Sallah (Sallah Shabati) [Audio: Hebrew]
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

