Greece has become a flashpoint for the migrant crisis in Europe over the past year. More than 1 million people illegally crossed into Europe in 2015 alone, with some 800,000 of them arriving via Greece. Most of the migrants were coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq but also from other countries. They are fleeing wars and violence in their home countries in hope for a better future. The situation in Greece has grown complicated following a deal between the EU and Turkey in March 2016 that stipulates all new arrivals to Greece must either apply for asylum in the country or risk being sent back to Turkey. The agreement has caused a bottleneck of people, particularly along the border with Macedonia at a makeshift camp in the village of Idomeni but also in many other places along Greece. Makeshift refugee camps appeared along the country in Piraeus Port, gas stations and abandoned buildings. Greek authorities started establishing camps for the migrants, mostly in military camps, in order to accommodate migrants in those camps. The future of these migrants is unclear, having no home to return to and no place to go. They are dependent on NGOs and volunteers, coming from all over the world, who provide most of their physical needs including tents, food, medicines and physical treatment. Handling Greece migrant crisis, as part of Europe’s migrant crisis, is a great challenge for the entire European community. It touches sensitive nerves and scars from distant dark times in Europe’s history. Time will tell how Europe will handle this crisis, the larger since the days of WWII.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men of the Toldot Aharon Sect celebrate the Purim holiday in the ultra-orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on March 17, 2014. The festival of Purim commemorates the rescue of Jews from a genocide in ancient Persia.

In 2013 elections Yair Lapid, with his new party 'Yesh-Atid' (translated from Hebrew to 'There is future') was the rising star of Israeli politics. Bringing exceptional charisma and tireless campaigning Lapid made it to be the biggest surprise of 2013 elections. After servign as the Minster of Finance for nearly two years Lapid was fired by PM Netanyahu, what led to the general elections of 2015. Lapid has been exhaustively traveling across the country, directly meeting tens of thousands of Israelis. Lapid, a former journalist, author and TV presenter is a master of talking to the media but at the same time he is a master of reaching out to the people. Lapid, who enjoys so much the direct interaction with people, magnetizes them and they love him back. This documentary is a result of following Lapid on the road for three months of his election campaign. בבחירות 2013 היה יאיר לפיד, ביחד עם מפלגת יש עתיד, להפתעת הבחירות ונסק כמטאור בשמי הפוליטיקה הישראלית. עם הצטרפות מפלגתו לממשלה שהוקמה מונה לפיד לתפקיד שר האוצר ותוך שנתיים, כשפוטר מהתפקיד על ידי ראש הממשלה נתניהו, ניתן האות לפירוק הממשלה והקדמת הבחירות. בבחירות 2015 יצא לפיד אל מסע הבחירות כדי להוכיח שהוא ומפלגתו אינם תופעה חולפת ושהם חלק מהמפה הפוליטית הישראלית. לפיד חרש את הארץ באינסוף מפגשים עם ישירים עם עשרות אלפי ישראלים. לפיד, עיתונאי וקריין טלוויזיה מצליח, ניחן בכריזמה יוצאת דופן ויכולת עמידה מול התקשורת. הוא ממגנט אליו את האנשים כשנראה שהוא נהנה לא פחות מהקשר הישיר, והאנשים אוהבים אותו בחזרה. תוצאות הבחירות היו אכזבה ללפיד שנחלש משמעותית בכנסת אך מצד שני קבעו שהוא ומפלגתו אינם תופעה חולפת אלא חלק מהנוף הפוליטי הישראלי.

