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Sallah (Sallah Shabati)
The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during 'Operation Magic Carpet' - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
1923 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
9 September 1935, Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]
22 July 1939, Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]
March 19, 1931 in Tel Aviv, Israel
December, 1929 in Jaffa, Palestine [now Tel Aviv, Israel]
April 23, 1941 in Nahalat Yehuda, Palestine
June 9, 1932 in Bulgaria
December 13, 1939 in Cairo, Egypt
September 6, 1942 in Israel
