Valley of Strength (Gei Oni)

“In the late nineteenth century, Fania (Tamar Alkan), a shy but beautiful mother with a baby, arrives in Jaffa in Palestine from Russia in search of a new life. Since her parents were all killed in a pogrom, she is traveling with her uncle and traumatized brother. They are able to stay at an inn thanks to a charity program. However, when Fania's uncle can't find work, they are left without many options.

The Jews believe that God works in strange and surprising ways. At the inn, Yechiel (Zion Ashkenazi), a widower with two children, is very much taken by Fania. In an act of boldness, he asks her to marry him and come away with him to northern Palestine where he lives in a Jewish community trying to cultivate the rocky land they purchased from local Arabs. She agrees to marry him on” read more