Operation Pillar of Defense was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in the Gaza Strip from 14 to 21 November 2012. It started with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing ofHamas. The stated aims of the operation were to halt the indiscriminate rocket attacks originating from the Gaza Strip and to disrupt the capabilities of militant organizations. The Israeli government said the operation began in response to Gaza militants' rocket fire, and attacks against Israeli soldiers on the Israel-Gaza border. The IDF stated it targeted more than 1,500 military sites in Gaza Strip. Including rocket launching pads, smuggling tunnels, command centers, weapons manufacturing and storage buildings. Gaza Health officials state that 167 Palestinians had been killed in the conflict by 23 November. Declaring that Jabari's assassination had "opened the gates of hell", the al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad further intensified their rocket attacks on Israeli cities and towns. The Palestinian militant groups fired over 1,456[40] Iranian Fajr-5, Russian Grad rockets, Qassams and mortars into Rishon LeZion,Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon and other population centers; Tel Aviv was hit for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War, and rockets were aimed at Jerusalem. The rockets killed four Israeli civilians and two Israeli soldiers, over 252 Israelis had been physically injured in rocket attacks. Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system had intercepted about 409 rockets. IDF, in preparation for a possible ground operation inside Gaza Strip, has called for dozens of thousands of reservist soldiers. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other Western countries expressed support for Israel's right to defend itself, and/or condemned the Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. On 21 November a ceasefire was announced after days of negotiations between Hamas and Israel mediated by Egypt. Both sides claimed victory.

Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center for Holocaust survivors in Pardes Hanna, Israel, managed by the Israeli Association for Public Health, is a home for about 70 Holocaust survivors. Most of them, who were children during the Holocaust, lost many or all of their family members. Along the years they emigrated to Israel, tried to integrate into the Israeli society and build their new lives but they were driven insane by their childhood experiences, and instead, they ended up in mental institutions. Sixty Five years afer the end of WWII, they are still living the horror. Most of the patients at Shaar Menashe, never established a family and throughout the years, they moved from one mental institution to another. For decades they lived at the edge of Israeli society without any capability of living a normal life. Because of their age, many of them need nursing treatment. They live the horror and inferno as if it happened yesterday, hearing voices, suffering from nightmares, confusing illusions and reality. They spend most of the day staring into the distance, hardly speaking and sometimes mumbling while sucking a single cigarette every hour. The number of Holocaust survivors at Shahar Menashe mental hospital declines each year. Each one of them carries his life story and is a living testimony of the horrors he has experienced. They did survive but their lives actually stopped, 65 years ago, living the memories of their life as they were before the Second World War, combined with illusions and nightmares, traveling between illusions and reality. There are estimated 230,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel today. It is estimated that about 10 percent of them need mental treatment. Most of them don't get it. The story of the Holocaust survivors at Shaar Menashe mental hospital is the story of many other Holocaust survivors. Even those who managed to integrate into society and build new lives carry deep mental scars which can never be healed.

Five year old Betty was born in a poor neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At a very young age Betty was diagnosed to be suffering from a serious congenital heart defect which severely limited her most basic physical activities. Betty was facing a gloomy, short future as her physical condition would deteriorate unless treated. Heart surgery, widely available in Western countries, could save Betty's life but is not available in Ethiopia due to lack of facilities and knowledge. Betty is the only child of Yeshi, a house-keeper and Galana, a policeman. All Yeshi and Galana could do was to hope and dream that one day a miracle will happen and Betty will get the treatment that will save her life. Their prayers were answered by the Israeli based humanitarian organization, Save a Childs Heart ("SACH"). SACH funded the flights to Israel for Betty and her mother Yeshi together with five other Ethiopian children. SACH doctors, surgeons, nurses and volunteers performed the surgeries and cared for rehabilitation accommodation throughout the long months of their stay in Israel and cared for all their needs. There are estimated to be millions of children like Betty, in third world countries, who have no access to the life-saving treatment either because it is not locally available or because it is beyond their parents? financial means. They are all sharing the same dream, asking for the same miracle to happen. Since its establishment in 1995, SACH has saved the lives of nearly two thousand children from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sri-Lanka, China, Jordan, Iraq, Palestinian Authority and other countries. They were all suffering from severe heart defects and had no other hope. For all of them SACH was the last and only hope.

