Jacques Pradel

Operation Mural is the incredible but true story of the smuggling of 530 Jewish Moroccan children to Israel, under the guise of a holiday trip to Switzerland, in the spring of 1961. Forty-five years after their participation in the clandestine operation, three men return to Casablanca to retrace the unfolding of this humanitarian mission—a precursor to the emigration of 100,000 Moroccan Jews between 1962 and 1964. At the age of 27, David G. Littman, a charming British Jewish man (he looks uncannily like a Scotland Yard bloke summoned from central casting) was recruited to this mission by a humanitarian organization that in fact was a front for Mossad. In the film, the key players relive their undercover activities, in which they were assisted by a dedicated local group of Jewish youth, the Misgeret. Director Yehuda Kaveh uses compelling interviews with Littman and his wife, grown children of Operation Mural, and key Mossad figures to reveal a fascinating chapter in Moroccan Jewish history and Israel’s secret efforts to bring immigrants to a new homeland. (fonte: sfjff.org)… (meer)