Finding Space To Dissent From Israel’s Wartime Narrative

Finding Space To Dissent From Israel’s Wartime Narrative

“After 10 p.m., we weren’t allowed to go outside. It seemed as though the men’s quarters became an insane asylum. Loud screams echoed from the rooms and the corridors were permeated with the stench of urine.”  These words are narrated by Hillel Ben-Zeev Perlov in “Shivtown,” his short documentary film about the three years, starting in 2014, that he served as a conscript in the Israeli army. Perlov spent that time in the desert of southern Israe…