Israeli Settlements - Ongoing Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been for decades at the heart of Israeli Palestinian conflict. The term settlement refers to the Israeli Jewish communities that Israel established after 1967 beyond the Green Line on land occupied in the Six-Day War. During the disengagement program in the summer of 2005, 17 Gaza Strip settlements and four settlements in northern West Bank were dismantled. Today, all settlements are in the West Bank. By the end of 2009 there were 120 official settlements in the West Bank (not including East Jerusalem). 290,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements (according to Central Bureau of Statistics data for 2008). Outposts are, essentially, settlements established by governments of Israel since the 1990s in an unofficial manner. In 1996, the government decided not to build new settlements; but in order to skirt political and international obligations, it established unofficial settlements, calling them "illegal outposts" or "unauthorized outposts." There are estimated 4000 settlers living in outposts. Many of the settlers are Ideological settlers who chose to live in settlements for ideological reasons, to settle the Land of Israel and prevent implementation of a two-state solution. The majority of settlers, however, are "quality-of-life" settlers who came to the settlements for their low housing prices and relatively high quality of life, rather than for ideological reasons. On November, 2009 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month freeze on settlement construction. This decision implies to the construction of new buildings only. Civil Administration sent inspectors to patrol West Bank settlements and enforce the construction freeze orders. Settlers confronted the inspectors in several settlements, trying to prevent them from handing out the construction freeze warrants. Led by settler leaders, a massive public campaign was raised against the government's decision.

Hefer Valley is a rural area located between the coastal Israeli city of Netanya and the Palestinian city of Tul-Karm. 26 years old Israeli Shmulik Botzer is the work manager of a large farm in Hefer Valley. Shmulik is struggling on a daily basis to save the farm from an economical breakdown. 40 years old Palestinian Nazar lives in Tul-Karm, the Palestinian Authority. He is the father of ten children. Nazar is working in Shmulik's farm, together with some other Palestinian workers. Nazar struggles to bring food for his ten children in times of endless curfews and rising poverty in Palestinian Authority In order to get from Tul-Karm to his work, Nazar has to pass through an Israeli military checkpoint. Nazar holds a working permit allowing him to work in Israel. Most of his Palestinian coworkers don't. The workers in the farm are staying in Israel without legal permission. Therefore they are going back home only once a week, bypassing the military checkpoints in various ways. During the time they are in Israel they are hosted in a large hangar in the farm. They are growing huge fields of wheat, sunflowers and chick-pea. Together they spend their days in the fields, doing intensive physical work. Out there in the fields they find relief from their daily worries and from the political reality. Out there in the fields they are free..

Palestinian protesters confront Israeli Riot Police in the Qalandia checkpoint, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Sunday, June 5, 2011. The Palestinians are marking the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war.

Following their active service, Israeli women, like men, are in theory required to serve up to one month annually in reserve duty. However, in practice only some women, mostly in combat roles, get called for active reserve duty, and only for a few years following their active service, with many exit points (e.g., pregnancy). During their reserve service women are having training periods as well as operational activity across Israeli borders and in the West Bank. They serve together with men soldiers, in mixed units, sharing the same tasks and activities. Women integration in reserve duty is a major social change in Israel as reserve duty was for generations men's territory.

System Ali is a Hip-Hop ensemble of young Jewish and Palestinian Israelis, based in Jaffa, Israel. Their songs are in four languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and English. In their texts they protest against Arab houses demolition in Jaffa and against discrimination that led to poverty and crime in their neighborhoods. The band was founded in 2006 in a bomb-shelter in Ajami neighborhood in the city of Jaffa. Its 11 members - M.Cs and musicians - bring to stage the rich, charged encounters and clashes between languages, musical styles, personal stories and inspirations - drawn from the every day realities in the city of Jaffa. These are the fuel of the band's creation and strength, establishing itself as the leading Hip-Hop crew of Jaffa and South Tel-Aviv

More than a million Brazilians took to the streets a year ago to protest government spending on the tournament. The country's economy has slowed to a crawl and public education and health care lag behind those of industrialized nations. Polls show that most Brazilians think hosting the World Cup was a bad idea.