Synopsis

The documentary *Tegenlicht* offers a portrait of the lives shared by displaced, radical religious settlers and the original, secular socialist members of the kibbutz. It explores their shared past and differing hopes for the future within a divided Israel preparing to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary. Yaniv, a religious settler, now lives with his wife and four children in Kibbutz Karmya, a few kilometers from the Gaza border. Just three years prior, he was a leader in the Jewish settlement o