fifteen Israeli civilians killed in the suicide bombing of the Matza Restaurant in Haifa, Israel, on March 31, 2002. Ben Dor’s is a sensitive tribute to the strength and beauty of these Israeli women, including Carmit Ron who lost her husband, Aviel, her seventeen-year old son Ofer, and her twenty-one year old daughter Anat, who were eating lunch together at the sidewalk café.

Speaker: Lawrence D. Lowenthal, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee Greater Boston Chapter

Sponsors: The Consulate General of Israel to New England, the American Jewish Committee Greater Boston Chapter, and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies' Boston-Haifa Connection