Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – Abortion in the Holy Land

An incisive exploration of Israel’s abortion regime surfaces how a seemingly liberal, egalitarian process conceals entrenched state, religious, and demographic control over women’s bodies. Tracing policy from the British Mandate through post-Holocaust nation-building, to today’s requirement that women appear before a hospital committee for permission to terminate a pregnancy, this account links expert insight with searing testimony from religious and secular women across generations, who break decades of silence. Scenes from committee hearings, memories of illegal procedures, and revelations of stark economic inequities expose a culture that casts the Jewish womb as a national resource, in a rigorous work honored with Best Research for Documentary Film at the Haifa International Film Festival.