True Story of Palestine

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Poster for the documentary feature directed by Uri Zohar, Joel Silberg and Nathan Axelrod

The film was produced by [Axelrod's] Carmel Films and A. Deshe (Pashanel), based on the Carmel documentaries, weekly news reels running from the 1930's up to the first Independence Day in 1949 

The choice of clips presented the story of the Yishuv in a comic-nostalgic fashion

The narration was written by Haim Hefer and narrated by Haim Topol

The soundtrack was written and conducted by Yitzhak Gratziani

The name of the film: Etz O Palestine was derived from the British-Mandate era slang term for "heads or tails"

Source: Kedem