Birth of a Conflict

The Mandate is a 3 part documentary that will shed new and surprising light on one of most forgotten period in Israel's history - The British Mandate. The 30 years of British rule in Palestine, where in fact, the most decisive in forming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the modern Middle-East. The series encounter Jewish, Arab and British scholars, who try, for the first time, understanding and agreeing on the answer to the question - How and why started the 100 years old conflict between Jews and Arabs? The historical narrative is brought through secret documents that were only recently revealed. Rare archive footage from the early 20th century and by using a treasure found, in the shape of hundreds of hours of footage from the 1980's series "Pillar of Fire" that include personal interviews with the people who were personally involved in the historical events of the Mandate.