They came with great hopes … from all corners of the earth, Jews poured into Israel after the founding of the state – and be came Israelis. Foreign correspondent Michael Borgstede paints the fascinating portrait of a country that is forced to live with an incredible cultural diversity. He talked to holocaust-survivors and Bedouins, pioneers of the kibbutz-movement, Ethiopians and Arabs, the ultra-orthodox and the secular, female soldiers and new Russian immigrants. What is it like to live in a country in a permanent state of war? How does a state whose founding ideals are shared by an ever-decreasing number of inhabitants manage to function? The thoughtful portrait of a daring experiment.
Michael Borgstede, born in 1976, has been working in Israel since 2003. He lives in Tel Aviv with his Israeli wife and daughter, reporting from there for papers and magazine such as the „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”, „Die Welt”, „Cicero”, „Vanity Fair”, the „Rheinischer Merkur”, and „Park Avenue”. Read more on
www.michaelborgstede.com.
- 60th anniversary of the State of Israel