Golda Meir Hadassah to Present Award-Winning Film ‘The Case for Israel’

Alan Dershowitz Golda Meir Hadassah will present “The Case for Israel,” a documentary in which Alan Dershowitz rises in defense of the Jewish state, at the Milton and Betty Katz JCC in Margate, on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2 p.m.

In the awardwinning film, Dershowitz, the distinquished Harvard Law School professor and outspoken champion of individual rights, takes viewers through the process of building a case to support the Jewish right to the land of Israel.

“The time has come for a proactive defense of Israel to be offered in the court of public opinion,”says Dershowitz.

The 77-minute film by Doc Emet Productions, which premiered at the 24th annual Haifa International Film Festival, presents evidence from leading historians, analysts, legal experts and leaders on both sides of the political spectrum to make the definitive case for Israel’s legitimacy and right to selfdefense.

Dershowitz argues forcefully that real peace in the Middle East can only occur when the Palestinians, Arabs and their allies finally value the creation of a Palestinian state more than they oppose the presence of a Jewish state. Through incisive conversations with 28 commentators – ranging from Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Ambassador Dennis Ross and former Israel Supreme Court President Aharon Barak to Benjamin Netanyahu and senior analysts Caroline Glick and Natan Sharanksy – Dershowitz refutes deeply entrenched misperceptions about Israel’s history, Jewish claims to a homeland, individual rights under Israel’s democratic system of government, the security fence, and military conduct in the face of terrorist attacks.

Nearly two years in the making, “The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost” is produced by Gloria Greenfield and Michael Yohay, the principals of Doc Emet Productions. Together, Greenfield and Yohay bring 50 years of film production and marketing experience to the project.

Yohay has produced 16 award-winning films, including the 2004 documentary Blue & White Operation, about the return of kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Yohay directed the Film and News Production Branch in the Spokespersons’ Division of the Israel Defense Forces from 1993 to 2005.

Prior to his work for the IDF, he served as film director of El Al Airline’s educational branch, as well as freelance film director for Israel’s national television station.

Greenfield brings over 30 years of strategic planning, marketing, program management and publishing experience in the corporate world to her current work dedicated to Jewish education, identity and Israel engagement. Her career has ranged from strategic planning and marketing management in Digital Equipment Corporation’s Customer Services division in the 1980s, to Executive Director of The David Project, where she broadened the organization’s mission to focus on Jewish leadership development, launched groundbreaking Israel advocacy programs for American students in Israel and enhanced the professionalism of all aspects of the organizations’ operations.

The documentary is currently screening at film festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Israel. DVDs are available for purchase at the film’s website www.thecaseforisrael.com, which includes articles by Alan Dershowitz and other distinguished conversants that develop the themes in the documentary.