Giv'a 24 Eina Ona (1955)

Directors

Thorold Dickinson

Cast

Edward Mulhare, Michael Wager, Margalit Oved, Arik Lavie, Michael Shillo, Haya Harareet, Eric Greene, Stanley Preston, Haim Eynav, Zalman Lebiush, Azaria Rapaport, Abraham Barzilai, Shoshana Damari, Shoshana Duer, Shraga Friedman, Leon Gilboa, David Hershkovitz, Burton Most, David Ram, Ruth Rappaport, Mati Raz, Yossi Yadin, Arie Zeidmann

The story

In 1948, just four hours and 45 minutes before a ceasefire takes effect, Captain Yehuda Berger instructs four volunteers - James Finnegan, an Irish former British policeman (who fell in love with a Jewish woman named Miriam Miszrahi); Allan Goodman, a tourist from the USA who fell in love with the struggle to found Israel; David Airan; and (at her insistence) Esther Hadassi (a Yemeni Jewish woman) - to take and hold the strategic "Hill 24", one of a number of hills dominating the highway into Jerusalem. Afterward, Finnegan relates how he first met Berger in 1946, two years before the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, while serving as a…

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